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Conservative group files lawsuit over Evanston reparations program

Chicago suburb to pay $25,000 each in reparations to 140 elderly black residents

A city in Illinois is expected to pay 140 mostly elderly black residents $25,000 each in reparations by the end of the year in what they re calling a test run for the whole country.

Looking back at Evanston's historic reparations initiative

Rose Cannon said she still remembers the excitement she felt at an early Evanston town hall on reparations in December 2019.  A few weeks prior, the city had become the first in the country to pass a reparations resolution, which aimed to address the history of opportunity and wealth disparities affecting Black residents. More than.

Chicago siblings each receive $25,000 in reparations

Evanston residents Kenneth Wideman (at left), 77, and Shelia Wideman, 75, are now set to receive the cash - more than two years after their names were randomly selected along with 16 others.

Chicago siblings, 77 and 75, become FIRST in US to get $25,000 reparations in cash each – after their names were plucked from a BINGO CAGE – Investment Watch