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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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ussanews.com broke the news in on Tuesday, February 10, 2026.
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