The kingpin of Chicago wants time to enslave and sell his drugs without interference. A dead criminal is not a drug buyer who dies a slow slave’s death.
Whoever is mayor of Chicago OWNS Illinois the same way Philadelphia owns Pennsylvania (shared with Pittsburgh of course).
Corrupt bigcity politics controls largely rural states. What a shame. But that’s the way Obama and Emmanuel like it as they disparage the “bitter clingers” out in the hinterlands.