Charles Eugene Rhodes v. City of Chicago in Trust for the Use of Schools

JAMESON, Senior District Judge.

This is an appeal from an order granting summary judgment to the defendants-appellees in an action wherein plaintiffs-appellants sought declaratory, injunctive and monetary relief, alleging that the land acquisition policies of the Chicago Board of Education violated plaintiffs’ rights under the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments, as well as under 42 U.S.C. §§ 1981, 1982, 1983, 1985, 3601, 3602, 3603, 3604, 4651 and 4655.

Background

Plaintiffs are eight black homeowners and one white homeowner who resided in a black neighborhood on the South Side of Chicago. In June,…