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'El Chapo" is the New Al Capone

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    Authorities in Chicago are naming a drug kingpin in Mexico as the city's Public Enemy #1 — a label first given to gangster Al Capone and one that ha...

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Al Capone strained his arrival from Chicago and the crowd is watching to get a glimpse of the next big shot.

That's -- -- is waiting to take him to prison.

And the -- is still supporting his big white hat which will probably be all out of style when he gets a chance to Wear it again.

At the end of mystic Apollo landings last glimpse of the outside world for many -- -- to come.

That was Chicago in the 1930s.

Al Capone was officially public enemy number one.

The city was overrun by mob crime until Capone was caught -- ship docked Al contrasts.

And now for the first time since prohibition.

Chicago has declared a new public enemy number one.

Mike -- live in Chicago after -- night.

I you know making you can't avoid it when you hear that title public enemy number one it draws to -- all the images of the old Chicago mob.

Al Capone known for his ruthlessness therefore the ability to control the cops and control networks of rum runners coming down from Canada.

-- -- and a terrific street battles in the effort to ultimately take Al Capone down.

Well now the Chicago crime commission says there is a new public enemy number one the head of a cartel out of Mexico.

Joaquin Guzman low -- described as vicious.

Evil and powerful the crime commission says Guzman and his Sinaloa Cartel make Al Capone look like an amateur.

In Chicago alone over ninety per -- of the marijuana.

Cocaine.

Heroin.

Meth amphetamines.

And other synthetic drugs that are being sold on the streets while we are standing here.

Have come from the Sinaloa Cartel.

Now you may know that Chicago has a terrific problem with street gangs and violence murders are part of every day on the south and west side.

Well they DEA says they are now -- link they say the Sinaloa Cartel has found willing business partners among the hundreds of thousands of members of Chicago street gangs.

So why Chicago for the same reason the rum runners chose it for the same reason the stockyards were located here for the same reason so many businesses -- option in Chicago.

It's a perfect transportation -- and that means to you this through the drugs -- -- show up on your street ultimately.

Flow through Chicago the Mexican not authorities are offering two million dollar reward the US five million dollar reward.