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 ...

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 ...

The fate of the country’s first taxpayer-funded reparations program is hanging in the air after the city in question, Evanston, Illinois, defended its program and asked a judge to dismiss a lawsuit ...

A conservative activist group has filed a class action lawsuit against Evanston, Illinois’ reparations program, arguing that its race-based eligibility criteria make it unconstitutional. In 2021, ...

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 reparations program in Evanston, Illinois — designed to hand out $25,000 payments to black residents — is being sued because only black residents were allowed to apply. The Supreme Court’s decision ...

Evanston’s Reparations Committee has delivered more than $5 million in reparation payments to 212 recipients, but committee members discussed Thursday the detriment of low cannabis sales on their ...

EVANSTON, Ill. - Evanston, Illinois, on Monday became the first U.S. city to make reparations available to its Black residents for past discrimination and the lingering effects of slavery. The Chicago ...

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 ...

EVANSTON, Ill. (AP) — Evanston, Illinois, has become the first U.S. city to make reparations available to its Black residents for past discrimination and the lingering effects of slavery. The Chicago ...