Gang History
Chicago Gangs: America's Gang Capital
The complete history of Chicago's gang wars — Gangster Disciples Vice Lords Black P Stones Latin Kings Folk Nation People Nation and drill music.
Gang History
Gang History
Chief Keef and Drill Music: When Chicago's Violence Got a Soundtrack
Chief Keef recorded "I Don't Like" on house arrest at 16 in a South Side basement — by spring Kanye had remixed it and drill music had named a global genre.
Gang History
Folk Nation vs People Nation: Chicago's Gang Alliance System
Folk Nation and People Nation weren't born on the streets — they were built inside Illinois state prisons by rival gang leaders who needed a way to manage violence in lockup.
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The Latin Kings in Chicago
The Latin Kings formed in Humboldt Park in the 1950s among Puerto Rican migrants displaced by urban renewal — one of the oldest Latino gangs in the United States.
Gang History
The Vice Lords: Chicago's Oldest Street Gang
The Vice Lords formed in 1958 in a juvenile detention facility ran restaurants on federal grants in the 1960s and went back to gang violence when the funding was cut.
Gang History
The Black P Stones: From Community Group to Criminal Enterprise
Jeff Fort turned the Blackstone Rangers from a War on Poverty grant recipient into a gang convicted of negotiating terrorist attacks with Muammar Gaddafi's Libya.
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The Gangster Disciples: Larry Hoover's Empire
Larry Hoover ran the Gangster Disciples — 30000 members and $100 million in annual drug revenue — from inside Illinois state prison for two decades.
Gang History
LA Gangs: The War That Defined a City
The complete history of the Crips Bloods Tookie Williams the 1992 truce and Suge Knight — the gang war that shaped South Central Los Angeles.
Gang History
Suge Knight and Death Row Records: Where Gangbanging Met the Music Industry
Suge Knight ran Death Row Records like a Bloods gang operation — produced platinum albums used physical intimidation as contract law and ended with Tupac dead and 28 years in prison.
Gang History
Rodney King and the Gang Truce That Almost Worked
The Watts gang truce was signed three days before the Rodney King verdict — and cut gang homicides 44 percent before the city refused to fund what peace required.
Gang History
Tookie Williams: Crip Founder Death Row Author Executed
Tookie Williams co-founded the Crips at 17 spent 24 years on death row writing children's books against gang violence and was executed in 2005 maintaining his innocence.
Gang History
The Crip-Blood War: Decades of Death on LA Streets
Between 1972 and 2000 gang violence claimed 15000 lives in LA County — and many of those killings were Crips fighting other Crips.