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.
Chicago suburb set to pay reparations, but not all are so sure
Sophia Tareen
The Associated Press
EVANSTON, Ill. When Teri Murray tried to buy her first home in 1968, searching this leafy college town for the perfect place, she thought she was an ideal candidate: married, steadily employed, ample savings.
But banks rejected her, giving dubious excuses that they had stopped offering loans or the application period had closed.
At 76, Murray now realizes those experiences were common for Black residents like her who faced decades of racist housing practices designed to stymie homeownership or force them to live in certain areas.