From Fox News: Evanston, Illinois. will issue $25,000 to 44 residents in reparations payments, the City’s Reparations Committee has announced.
Established in 2019 and approved by the City Council in 2021, the program issues $25,000 direct cash payments to Black residents and descendants of Black residents who lived in Evanston between 1919 and 1969.
Evanston was the first city in the nation to pass a reparations plan, pledging $10 million over a decade to Black residents.
The payments are intended to cover housing expenses, Evanston official Cynthia Vargas told the Chicago Tribune.
The committee already appears to be scrambling to fund their reparations program.
A city memo stated that the fund had received $276,588 from Evanston’s “real estate transfer tax.” In order to keep the fund going, the committee is reportedly also taxing Delta-8 THC cannabis products in the future.
The reparations fund did not receive any philanthropic donations this year as of Jan. 31, so the fund is primarily supported by a cannabis sales tax and real estate tax money, Fox News explained.
Ald. Krissie Harris said, “It’s really important for people to understand we pay as we have the money, and it’s not that we’re withholding from paying everyone. It’s just we have to accumulate the funds to make sure we can pay.”
Evanston’s Reparations Committee announced it will issue reparation payments to 44 additional descendants this summer. https://t.co/86b2ItIDSs
— Chicago Tribune (@chicagotribune) February 9, 2026
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