The resolution also urges "the prompt and unhindered restitution" of cultural items — including artworks, monuments, museum pieces, documents and national archives — to their countries of origin without charge.

Rep. Shri Thanedar introduced a federal reparations bill to create a commission studying land distribution for descendants of slaves, though it faces steep obstacles to becoming law.

Two years after naming Carla Kupe as chief equity officer and charging her with overseeing the work of a $500,000 reparations task force, Mayor Brandon Johnson is launching a public engagement effort to “gather lived experiences of harm of Black Chicagoans.