Kool Gang
Kool Gang

Kool Gang

Founded Founded
Affiliations Give details
Colors Black and Grey
Primary ethnicities Latino (Mexican)
Symbols Playboy Bunny
Symbol usage

Playboy bunny with bent ear
Status Extinct
From a 1980s Chicago Police manual, they were already at war with Ambrose at this time even though they were Folks
Old Kool gang tag. Photo image is copywritten and courtesy of Chicagosee. Imagine is available for purchase, perhaps even in photo print. Please contact photogood2@gmail.com for your order.
1970s Kool gang members pictured in front of their tag
1981

I really do not know much about these guys except that they were located in the Pilsen neighborhood in between Ambrose and Bishops territory somewhere on 18th Street. The Kool gang definitely was around by the mid-1970s and they were rivals with gangs that later became part of the People Nation like Villa Lobos and Latin Kings.  The Kool gang went extinct sometime in the later 1980s as many members flipped to Two Six after they may have moved to Little Village.

Please send in 1970s, 1980s, 1990s or 1960s pics if they existed back then!

Questions:

  1.  What exact year did Kool gang start?
  2. What was their first corner and what year was it started?
  3. What was each of their corners and what year did each start and close up?
  4. Who was the founder and what happened to him?
  5. What is the time line of leaders?
  6. What year did Kool Gang go extinct?
  7. Who were the enemies of Kool Gang?
  8. Who were allies of Kool Gang?
  9. Did Kool Gang branch off from another gang?  If so which one and when?
  10. Where they ever People or Folks?  If so what year did they turn?