What Happened When One Illinois Town Passed Reparations
Louis Weathers, 88, at the home he’s owned for more than 60 years in Evanston, Illinois, on June 23, 2023. (Mustafa Hussain for The Free Press)
Is Evanston a model for the rest of the nation? Or a cautionary tale? A story of idealism meeting reality.
Louis Weathers came into this world 70 years after the Civil War ended, 70 years after slavery was abolished in the United States. And yet in 1935, when his mother went into labor, the local hospital in Evanston, Illinois, wouldn’t admit her because of her skin color. Louis’s father had to drive her two hours to a hospital that would let a black woman g…
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