Nurse-in' supports right to breast-feed in public

DEKALB — Families rallied outside a shop in the northern Illinois city of DeKalb to protest the owner's asking a mother to stop breast-feeding in his place of business.

Several dozen mothers, fathers and babies gathered for the sidewalk "nurse-in" Thursday outside the No Strings Attached resale store.

Twenty-one-year-old Nichole Eidsmoe of DeKalb says she was breast-feeding her 11-month-old daughter Tuesday at the shop when the owner asked her to stop or leave.

Store owner John Rapp says he told Eidsmoe to cover herself or go somewhere private to nurse the baby.

John Farrell of the DeKalb County State's Attorney's Office says a 2004 Illinois law protects a mother's right to breast-feed in any place where she's otherwise authorized to be, including a store