Evanston expects to pay $25,000 each to 140 qualifying residents by the end of the year.
from tax cash from legal marijuana sales. When that proved too slow, the council agreed to allot real-estate transfer tax money from properties worth more than $1 million.
Evanston Mayor Daniel Biss said that the city is not concerned over whether reparations are paid out elsewhere, including at the federal level. Evanston Mayor Daniel Biss, pictured, said the city will “move forward” and “continue being that example” not matter what the rest of the US does.Local civil rights activist Bennett Johnson told a recent meeting that the $25,000 was not enough — and the 1969 year cutoff “totally arbitrary” given that black people were “discriminated” against long after that.
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