City of Chicago launches reparations task force

CHICAGO (CBS) — The city of Chicago is taking a major step towards enacting a reparations program as Mayor Brandon Johnson announced a new task force examining how the city can remedy what he calls policies that harmed Black Chicagoans from the slavery era to the present day. How will the money be dispersed, who qualifies, and how will it be funded moving forward? Those are just some of the questions a newly formed task force will tackle as the mayor rolls out his plan two days before the U.S. commemorates the end of slavery this Wednesday, Juneteenth. City of Chicago launches reparations task force 02:12 “It is imperative that it is now the time to deliver good on reparations for the people of Chicago. And particularly Black people in the city of Chicago,” Johnson said.  On the week of Juneteenth, Chicago took its biggest step yet to offer reparations to descendants of enslaved Africans. Mayor Johnson signed an executive order launching a black reparations task force to design what comes next. “We’re gonna invest half a million dollars into the study of restoration and reparations for the city of Chicago. So that we can begin to move in the...