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The historian Morris “Dino” Robinson, who helped shape Evanston’s reparations initiative; Louis Weathers, a recipient of the first $25,000 payments; and Robin Rue Simmons, who proposed the idea in 2019 when she was an alderwoman for the city’s fifth ward