In Focus: With the eyes of a nation on Evanston, the first step of the historic reparations program faces pushback

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In Focus: With the eyes of a nation on Evanston, the first step of the historic reparations program faces pushback

On a December day in 2019, hundreds of Evanston residents sang, cheered and cried together in the pews of the First Church of God in celebration of the first funded Black reparations program in the city — and in American history. “It was a special moment for our city,” said Ald. Robin Rue Simmons (5th),...

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