Outlaw Bloods

The Outlaw Bloods were born out of the Vietnamese community in the Uptown neighborhood.  In the 1970s southeast Asian immigrants migrated to the area of Argyle Street between Leland and Sheridan.  By the mid-1970s this area became known as Vietnamese Town and by the late 1970s this part of Argyle was lined with Vietnamese businesses.  Combodian refugees were also brought to this neighborhood starting in the mid-1970s due to the end of the Vietnam war.  In 1983, a Cambodian gang had formed at Leland and Sheridan known as the Loco Boys that defended the area against attacks from outside gangs from Uptown.  These youths tangled with Brazers, Black Gangster Disciples and Spanish Gangster Disciples.  The Loco Boys were not Vietnamese, they were Cambodian even though they were in a mostly Vietnamese area of Uptown.  The Spanish Gangster Disciples had just arrived in Uptown in 1983 and were aggressively gangbanging through Uptown.  The Brazers arrived in the early 1980s but didn’t start getting big and aggressive until 1983 and this is when the Loco Boys needed to form to protect Little Vietnam.  Their main intersection was Sheridan and Leland and the area around up to Broadway Street and south to Argyle became Loco Boys turf.

In the year 1987 under the Vietnamese Amerasian Homecoming Act the United States Government continued to settle Vietnamese and Cambodian refugees that were from reeducation camp detainees and Amer-Asians.  As more young Vietnamese and Cambodian teenagers came to Uptown, they soon ran into gangs like Brazers, Black Gangster Disciples and SGDs. Vietnamese and Cambodian teens clashed with the Folks and were often bullied by them.  The Vietnamese youths joined the Flip City Kings while Loco Boys represented the Cambodians. The Flip City Kings were basically a Latin King branch in many ways and/or were heavily supported by the much more powerful Latin King nation and bound by the People alliance since they formed in the same year.  The Loco Boys were not part of People or attached to any greater power and by the late 1980s it was becoming a growing issue.

Among Cambodian refugees came about forty Cambodian refugees that had spent some time in Los Angeles and became connected to or joined the notorious Bloods gang.  The Cambodians were the first Asians in the United States to join the Bloods and now a portion of this original Asian Blood chapter landed in Chicago and hung out with Loco Boys.  These Loco Boys and Los Angeles youths came together in the year 1990 to form the “Outlaw Loco Boys.”

I am not sure of the exact year, but it was by 1992 at the latest, the Outlaw Loco Boys connected with the Black P Stones that were in the Uptown neighborhood.  A business arrangement was made between OLBs and Stones that brought a Los Angeles to Chicago connection between Bloods of Los Angeles and Black P Stones of Chicago.  Black P Stones honored this as did the Bloods and the Outlaw Loco Boys now became the “Outlaw Loco Bloods.” The OLBs would have a dual alliance with Bloods and Black P Stones/People alliance.  The OLBs now became a force to be reckoned with and they were money makers through drug trafficking.

The 1990s was the peak of OLB presence in Uptown as these were the years of the greatest strength.  Flip City Kings were for the Vietnamese while Cambodians joined Outlaw Bloods.  During the early and mid-1990s the OLBs made their most noise until incarceration and retirement became the downfall of OLBs.  In the early to mid-2000s the OLBs became inactive and were no longer on the streets.

Outlaw Bloods 1983-2000s

Broadway to Sheridan, Argyle to Leland