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 May 23 lawsuit filed by six descendants of non-Black Evanston residents could prevent the continued implementation of the first reparations program in the U.S. While this is the first court ...

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 ...

The Evanston Reparations Committee announced Thursday that almost $5.2 million has been given to reparations recipients as part of the Restorative Housing Program at a meeting at the ...

You are able to gift 5 more articles this month. Anyone can access the link you share with no account required. Learn more. News that a conservative nonprofit legal group is challenging Evanston, ...

Nearly six months after a nonprofit group filed a lawsuit against the city of Evanston to try to halt its groundbreaking reparations program that attempts to amend for past housing discrimination ...

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 ...

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 had an eventful year in 2024, occasionally making national news. Here’s a recap of the bigger things that occurred. Protests at Northwestern University Waves of pro-Palestinian demonstrations ...