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Northwestern University and Evanston's Only Daily News Source Since 1881

The Daily Northwestern

Northwestern University and Evanston's Only Daily News Source Since 1881

The Daily Northwestern


A drawing of a Black person’s hand holding a scale, with a house on one side and cash on the other. Text at the top says The Fight For Reparations.

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

March 12, 2021

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...

A digital illustration of a white hand and a black hand holding a beige piece of paper, against a blue-grey background

Over 140 residents to apply for restorative housing program, eligibility survey says

February 26, 2021

Of the nearly 200 residents who completed the city’s reparations eligibility survey, 144 indicated they would be interested in applying for Evanston’s restorative housing program, CMO Management Analyst...

The city’s reparation subcommittee met Friday to discuss a new reparations survey.

Reparations subcommittee reviews new eligibility survey

January 24, 2021

A city reparations survey to determine resident eligibility will soon be sent out, aldermen said at a reparations subcommittee meeting Friday. The subcommittee reviewed a city-developed survey, which...

Ald. Robin Rue Simmons (5th). Simmons participated in a conversation surrounding racial healing and reparations on Tuesday.

City: Black residents may be eligible for up to $25,000 in housing assistance as part of reparations fund

November 24, 2020

Some Black Evanston residents may soon be able to receive up to $25,000 in homeownership assistance as part of the Restorative Housing Reparations initiative within Evanston’s larger plan for reparations,...

Downtown Evanston. A recent study shows that gentrification hasn’t affected Evanston, but some residents disagree.

Study says gentrification in Evanston does not exist, though residents think otherwise

April 19, 2019

According to a recent study by the National Community Reinvestment Coalition, no area in Evanston has experienced gentrification between 2000 and 2013. The study considered neighborhoods gentrified,...

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