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Kyle was able to drive himself to a nearby hospital, where he was treated and sent home with bandaged arm.

The couple's decision to leave the city was accelerated by their concern for five-year old chase and seven-year old Emerson.

The Travis family is part of a trend here in Chicago – on average more than ten thousand African-Americans leave the city every year…And data shows an increase in the number of blacks living in the suburbs. Researchers are beginning to call this migration "black flight."

From 2000 and 2014, just over 200-thousand African-Americans left Chicago, that's roughly one out of every five blacks.

University of Illinois at Chicago urban planning professor Janet Smith says gun violence is a key factor in the migration, especially for families with children.