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Chicago Suburb Approves $10 Million Reparations Program Funded by Marijuana Tax Revenue

Chicago Suburb Approves $10 Million Reparations Program Funded by Marijuana Tax Revenue
A slavery reparations protest outside New York Life Insurance Company offices in New York City on Aug. 9, 2002. Mario Tama/Getty Images
Tom Ozimek
Tom Ozimek
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3/23/2021|Updated: 3/23/2021

Officials in a Chicago suburb on Monday approved a first-of-its-kind reparations program that will provide housing grants to black residents as compensation for past municipal segregationist policies, with the money coming from donations and tax revenues from sales of recreational marijuana.

City Council members in Evanston, Illinois, voted 8–1 to adopt the “Local Reparations Restorative Housing Program and Program Budget” resolution, setting in motion an initiative first approved in 2019 and that some argue could serve as a reparations template elsewhere in America.
Tom Ozimek
Tom Ozimek
Reporter
Tom Ozimek is a senior reporter for The Epoch Times. He has a broad background in journalism, deposit insurance, marketing and communications, and adult education.
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