Chicago Suburb Hands Out $25K Cash Payments to 44 Black Residents Through Reparations Program
- Evanston, Illinois, plans to distribute $25,000 cash payments to 44 Black residents or their descendants who faced housing discrimination between 1919 and 1969.
- The Reparations Program, established in 2019 and approved in 2021, pledges $10 million over 10 years and is funded by a real estate transfer tax and a cannabis sales tax.
- The payments are intended to help recipients with housing expenses, and recipients will be directly notified about their payments.
- Judicial Watch filed a lawsuit claiming the program violates the 14th Amendment's Equal Protection clause due to its race-based eligibility requirements.
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'Solely on the basis of race': White-majority Chicago suburb sparks outcry with $25K payments to some black residents
A white-majority Chicago suburb is preparing to distribute hefty cash payments to dozens of black residents as part of the city's $10 million reparations pledge.Black residents and descendants of black residents who lived in Evanston, Illinois, between 1919 and 1969 are eligible to receive the payments. Evanston plans to pay $25,000 to 44 qualifying black residents.'They are just entirely giving money, usually to black residents solely on the ba…
Illinois: Evanston ‘Reparations Committee’ clears 44 more Black residents for $25K grants amid Judicial Watch lawsuit
The City of Evanston is reportedly moving forward with the next phase of its "restorative justice" initiative. This week, the City’s Reparations Committee announced that 44 additional Black residents have been cleared to receive $25,000 grants, totaling a $1.1 million disbursement aimed at addressing "historical housing discrimination."
Woke Illinois City Hands Out Reparations
The woke Democrat-controlled city of Evanston, Illinois, has begun distributing $25,000 payments to 44 residents as part of its taxpayer-funded reparations initiative. The move was announced by the city’s Reparations Committee. Established in 2019 and approved by the City Council in 2021, the program provides direct cash payments to Black residents and to the descendants […] The post Woke Illinois City Hands Out Reparations appeared first on www…
Illinois City Issues $25,000 in Cash to Black Residents for Reparations
More than a million dollars will soon be doled out to black residents of Evanston, Illinois, under the city’s reparations program. Evanston’s Reparations Committee announced last week that 44 people […] The post Illinois City Issues $25,000 in Cash to Black Residents for Reparations appeared first on The Western Journal.
Chicago suburb reparations committee gives another 44 residents $25k each
Illinois Town Starts Handing Out $25,000 To 44 Black People As A Form Of Reparations
Watch Louder with Crowder every weekday at 11:00 AM Eastern, only on Rumble Premium!How many Black residents in Evanston, Illinois, do you think were slaves? If the answer is close to zero, why were 44 residents given $25,000 as a form of reparations? That is something the city would never be able to answer, but it won’t stop them from giving funds to people based on skin color, despite never being subject to forced labor in their lives.Illinois…
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