IL HR0292

Declares Illinois should lead on Pan-Africanism, African citizenship, and reparatory justice, and champion the Eighth Pan-African Congress Part 1 (8PAC1) scheduled for Harare, Zimbabwe in September 2023.

Calls on the State of Illinois African Descent-Citizens Reparations Commission (ADCRC) to provide matrilineal and patrilineal DNA testing to Black residents to determine ancestral lineages and territories of origin for potential citizenship in ancestral homelands.

Calls on Illinois to become the first state to conduct a repatriation census in preparation for implementing President Abraham Lincoln's voluntary repatriation program with compensation.

Establishes Illinois's historical connection to Pan-Africanism, including President Lincoln's 1862 repatriation acts, the 1893 Chicago Congress on Africa, and recent reparations initiatives by Illinois residents Robin Rue Simmons and Kamm Howard.

Prioritizes completion of the repatriation census as an immediate state priority.