Part of process included a detailed report compiled by historians Dino Robinson, Jr., executive director of Shorefront Legacy Center, and Jenny Thompson, director of education at Evanston History Center, showing that from the early 1900s to the late 1960s, Evanston’s growing Black community was restricted to living in a neighborhood bordered by the North Shore Canal, the Union Pacific train tracks and Church Street.
Evanston reparations program: When it started, who will benefit, why start with housing
