EVANSTON, IL — The first 16 recipients of the nation’s first municipal reparations program for African Americans were chosen Thursday.
With the drawing of 122 Ping-Pong balls from a brass cage at the Fleetwood-Jourdain Community Center, members of the Evanston City Council’s Reparations Committee established the order in which Black seniors will have the opportunity to receive housing grants of up to $25,000 as part of the city’s Restorative Housing Program.
“Today’s event is more procedural than anything,” committee chair Peter Braithwaite, 2nd Ward alderperson, said ahead of the draw. “That’s just drawing the 16 names, as well as ranking all the other participants within our ancestry category.”
Printed with on each of the balls was a number corresponding with a person verified to be an “ancestor” — a Black resident of Evanston between 1919 and 1969, the half-century period between the City Council’s establishment of a zoning code and adoption of a fair housing ordinance.
The program is the first to be funded by the city’s Reparations Fund, which was established in November 2019 with aldermen’s pledge of the first $10 million in municipal cannabis tax revenue.
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Last year, the City Council allocated $400,000 from the fund toward home-related grants, which can be used to cover mortgages, repairs or improvements. That initial funding is enough for 16 ancestors to receive the maximum grant amount. If all 122 of the people whose numbers drawn do so, the housing program will need to be allocated an additional $2.65 million.
“Today we are drawing all the names of our applicants and we will rank them in an order, right? And so our hope is, that all the first 16 will accept the award and move forward throughout the process. But in the event that, for whatever reason, someone can not take advantage or chooses not to participate, then we know we have a line of people behind them. In addition, I think that it’s critical that we also understand how many people are in this, the 122, and that we’re properly budgeting beyond the 16, and that we will address in future committee meetings,” Braithwaite said.
“So we thought about the most open process that will provide a random selection. We didn’t want to do something that was generated by a computer for fear of criticism,” he said. “But this is what we’re going to do.”
Robin Rue Simmons, who spearheaded passage of the reparations initiative during her term as 5th Ward alderman, drew the first balls from the cage. In remarks ahead of the drawing, the committee member traced the origin of the moment back nearly two decades to the City Council’s passage of a resolution in favor of House Resolution 40, a bill to establish a commission to consider reparations for slavery that was first introduced in 1989.
“To be clear, our call for H.R. 40 has only become more resolute, but we recognize the city of Evanston, Illinois, is also responsible for harm in the Black community,” Rue Simmons said.
“We are moving forward with tangible repair that is within our purview and in direct correlation to the harm enforced by the city of Evanston,” she added. “Today we take an important step in selecting the first reparations recipients. We are prioritizing our residents that suffered direct harm: Black residents that lived in Evanston between 1919 and 1969 and suffered from discriminating zoning laws that stripped away wealth and opportunity, like my colleague Mr. Sutton.”
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Carlis Sutton, another appointed committee member, said the city was setting an important precedent.
“Last night I had an opportunity to read over the Constitution of the United States of America. I specialized in three amendments, the 13th, the 14th and the 15th,” said Sutton, a retired Evanston Township High School and Evanston/Skokie School District 65 teacher.
