The Weekly Wrap: Chicago Is Latest City To Study Reparations

This is your first of three free stories this month. Become a free or sustaining member to read unlimited articles, webinars and ebooks. Become A Member Welcome back to The Weekly Wrap, our Friday roundup of stories that explain the problems oppressing people in cities and elevate the solutions bringing us closer to economic, environmental and social justice. If you’re a fan of our news curation and original reporting, consider donating to Next City today. Your support keeps us going! Chicago To Establish Reparations Task Force Chicago became the latest city to launch a reparations task force on Monday. Mayor Brandon Johnson signed an executive order establishing a task force that will study “all policies that have harmed Black Chicagoans from the slavery era to present day” and determine how to redress harms, according to a public statement from the mayor’s office. The executive order comes after the mayor added $500,000 to the latest city budget to study the issue. It also comes as a new study from The New School’s Institute on Race, Power and Political Economy revealed that the median net wealth for Black families in Chicago was $0, compared to $210,000 for white families. The gap is...