EVANSTON, Ill. (WBBM NEWSRADIO) -- The city of Evanston is expected to announce Thursday the first people who will benefit from a new reparations program for systemic housing discrimination.
Evanston will be awarding 16 people as much as $25,000 each as part of its Reparations Program. The grants are being given out, because of the harm Evanston acknowledges happened over a 50-year period when African-Americans were steered to a specific part of the city.
'Several decades ago, African Americans were redlined to a section of Evanston corresponding roughly to the present day 5th Ward, south of the North Shore Channel and primarily west of Green Bay Road and north of Church Street, according to CBS 2.
The money is expected to be used by the recipients to buy homes or to repair their current homes. The Reparations Program is designed to revitalize, preserve and stabilize Black owner-occupied homes in the northern suburb, and to build the wealth of African-American residents.
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