As Chicago Considers Reparations For Descendants Of Enslaved People, Aldermen Learn From Evanston’s Groundbreaking Program – Block Club Chicago

Kamm Howard, co-chair of the National Coalition of Blacks for Reparations, told the committee reparations were not only meant to be financial, but could redress injuries to Black descendants of enslaved people in other ways. He urged the subcommittee to begin enforcing a 20-year city ordinance that calls on businesses in the city to disclose any past ties to slavery. Championed by former Ald. Dorothy Tillman, the 2002 ordinance requires all companies that do business to disclose if the company profited from slavery in the past.