The issue focused on the court's legal opinion in the case of United States v. Chicago, in which the court held that the city of Chicago was not responsible for the civil rights and civil rights acts of the civil rights movement. The question in the case was whether the city of Chicago was responsible for the civil rights act of 1964, as the city of Chicago was the political unit of the United States.

The issue in the case is that the city of Chicago is a political unit. The city of Chicago