The city of Evanston, Illinois, is facing a lawsuit over its reparations program, which some are calling “unconstitutional.”
In 2019, Evanston became the first city in the U.S. to introduce a government-funded reparations program for Black residents, both current and former. By 2021, the Evanston City Council had voted 8-1 in favor of a plan to provide $25,000 to eligible Black residents and descendants of those affected by housing discrimination and segregation that occurred between 1919 and 1969.
