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The first gangs in Chicago were loosely organized groups of European immigrants in the late 1800s. In 1910, Big Jim Colosimo founded the Chicago Outfit on the South Side. In the early 1950s, immigration to Chicago had picked up considerably, namely to the west side and parts of the south side with many coming from Puerto Rico.
In 1969, Larry Hoover, the leader of the rival gang “Gangster Disciples,” agreed to a merger with Barksdale to create a unified gang called the “Black Gangster Disciples Nation.” Soon after the alliance was formed, Larry Hoover and one member were charged and convicted for the murder of another member, and both received a life sentence ...
Five alleged Chicago street gang members have been charged in a racketeering conspiracy accusing them of a pattern of violence that includes the downtown slaying of Chicago rapper FBG Duck last year.
412 people have been murdered in Chicago so far in 2024 but she said less, not more, is being done to curb black-on-black violence. “I can’t even reach nobody at City Hall or anywhere else ...
At least 30 suspected gang members have been arrested by the Chicago Police Department between January 2023 and September of this year, the records show. Chicago cops have busted dozens of Tren de ...
The Four Corner Hustlers (4CH) is an African American street gang founded in the West Garfield Park neighborhood on the West Side of Chicago in the 1960s by Walter Wheat and Freddy Gauge. [1] The Four Corner Hustlers at first were a single gang that would wear the colors black and brown.
1 Chicago Outfit (Al Capone Gang) 2 Valley Gang. 3 Genna Crime Family. 4 North Side Gang. 5 Chicago gang leaders. ... Sam Cardinelli ("Black Hand" gang) Prohibition gangs
A federal jury has convicted six alleged gang members in the 2020 fatal shooting of Chicago rapper FBG Duck, a killing that prosecutors said was part of long-running violence over gang territories ...