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Mayor Biss reviews first Evanston year in State of the City address

Content warning: This article contains mentions of sexual assault.  Mayor Daniel Biss reflected on Evanston’s challenges and accomplishments during the past year at his first address at the annual State of the City Luncheon Friday. “It has been an incredible education, a remarkable journey,” he said. “There have been times of real joy, (and) there. ....

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Evanston Latinos forms to promote equity and inclusion for community

When the COVID-19 pandemic first began, Evanston officials did not release much medical and regulatory information in Spanish. Evanston resident Rebeca Mendoza wanted to address the issue. She translated city COVID-19 information into Spanish and posted it onto a Facebook page. After seeing an outpouring of questions and posts on the page, she formed an. ....

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Chicago suburb could become first city to give reparations to Black residents


Part of the city’s reparations plan is to use funds from a 3 percent tax on marijuana sales to finance a $10 million initiative called the Restorative Housing Reparations program. This would oversee the distribution of $25,000 worth of housing funding per resident.
Should the housing plan pass, it would make Evanston the first city to formally issue reparations to rectify previous discriminatory housing policies.
The option of implementing reparations in the form of government investment was touted during the Black Lives Matter protests in the Summer of 2020 following the police killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis. 
Floyd’s death, a symbol of the centuries of racist policing and law enforcement policies in the U.S., highlighted institutional racism as an insidious and lingering artifact of a time in the country when slavery was legal.  ....

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