A new report from a blue state’s reparations commission expounded on “nine broad categories of harm” in calling for lawmakers to act.
Part virtue signal and part groundwork for Marxist redistribution of wealth, numerous efforts have remained ongoing across the country at the local, state and national level toward developing metrics and a system by which to facilitate compensating black people for wrongs committed against other black people decades ago and beyond.
To that end, the Illinois African Descent-Citizens Reparations Commission (ADCRC), a state-appointed group, released its 294-page report on Friday titled, “Taking Account: A History of Racial Harms & Injustice Against Black Illinoisans.”
Within the report that contained roughly 50 pages worth of citations, nine categories of harm were listed as, “Enslavement and servitude; racial terror; political disenfranchisement; stolen economic labor; policing and the legal system; housing; education; family; and health.”
“Confronting the truth of our state’s history is a necessary first step toward building a more equitable future,” asserted ADCRC Chair Marvin Slaughter, Jr. in a press release accompanying the report. “By grounding our work in historical evidence and the lived experiences of those who have experienced harm, we are laying the foundation for informed and meaningful reparative action.”
Likewise, University of Illinois Chicago associate professor Dr. Terrion L. Williamson argued, “The idea that racial inequity simply dissolved after the end of formal segregation is a myth.”
“Redlining, chronic school underfunding, discriminatory lending, and over-policing were not isolated injustices. They were policy decisions that structured opportunity along racial lines and continue to shape the experiences of Black residents in Illinois today,” she sent on.
To support the claims, the report details, “Drawing on scholarly analyses, historical archives, government data, and community perspectives, this report describes not only individual harms, but the accumulated impact of harm over generations.”
“Ultimately, it provides an evidence-based accounting of Black life in Illinois that will help to inform the critical debate over how to repair, redress, and ameliorate these lasting harms,” added the report, which relies on citations from the works of individuals like the 1619 Project’s Nikole Hannah-Jones and bestselling author Ta-Nehisi Coates.
As had been reported in February, the Chicago suburb of Evanston, Illinois, which had officially begun its mission of reparations in 2019, had announced another 44 residents were expected to get taxpayer-funded handouts of $25,000 meant to go toward housing expenses. The monies were said to have been collected through the real estate transfer tax and revenue from the sale of cannabis.
Chicago suburb reparations committee gives another 44 residents $25k each https://t.co/2q2fLM7wVA
— BPR (@BIZPACReview) February 11, 2026
Meanwhile, it had also been detailed that Evanston was facing a class action lawsuit over the reparations as Judicial Watch had asserted in a court filing that the handouts were a violation of the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment.
“[T]he program’s use of a race-based eligibility requirement is presumptively unconstitutional, and remedying societal discrimination is not a compelling government interest. Nor has remedying societal discrimination from as many as 105 years ago, or remedying intergenerational discrimination ever been recognized as a compelling government interest,” argued Judicial Watch. “Among the program’s other fatal flaws is that it uses race as a proxy for discrimination without requiring proof of discrimination.”
Native of Brooklyn, NY, Kevin Haggerty is a graduate of Hunter College where he studied Cultural Anthropology and Geography. An avid reader and truth seeker, he currently resides in Texas with his wife and their dog and, when he isn't researching current events and their impacts, you'll find him spending time with friends and family or working on his next novel.
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