Critics say the two mothers are stretching the definition of civil rights too far, and are urging the court to dismiss the case. Either way, the suit is timely: Although Chicago recorded the fewest killings in nearly 50 years in 2013, the homicide rate has since been on the rise, darting up 20 percent in the first half of this year.
Together, they blame the three villages, Lyons, Lincolnwood and Riverdale, for what they call a "flood" of guns into the city.
So black urban crime is now to be blamed on white suburbia. Ok, I get it.