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History of gangs in Humboldt Park. The Chicago neighborhood of Humboldt Park is the founding grounds for several major gangs, including the Latin Kings, Simon City Royals, and Maniac Latin Disciples, among a number of other gangs with active chapters in the area as of 2023. [1][2] With its roots dating back to the 1950s, the continuous presence ...
The gang was founded by Puerto Ricans in Chicago, Illinois, in 1954. [24][25] The Latin Kings are one of the largest Hispanic and Latino street and prison gangs worldwide. [26][27][28] In the United States, the Latin Kings operate under two umbrella factions—the King Motherland Chicago (KMC) faction headquartered in Chicago, and the Bloodline ...
The Folk Nation was formed on November 11, 1978, within the confines of the Stateville Correctional Center. [2] Larry Hoover, the chairman of the Gangster Disciple Nation, created the idea for the alliance and persuaded many leaders of large black, white, and Latino gangs from Chicago to join. Folk Nation was created to protect and counter from ...
Popes (gang) The Almighty Insane Popes Nation is a Chicago, Illinois street gang, formed in the late 1950s on the north side of Chicago, primarily building membership from a Greek greaser gang that hung out at the corner of Lawrence and Rockwell. This small group had problems with the much larger Latin Kings gang on the north side, and so they ...
My Bloody Life: The Making of a Latin King is an autobiography by Reymundo Sanchez (a pseudonym) about his life as a teenage street gang member in Chicago. [1] [2]The author of the book, Reymundo Sanchez, was a lost boy - disowned by physically abusive step-fathers who could not care less about him or his mother.
Young Lords logo on a building wall, December 27, 2003. The Young Lords [a] was a Chicago-based street gang that became a civil rights and human rights organization. [2] [3] The group, most active in the late 1960s and 1970s, aimed to fight for neighborhood empowerment and self-determination for Puerto Rico, Latino, and colonized ("Third World") people.
Chicago Gaylords. The Simon City Royals, also known as the Almighty Simon City Royal Nation, are a street and prison gang which began in Chicago during 1952 as Simon City, a greaser gang. They named themselves for Simons Park, which is located on the corner of Drake and Wabansia in the Humboldt Park neighborhood where they originally formed.
any (multiethnic) Activities. Drug trafficking, robbery, money laundering and murder. Rivals. Folk Nation. The People Nation is an American alliance of street gangs generally associated with the Chicago area. [1] They are rivals of the Folk Nation alliance of gangs.