A pair of siblings are set to receive $25,000 in reparations cash - as part of the to make financial amends with its black residents.Evanston residents Kenneth Wideman, 77, and Shelia Wideman, 75, are poised to collect the sums in the coming weeks - two years after their names were randomly selected along with 16 others out of a Bingo cage as part of the fledgling program.However, while others received their reparations in a timely manner, the Widemans were somewhat left in the lurch - due to program architects' decision to forgo direct payouts in lieu of grants to address diminished black homeownership.
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