June 23, 2026 Chicago Tonight – Full Episode

The U.S. Department of Justice filed to join an existing lawsuit challenging Evanston's reparations program, which began in 2021.The program aims to provide payments to Black residents and descendants of Black residents who experienced housing discrimination in the city between 1919 and 1969. Cook County has been called the wrongful conviction capital of the country. But who is giving the county this title? In her new book, “Crime Fictions: How Racist Lies Built a System of Mass Wrongful Conviction,” author Nicole Gonzalez Van Cleve tries to answer that. #ChicagoTonightWTTW #WTTWNews