What Happened When Evanston Became America’s First City to Promise Reparations Bloomberg 11 hrs ago Susan Berfield and Jordyn Holman
(Bloomberg Businessweek) Lucious Sutton disconnected the water line, the gas line, and the sewer line for the home he’d built on Bauer Place on the northwestern edge of Evanston. He and his brothers removed the appliances and the furniture. They secured the windows. Then he watched as men he didn’t know maybe they worked for the city, maybe for a property developer jacked up the wooden house, set it onto a truck, and drove it a mile-and-a-half to the neighborhood the city had deemed more suitable for Black families. A sheriff stood by.