Chicago Gang Stats

Latin Mobs

	Started	Colors	2011 population
Ambrose		Black and light blue	600+	Started by a big Polish guy named Don.
Ashland Vikings		Black and green	220+
Bishops		Black and copper	240+	Started by Bobby G. (Gutierrez).
Deuces	1994		370+
Insane Deuces	1968	Black and green	310+ (+ Aurora)	Flipped to Folks 1991. Their chief is Munchkin, who used to sit on the Cobra prison board.
Barons	1959
Blackhawks	1959
Cullerton Deuces	1973	Gray	60+	Flipped to Folks 1994, merged.
Familia Stones		Black and orange	300+
Imperial Gangsters	1971	Black and pink	1100+	Founded by Carlos Quintanilla "Lil Mexico" in 1971, resigned 1976.
Insane Unknowns	1960s	Black and white	120+	Founded by Sinbad, who was Puerto Rican, but was primarily White gang.
Krazy Get Down Boys		Black, purple, and white	90+
La Raza		Green, white, and red	830+
Latin Brothers	1972	Black and purple	140+
Latin Counts	1958	Black and red	590+	Started by Joe the Boxer (Joe Escamilla, b. 1942), then Big Sal, then Lil Sal, then Meme, then Babyface Nelson.
Latin Dragons	1990s	Black and white	330+	Founding members split off from Latin King's Kedzie/Cortez.
Latin Eagles		Black and gray/silver	215+	Founding members split off from Latin King's Montrose/Hazel.
Latino Jivers	1966/67 (Latino Stars)	Black and brown	150+	Turned gang in 1978, ran by Horse 1978-90, Louie B. 1990-95, Carmelo Pedroza 1995-2010/11, then Gary.
Latin Kings	1965	Black and gold	9900+
North side (Imperials)	1954	Maroon		Founded by Ramon Santos at Laflin/Van Buren.
South side - Marshall Blvd	1964	Black and gold		3 sections: Seniors, Juniors, and Littles.
South side - Coulters	1961	Black and orange		Renamed to Coulter Kings from Coulter Counts, 1968.
Latin Lovers	< 1975	Red and yellow	120+	Started by Fox L on 12/12/1977, then Godfather, then shortly ran by Babyface, then Cacu.
Latin Souls	< 1976	Black and maroon	105+
Latin Stylers		Gray and maroon	110+
Maniac Latin Disciples	1968 (Latin Disciples)	Black and light blue	2750+	Founded by Freckles (d. 1997), then Chino D, then General Vic, then Fernie, then Rick Dog, then Pimp Daddy.
Milwaukee Kings		Black and orange	170+	Founded by Shaky.
Orchestra Albany	< 1978	Brown and yellow	230+
Pachucos		Black and white	170+
Party People		Black and white	215+
Party Players		White and maroon	60+
Saints	Rabbi, his brother Monk, and Frank Morfin in 1964/65.	Black and light blue	570+
Satan Disciples	1959	Black and canary yellow	2700+	12 founding members. Ran by King Satan (#2 Canary), then Big Baby D, then Aggie (#2 Godfather, who stepped down after Gizmo was killed).
Spanish Cobras	1961	Black and green	1570+
Spanish 4CH		Black and red	70+
Spanish GDs		Black and light blue	470+	(1,400 in USA). Chiefs were Rudy Rios (d. 11/18/1989), then Rudy Guzman, then Lil Dee, then Spike Rick.
Spanish Lords		Black and red	120+	Started by Cortez, then Curky (d. 1979 in prison), then Rico.
Spanish Vice Lords		Same as Vice Lords	150+
Two Six	1972	Black and tan	2370+
Two Two Boys		Black and blue	150+
YLO Cobras		Same as SCs	240+
YLO Ds		Same as MLDs	190+

Black Mobs

BDs	1960 (Devil Disciples)	Black and blue	4200+	Ran by David Barksdale (1967 - d. 9/2/1974), then Jerome Freeman till April 2000 (d. Jan. 2012), then Marvel Thompson, then Big Law (Lawrence Loggins, d. 2/6/2019), then Kenneth Brown.
Black P. Stone	1959 (Blackstones)	Black, red and green	7700+	Eugene Hairston (Bull), Charles Edwards-Bey, Wesley Brown, Ernest Vaughn, Charles Knox, Henry Cogwell (Mickey), and Jeff Fort.
Black Souls		Black and white	1100+	Started by King Wee (Horace Willis, b. ~1950) who was a Vice Lord, died 1969, then ran by William Weaver, then Sam McKay, then Jack Bobo (Wayne Edwards, 1980s), then Ice man (Willie Jones, d. 2011).
GDs	1964	Black and blue	10000+
Mickey Cobras	(Egyptian Cobras)	Black, red, and green	1300+	Walter Caffey, then Henry Ponder (#2 Buck Ferguson 1968), then Cogwell. Every July 27 party near Fuller Park, 45th/Princeton. #2 in 2008 was Malik Ousley.
New Breeds	1984 at Kildare/Wilcox	Black and blue	1740+	Ran by Boonie Black, (with Jeepers as his advisor, who died at 97), then his nephew Marcellus (Boyce).
Conservative Vice Lords	1958 (14th street Clovers)	Black and gold	3700+	Founded by Pep (Edward Perry, b. 1939) with Leonard Calloway #2, then ran by Alfonso Alford (late '60s), then Bobby Gore in the '70s (#2 leader Sam Mahdi, #3 leader Minister Rico), then Minister Rico in the '80s (#2 leader Pierre (Elbert Mahoney, d. 2000), then Kenny Shannon). Headquartered 16th/Pulaski.
Cicero Insane Vice Lords	Chicago/Cicero	Black and gold	470+	Started by AJ.
Mafia Insane Vice Lords	Central/Jackson	Black, gold, and blue	1250+	Started by King Troy, the #3 CIVL, on 11/1/1990. 7 founding members, 5 in prison, 2 on street.
Imperial Insane Vice Lords	Division/Wolcott	Black and gold	250+	Started by Don Sid (Sidney Hughes) in 1972, then DJ, then Nathaniel Hoskins (b. 1968) since 2010.
Renegade Vice Lords	Henry Horner Homes	Black and gold	100+	Started by Nooney in 1965, then Gator.
Traveling Vice Lords	California/Flournoy	Black and gold	3540+	Started by CW in 1963 (#2 Antoine Miller) till 1973, then Rabbit (#2 Spanky, then Dickie) till 1978, then King Neal till 1986, then Bay-Bay (Andrew Patterson) for 1 faction, Bo Diddley for another. After Bay Bay, was Fatman.
Undertaker Vice Lords	Jackson/Cicero	Black and gold	200+	Started by Highneath before 1973. Prince is Waho.
Unknown Vice Lords	N/A	Black and gold	1230+	Started by Willie Lloyd in 1970, then led by Tyrone Williams (Baby Ty) in summer 1988, (#2 Rio).
4 Corner Hustlers		Black, gold, and red	6500+	Started by Walter Wheat, a Unknown Vice Lord, in 1972, then ran by Monroe Banks 1986-8/16/1991, then Angelo Roberts (who ordered Wheat dead), then Ray Longstreet, then Shaky Shawn (Raymond Betts).

Vice Lords splintered into subnations after Bobby Gore stepped down. Sam Mahdi is also known as King Solomon.

Egyptian Cobras colors were green and brown.

White Mobs

Gaylords	1952	Black and light blue	210+
Simon City Royals	1969	Black and blue, blue and green	360+

Mixed Mobs

Harrison Gents

Black and purple

240+

Ran by Coco 1980 to 1998.

Set informations

Ambrose.
Started at Taylor/Western, then moved to Dvorak Park.
2nd sect 18th/Throop, 3rd Hoyne, 4th Wood, 5th Jefferson.
The 2nd sect 18th/Throop started because their only sect was having around 60-70 members.

IGs.
Headquarters sect, current: Armitage/St. Louis
Headquarters sect, former: Kimball/Cortland.
Note: IGs are a merge of 2 gangs: Imperial Spanish Gangsters (Division/Grand) and Imperial Gangsters (Armitage-Palmer/Drake), and then when they merged, ISG dropped the S.
Armitage/Drake founding members (1969): Lil Mexico, Goyo, Pito, Jabar, Lil Bug (Jesse Rodriguez), and Killer.
Division/Grand 1972 members: Spanky, Tito, Godfather, Tiny, Casanova, Jauquin, Mr. Doc, Mad Dog, Cisco, Secret Squirrel James, Caveman, Lil Man, Alberto, Tomo, Modesto, Fingers, Lil Joe, Miguel (Chulito), and White Boy.

IUKs.
Started at McLean and Hoyne (As Unknown Souls).

La Razas.
1st sect: 19th/Carpenter.

Latin Counts.
Headquarters sect: 17th/Laflin.
Started as 6 White guys and 12-15 Mexicans. Founding members include Papa Joe, Knotch, Yo-yo (Frank Montoya), Rich Cervantes, Tony Lopez.
Originall called Sons of Mexico City, and it was Ed Anton's idea to be renamed Latin Counts. Some of the Sons of Mexico City split off to start the Spartans.

Latin Eagles.
1st sect: Wilton/Grace.

Latin Kings - North side.
1st sect: Laflin/Van Buren.
Started as a group of 3 people, then became 5.

Latin Kings - South side.
Seniors was started by DJ and Genaro (both Puerto Rican), Juniors was started by twin Mexican brothers Dan and Don Villanueva, and Littles was started by Boogaloo (Cuban, d. 1971) and White Sal (Mexican). DJ died in 2020.

Coulter Kings founding members: Started in 1961 by Sexy (Freddy Fernandez), Dino (Hector Pagan b. 1947, 1st to go to prison for murder), Shy Kid (1st to die, killed by Chancellors under the El), Bull (Abel Torres, b. June 5, 1951, 2nd to die), Bronze Boy and Butterfly were twins, Egor, Sippie, Flaco, Wino, Pretty boy, Papo, Charlie, Galetti, Curly, and Wolfy (b. 1951 who flipped to the Ambrose).

Sexy and Chopper (b. 1955) were originally Spanish Chancellors. Some senior members include Beretta, Big Deadeye (Joe Fabian), Barron (Danny Broughton, b. 1950-51), Jesus Melero (b. 1952-53), Chewy (b. 1953-54), and Fish (Edwin Miranda, 10/31/1953-11/30/2015 who was Puerto Rican). There was also Aggie (b. 1955, who flipped to Villa Lobos) and Scarface (Eddie Roncone 7/19/1957-1/26/2018). Shy Kid was the 1st to die, Bull was the 2nd to die (18, 12/8/1969), Butterfly was the 3rd to die (Robert Del Bosque, 21, 8/31/1974). However, there was a 2nd Bull that left the Coulters around 1973 (Jerry Melendez, who was originally a Spanish Chancellor). Big Deadeye (Joe Fabian, d. 2019) was the 2nd to go to prison for murder, for killing a Rampant.

Latin Lovers.
1st sect: Richmond/Dickens.

MLDs.
1st sect: Rockwell/Potomac "Twilight."
New headquarter sect: Talman/Wabansia.
9 founding members were Freckles b. 1956, "Hitler" b. 1954, Savage, Leprechaun, Clyde, Shank, Tarzan, Tony Dons, and Deadeye.

Milwaukee Kings.
Motherland: Huron/Noble.

OAs.
Headquarters sect: Lyndale/Sacramento.

Saints.
1960s members include Rabbi (Rich), his brother Monk, Frank Morfin, Butcher, Professor, Tony Vasquez, Wando, Grasshopper, Little El Cool (Bobby Sanchez), Spook (Joseph Pietryzyk), Paul de la Garza, Carlos Gonzalez, and Pat Ramos.
Started at Davis Square Park, renamed to 45th/Hermitage, then moved to 45th/Wood late '80s.

SDs.
1st sect: Taylor/Racine, which closed when UIC formed. Split into 2 sections: 18th/California, and 18th/Oakley.

Spanish Cobras.
Headquarters sect: Division/Maplewood (Maplewood/Potomac).
1st sect: Springfield/Hirsch (1961), then migrated to Harding, then Thomas/Ridgeway, then Artesian/Potomac.
2nd sect: Haddon/Washtenaw.

SGDs.
1st South side sect: 88th/Houston.
1st North side sect: Rosemont/Broadway, then Broadway/Cuyler, then St. Louis/Ainslie (shared with GDs), then Sunnyside/Kimball.

Two-Sixers.
Started in 1971 as a baseball and basketball team by a lady Ambrose at McCormick School, then transformed into a gang by Armando Espinoza, after him came Alfonso, then David.
Some of the founding members of the baseball team were founder Linda, Carmello, Carmello's sister, Stretch, Fish, Josie, Chris Branch, and Miriam.
Some of the founding members of the gang were founder Armando Espinoza, Junior, Chief, Carmelo, Fish, and Rabbit.
Some of their senior members were David Avalos who joined in their 2nd or 3rd year.

BDs.
Originally started in West side by Richard Strong, then moved to 53rd/Kimbark.

Black P. Stones.
1st sect: 65th/Blackstone (from 63rd to 67th), 2nd sect 46th/Cottage Grove.
When 39th/Drexel opened up "the Fort" it was a merge of 65th/Blackstone and 46th/Cottage Grove.
Oldest sects: a tie between 3: 62nd/Kimbark "Crank Town," Ancient Tank City, and 39th/Lake Park "Pyramid City."

GDs.
1st sect: 68th/Green.
2nd sect: 64th/Halsted.

Vice Lords.
1st White to join: David Dawley.
1st Hispanic to join, came from the Spanish Counts that merged into the Vice Lords.

The 1st 7 Mafia Vice Lords: group of 5 in Graham prison were King Troy, Derrick Griffin (Skullbone), Pookie. The 2 in the streets were Goob and Jamie Silas (Jello).
Who did King Troy get permission from, to branch off? Not from the Cicero VLs. He got permission from Bobby Gore and Willie Lloyd.

Gaylords.
Motherland: Ohio/Noble.

Simon City Royals.
Started at Irving Park and Ashland, a 1969 merge of Simon City (Drake/Wabansia, black and white, started 1952) and Ashland Royals (started 1968 as 7 members, black and columbia blue).
In 1969, 1 of their prime members, Arab, came back from Vietnam and moved his operation to Lakeview area where he tried to call it Simon City North, but the Ashland Royals he had just merged with didn't want, hence SCR. However, not all of Drake/Wabansia wanted to merge, so that section was still around as a standalone. After Arab died in 1974, Mike Brewer changed the colors to black and royal blue.

Former Gangs

	Started	Colors
Baby Tokers	Early '70s	Brown and green	Originally 19th/Paulina, then moved west towards Wolcott. Turned Bishops and Counts in the '80s. Brown and green were the colors of weed, because they were always "toking" up. Chief was Wino.
Bishops	1920s	Black and blue	92nd/Commercial. Imperial Bishops, they died in the early '70s, the last chief was Rocky Hinojosa, who later died of an overdose. Some turned Kings. There were no Puerto Ricans in the gang, and did not start out as a White gang. No allies.
Bush Nation		No colors	89th street South Chicago, led by Roy Cortez who turned King in prison early 1980s.
Campbell/Boys, Insane		Maroon and gold	Turned Cobras mid-2000s.
Campbell/Boys, Maniac		Maroon and gold	Turned MLDs 2004.
Chancellors	18th.	Black and white
Chi-West		Light blue	Chicago and Western. Their symbol was a skunk.
Coulter Counts		Black and orange	Started by Sexy in 1961. 24th/Hoyne/Coulter. Renamed to Coulter Kings.
Crusaders		Dark blue	~25
Devious Ones		Purple and gold	~30, turned mostly Homan and Albany kings mid-1990s, their leader turned 52nd/Talman king.
Emerald Knights	< 1970		Predominantly Puerto Rican, fought the Devil Disciples 55th/Halsted area. Village Sharks were older.
Fairfield Boys			Gage Park, kicked out, turned extinct around 2005.
Fillmore Boys			Turned Coulters.
Guess Boys		Blue and gold	Gage Park, leader was Freaky (Lupe). Majority got heavy into drugs.
Haddon Boys	1963/64	Green and white	80-90% turned Cobras around 1980/81, some turned Warlords. By 1969, had 25.
Kool Gang		Black and white	Didn't recruit, died off.
Laflin Lovers	~1975	Black and orange	Started by Gato (Felix) who now works as a CTA bus driver. Old ones died off, 1992, young ones turned Counts and Bishops. 1990 had around 35-40 members, most ever had was 50.
Latin Pimps	1969-1974, Dean and Paulina.	Blue and pink	Most turned Harrison Gents of Beach/Paulina.
Latin Scorpions	Late '60s	Purple and white	Started by Big Louie, were a party crew, turned MLDs around 1974.
Los Chingones	Early '80s	Brown and white	27th/Sawyer, party crew.
Mighty Projects		Black and red	Late '70s Bridgeport from 31st/Halsted to 35th/Morgan, mostly White and PR, only a few were Mexican. Leader was Birdman.
Morgan Deuces	< 1958	Black and purple	Founding members came from Brownsville, Texas. Started at Van Buren and Morgan. 1978 leader was Popo.
Night Crew	1976	Gray and white	45th/McDowell. Died 1990s.
Party Gents		Black and maroon	Turned Kings. ~80% turned 28th/Christiana Kings. Leader was Shaggy.
Racine Boys		Navy and light blue
Rampants	< 1969	Black and gray	North of 18th/Blue Island area, turned Kings and Ambrose. ~50.
Rampants			Were on Oakley, turned SDs early '70s.
Ridgeway Lords	< 1966	Black and dark blue	Started by Huddi, 1st sect 27th and Ridgeway.
Royal Knights		Black and mustard yellow	A majority Puerto Rican gang. They had a younger branch Midget Knights, that mosly turned SGDs in South Chicago.
Saints		Black and yellow	87th/Houston, their sweaters were brown and yellow. Symbol was a red devil. Died in the '70s, few were Puerto Ricans.
Sin City Boys	Late '60s.	Black and navy blue	Started at 27th and Springfield.
Spanish Chancellors	28th/Wallace.	Black and light blue	Half of them turned 27th/Normal Kings, half died out.
Spanish Kings		Black and maroon	84th street, turned Latin Kings.
Spartans		Gray and blue	West Pilsen, their founding members were split off from the Sons of Mexico City.
Stone Kents		Black and gray	Formerly Artistic Kents, turned Kings, were half Mexican half Puerto Rican.
TAP Boys		Red and white	Chicago Lawn, primarily Arabic.
TNT Boys			Turned Cullerton Deuces, were a party crew.
Taylor Sharks	< 1965
21st Boys	1981	Black and green	21st/Western. When Goyo got out of prison and was cool with BGDs, wanted to turn folks. Most turned Ambrose in the '90s because they hated the Oakley SDs.
VMP	Late '70s	Black and gray	Started by Ambrose from 18th that moved to 86th/Baltimore. Then they turned Ambrose.
Villa Lobos	1967	Black and green	Started at Cullerton and Blue Island, mostly turned Kings by 1979. 1 sect left on 23rd/Trumbull.
Village Sharks		Black and maroon	Turned Latin Souls, 55th/Halsted area.
Bucktown Warlords	1976	Black and orange	Died off in 1985, younger ones turned Kings, mostly Division/Wolcott Kings.
La Familia Warlords	1974		Started by Lord Chief.
Wicker Park Warlords	1964.
Young Bloods	1980s.		Turned King in South Chicago 1990s. Their fathers were Bush nation.

Haddon Boys founding members: Founder, founder's younger brother, Baby, Lefty, Cano, Papo, Papajoe, Raymon, Brillo, Buzzy, and Tacobender. Started from Chopin School.

More Laflin Lovers turned Counts then Bishops. The ones who turned Bishops were Rocco, Chuy, Chato, Omar, and Shorty. (Though Lil Man turned Count, then flipped to Bishop.).

For the Mighty Projects of Bridgeport, most of the Mexican ones turned Kings in 1981, and the Puerto Rican and White ones turned SD in 1988.

Villa Lobos: 1959-64, president Paquito, VP Johnny PR, and Warlords Krazy Hector and Berto.
Villa Lobos: 1967+, president Mousey, VP Cheetah, and Warlords Shark and Roldan. 25 joined in summer of 1967. By 1970, 400 members.

	Started	Colors
Black King Cobras	Pontiac Prison	Gold	But on the streets, started at 41st/Cottage Grove. Rode under Devil Disciples by 1968.
Deacon Stones	By Big Swoll in late '60s, Ohio/Laramie.	Black and red	Then Oscar Lukes, then Lil Swoll with #2 Perry. The 1st gang to have Chicago/Lockwood. Turned Gangster Stones late '80s. Population peaked at least 200.
Del Vikings	By Johnny Johnson <1966, at 36th/State, and #2 Narvel Blackman	Blue	Majority turned GDs, 1977.
Double 6 Kings	1960s, 69th and Normal, led by Charles Atkins.		Turned BPSN in 1969 after May.
Egyptian Warlords		Black and red	Turned Jet Black Stones.
Five Trey Cobras	<1967, 53rd/Halsted.	Black and gold
Goon Squad	1969, at 16th/Kedzie.	Black and purple	Started by Rabbi, and his #2 Rusty (Steve Bailey), turned New Breeds 1987.
High Supreme Cobras	<1966, at 3737 S. Federal.	Blue	Allies with Venetian Lords, turned Stones and Cobras.
Imperial Chaplains	<1960 at 16th/Homan area.		Started by Big John b. 1946, and his #2 Jojo Easter. Peak population of ~80. Turned Vice Lords due to the Black Souls, early '70s.
Maniac Cobras	<1971, Fillmore/Springfield.		Turned West side GDs, and some turned CVLs, ~1980.
Renegades	Led by Jerome Freeman.		Turned BDs.
Roman Saints	1960s		Started by Eugene Brown from the Vice Lords.
Royal Family	1972		Started by Roger Collins when he came out of prison. Turned New Breeds in 1991.
Satan Lovers	1960s, 63rd/Laflin, Ogden Park.	Blue	Leader was James Anderson (Satan), turned BPSN around 1968.
Satan Lover Stones		Black and red	Started by Horton, for Chicago between Pulaski and Central.
Soul Brothers			Turned Black Souls.
Tasmanian Devils	<1974, at Robert Taylor Homes	Gold	Died off.
Venetian Lords	<1966, at 3737 S. Federal	Red	Formed to ally against the Del Vikings. Turned Stones.

Del Vikings: Johnny Johnson died, he jumped off at 31st street Beach and landed on rocks, got paralyzed for a few years then died.

Imperial Chaplains: Big John died in 2010 of cancer, Jojo Easter died 2001 of AIDS.

Chicago's 1983 newspaper stated the city had 4,000+ gang members, at 110+ gangs.
However, earlier newspaper August 1978 stated city had 5,000 gang members age 9-40, at 150+ gangs.