Chicago takes another baby step toward reparations

Chicago takes another baby step toward reparations

Two years after naming Carla Kupe as chief equity officer and charging her with overseeing the work of a $500,000 reparations task force, Mayor Brandon Johnson is launching a public engagement effort to “gather lived experiences of harm of Black Chicagoans.”

Mayor Brandon Johnson announces launch of Repair Chicago Engagement Series and Survey

The citywide community engagement effort will explore the impacts of systemic discrimination while gathering personal testimonials and resident feedback to inform the Mayor’s Reparations Study.    CHICAGO — Today, Mayor Brandon Johnson announced the launch of Repair Chicago, a citywide community engagement effort designed to explore the impacts of systemic harm faced by Black Chicagoans and devise reparatory pathways. Through bus tours, panel di…