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The Reparations Committee announced that it will deposit the Evanston Reparations Fund into Liberty Bank, one of the largest Black-owned banks in America, at the committee’s Thursday meeting.  Effective immediately, a minimum of $17 million will be deposited.  “Seventeen million dollars in a Black bank is going to give more lending power and access to...

Cities like Evanston, Illinois, and Asheville, North Carolina, are paving the way for local reparations in the absence of a federal plan.

At a new South Evanston business set to open next month, customers will be able to purchase coffee, croissants and cannabis all under one roof. A bakery connected to Evanston’s second dispensary will open mid-February at the corner of Chicago Avenue and Howard Street in a joint venture between OKAY Cannabis and West Town Bakery....

Evanston resident April Fuller went to the Fleetwood-Jourdain Community Center Saturday morning to watch her friend coach a boxing class.  Fuller remained at the community center into the afternoon because she saw the setup for a Martin Luther King Jr. Day event and she felt inclined to stay, she said.  “It’s a day of reflection,”...

The Evanston Reparations Committee determined the order in which direct descendants of residents affected by housing discrimination will receive reparations from the city at a meeting at Evanston Township High School Thursday.  In March 2021, the city passed the Restorative Housing Program to fund home ownership, home improvement and mortgage assistance. Recipients can now choose...

With City Council gearing up for the new year, The Daily takes a look at Evanston’s biggest political stories in 2023. March: City Council expands reparations program, allows for cash payments Evanston became the first city in the U.S. to enact a reparations resolution for Black residents in 2019. The Restorative Housing Program, launched in...

We are experiencing a systematic attack on the truthful telling of history. This should concern us all.

It’s easy for Northwestern students to tell a friend or a family member that they go to school in Chicago. The glamor of the nation’s third-largest city can become a simple shorthand to triangulate NU’s location.  But NU is not in Chicago. It’s in Evanston, a suburb sleepy in some areas and, in others, lively....

Content warning: This story contains mentions of gun violence. The past year in Evanston has been a busy one.  Evanston is more than just Northwestern’s lakeside campus. It’s a suburb that is home to 78,000 people and plenty of issues that make statewide and national headlines. Since the beginning of last academic year, the city...

The most significant change would limit disciplinary confinement to a maximum of 30 days for the most serious offenses.