Mealey's (October 27, 2020, 12:30 PM EDT) -- CHICAGO — Former black franchisees who have sued alleging that McDonald’s has “a decades-long history of racial discrimination” have made only vague claims of practices undermining franchisees that are “illogical” and also “untimely and inconsistent with the plain language of the contracts they signed,” McDonald’s USA LLC and McDonald’s Corp. (together, McDonald’s) argue in a motion to dismiss filed Oct. 23 in a federal court in Illinois (Christine Crawford, et al. v. McDonald’s USA, LLC, et al., No. 20-05132, N.D. Ill.)....