Using that logic, any descendant of an Evanston resident that fought in the Civil War should file a wrongful death suit against the city to attach the reparations.
Since I don’t believe, there weren’t any plantations or slave owners in Illinois, the residents that fought and died in the War were “enslaved” to fight the landowners and slave-owners who benefited from owning slaves.
Further, any person claiming reparations, MUST be able to show a direct line of descendancy from a slave. Any person unable to show direct descendency is precluded from claiming reparations.
That should tie things up in the courts for quite awhile.
There were slave owners in IL. Search “old slave house”. It was the Crenshaw house near Equality.
Actually, there was a Civil War unit that fought for the NORTH in Southern Illinois. Black people.