Chicago Crime Commission

That's a huge part of it.

And the Chicago Crime Commission did this huge update to what they call the gang book in 2018.

What they found was that gangs really did fracture from these old centralized structures into thousands of smaller, what they were calling block-by-block factions.

Okay, right.

And estimates that generated publicity, even though the true size of ownership of the cartel were impossible to audit, came out suggesting he was making billions.

Now, during this same period of time, the Chicago Crime Commission was designating El Chapo as public enemy number one.

They were invoking a label that they once used for Al Capone, and I hope you'll go back to watch my episode on Al Capone sometime.

In fact, I did a great episode on Al Capone on History's Greatest Mysteries, and I hope you'll check that out.

The plates on the automobile are registered to a concern operated by Redacted.

On 8-13-63, Redacted furnished this office a letter addressed to Mr. Redacted, Home Loan Bank of Chicago, 104 South Michigan Avenue, Chicago 3, Illinois, from Virgil W. Peterson, Operating Director, Chicago Crime Commission.

In a letter from the Miami Crime Commission on 8-5-59, it was indicated that a check was being made on the telephone traffic over the telephone of Dave Yaris, a hoodlum originally from Chicago.

at Miami Beach, and that a call had been placed to Long Beach 1-3010 Chicago, which checked out to Redacted Chicago.

It was previously reported.

that according to the records of the Chicago Crime Commission, Leonard Patrick, Dave Yaris, and Joe Massey, M-A-S-S-E-I, had an interest in the Sans Souci gambling establishment at Havana, Cuba in 1953.

All review of Miami references on the Sans Souci gambling club in Havana reflect no information concerning the operation of the Sans Souci gambling club in 1953 by Patrick Yaris and Joe Massey.

Joe Massey is a top hoodlum subject in Miami.

This is episode 17 of season 10, Chicago Rackets.

Capone had been at the Lexington for just three months when he received a curious visitor, Frank Lesch, president of the Chicago Crime Commission.

Lesh came to Capone seeking his help during the fall 1928 elections.

He reminded him of the Pineapple Primary earlier that year and the death and violence that professional terrorists had caused during that mess, skirting around the fact that many of them had been Capone gangsters.

An honest election was bound to fill county offices with anti-Thompson men who would gladly crush Capone if they could.

Well, there's no doubt that vanity played a considerable role in his decision.

He must have been deeply gratified to have the head of the Chicago Crime Commission come to him, hat in hand, to ask for his help.

Capone craved gratitude and admiration no matter where it came from, and continually sought them out with shows of civic spirit or charitable donations.

When Capone left prison in March 1930, new problems awaited him.

He had just been named public enemy number one by the Chicago Crime Commission, but he wanted people to think of him as a good guy.

The country was entering the Depression, so Capone responded, opening Chicago's first soup kitchen, feeding 3,000 hungry people a day.

I wasn't far from El Caponio, roping open this here warehouse on 935 South State Street.