Ann Arbor to pay D.C. firm up to $200K to study reparations Study follows Justice Dept. intervention in similar Illinois programThe city of Ann Arbor will pay between $95,000 and $200,000 to a consultant based in Washington, D.C. for a study of a potential racial reparations program. The Ann Arbor study comes as the federal government has signaled that at least one reparations program in Illinois is likely unconstitutional. The Department of Justice moved to intervene June 16 in a lawsuit that challenges a reparations program by the City of Evanston, IL, about 260 miles away from Ann Arbor. The city of Ann Arbor did not respond to multiple requests for comment.