Welcome to the Reader‘s morning briefing for Monday, January 23, 2016.
Why some Chicagoans are disappointed that “Public Enemy No. 1” El Chapo was extradited to New York
El Chapo Guzmán was the first person since Al Capone to be named “Public Enemy No. 1” by the Chicago Crime Commission. Guzmán’s Sinaloa cartel allegedly wrecked havoc on the streets by “brutally dominating Chicago’s booming narcotics trade—a market that has been linked to the city’s problems of gangs and shootings” and by using the city a distribution center for drugs, according to the New York Times. Authorities in the city who have spent years building a case against the notorious cartel leader were somewhat disappointed when he was extradited to face charges in New York first, but relieved that he was facing the law in the American criminal justice system. “That would be a great thing for Chicago to have this individual brought before a Chicago court, given his history and the atrocities committed here,” Andrew Henning, general counsel for the Chicago Crime Commission, told the newspaper. [New York Times]
