Evanston, Ill., residents Cherylette Hilton, Ron Butler and Kenneth Wideman each received payments under the city's reparations program. EVANSTON, Ill. — Kenneth Wideman has lived in Evanston his ...

A May 23 lawsuit filed by six descendants of non-Black Evanston residents could prevent the continued implementation of the first reparations program in the U.S. While this is the first court ...

A conservative activist group filed a class action lawsuit against a reparations program in Evanston, Illinois, claiming the initiative is unconstitutional because qualification for the program is ...

The Evanston Reparations Committee announced Thursday that almost $5.2 million has been given to reparations recipients as part of the Restorative Housing Program at a meeting at the ...

EVANSTON, Ill. -- Evanston is a Chicago suburb of 75,000 people, and it's about to do something no other city has done in the country: pay reparations to some of its Black residents. "Our goal here in ...

Nearly six months after a nonprofit group filed a lawsuit against the city of Evanston to try to halt its groundbreaking reparations program that attempts to amend for past housing discrimination ...

You are able to gift 5 more articles this month. Anyone can access the link you share with no account required. Learn more. News that a conservative nonprofit legal group is challenging Evanston, ...

University of Illinois professors advocate for collective reparations at Illinois meeting, calling for community payments ...

Evanston had an eventful year in 2024, occasionally making national news. Here’s a recap of the bigger things that occurred. Protests at Northwestern University Waves of pro-Palestinian demonstrations ...

EVANSTON, Ill. — Kenneth Wideman has lived in Evanston his entire life, in a neighborhood bordered by a canal and elevated railroad tracks called the 5th Ward. His parents moved there from South ...