Good day Chicago area and the whole world! I finally am installing an updates page that is sorely needed. I am going to do my best to keep this page updated every single time I change a history, add new pics etc…I realize it can be hard to keep up with my constant changes I make. I have made so many since 2016 and have made tons of changes in 2024 alone. I uploaded hundreds of pics and changed so many histories that were flawed. Once again, please be patient if I put up the wrong history, don’t flip out and curse me out and send me nasty emails. Keep calm, take a deep breath, and email me civily and we can work it out. Believe me, I want the most accurate histories I can but the research methods for Chicago gangs involves putting up anything I can find and waiting for someone to say it is wrong or not. It sucks but it is the only way. This street knowledge not text from history books, this is difficult as hell to research and report on accurately. Please understand, even the most knowledgable OGs out there don’t know the whole city, it is physically impossible!
As of today, August 28, 2024, pic updates and new page updates are stagnanted right now. The reason why I had to put a freeze on that is because the site became overloaded with too much media. I have a limited budget, very limited, as I am a working stiff like everyone else. I’ve been on TV multiple times for gang documentaries but that pays a salary of $0.00 a year. Given that, I don’t have the money to keep up with the site, I rely on a good friend but he is swamped right now but intends to update the site once he is able to but it could take months! If you sent me pics in recent months and I haven’t posted, that is why because I don’t want to break the site and have it go down for months. I am fully able to update the text on my pages; therefore, I can update away on history. If you have any history to add for the pages please contact me at Chicagoganghistory@protonmail.com. DO NOT contact me for any sales offers to administer my site! I can tell you right now, I can’t afford any of y’all!
Check me out and other street historians and former members of clubs on the Facebook Group “Compliments of:Da REAL OGs.” We share much history and pictures from the past!
Don’t completely rely on this page for 100% of updates, my goal is to document each time I update but sometimes I may forget so keep checking the pages!
Now onto the updates!
11/17/24 – My Arlington Heights page is now up and I have updated my Bensenville page with info such as who started the Bensenville Imperial Gangsters and who was on David Drive when the GDs arrived. Arlington Heights is the first chapter in the history of the P-Town (Palatine Latin Kings) that I will eventually write about along with the storied suburb of Palatine. This is all part of my newest coverage of the northwest Cook County suburbs!
11/16/24 – Check out my Mundelein page!
11/11/24 – Hoffman Estates suburban page is now posted!
11/10/24 – I had some founding gang info for Des Plaines incorrect, it all actually started in 1979! I now posted a Streamwood page-check it out! I had to update the Franklin Park page because I found out Maniacs were in the Jungle back in the day! I now found out there were two seperate Two One clubs, the Leavitt guys were not born out of Paulina like I though, there are now two different Two One pages. Hoffman Estates page is coming soon maybe even today!
11/4/24 – Hanover Park suburban page is now up! I never knew this suburb was rowdy back in the day, I now outlined the most I possibly could. More northwest Cook County suburb pages are coming!
11/3/24 Many of you may have noticed the site becoming disconnected, slow or errored over the past few weeks. This is because me and my IT guy are trying to figure out how to keep this site connected while maintaining massive picture storage, a very tough thing to keep up with. We are hoping that very soon we will have this site running smoother than ever, But for now I have some updates I made I want to share.
I now have pages for Stone Park, Des Plaines, Glendale Heights, and Rosemont. My research of the O’Hare suburbs continues and I am finding out so much about the oldest gang element in these suburbs. I will continue to add northwest Cook County suburbs in the coming weeks.
I updated the histories of the Boss Pimps, the Hallow Satan Disciples section of the SD page, I updated the Latin Dragons history, Latin Stones, Familia Stones, and Los Be Be Stones. Familia Stones needed big fixing, I had some facts wrong. I pumped the hell out of the Latin Stones page…wow, some crazy stories about the Puerto Rican Latin Stones! On my Latin Counts page, Simon City Royals, Insane Deuces pages I pumped up their suburban presence. On my Vice Lord page, the Renegade Vice Lord history was modified again
I also now beefed up my Chicago Heights page about Chi Heights Latin Kings and Latin Counts. I also updated the Latin King and Latin Count pages about the Chicago Heights chapters. My Waukegan page and Joliet pages got updated with the first Latin King presences there in 1979!
Finally, after all these years the Miscellaneous Suburbs page is gone and Summit, West Chicago and Woodridge have their own pages! I also serious made over the Summit history and rewrote the whole thing!
10/13/24 some of you may have noticed connection issues and the site moving painfully slow. I went through another hurdle of too much storage for the site to carry. My tech guy and Chicago Gang History partner worked tirelessly for days until he finally has been cracking the code on the storage issue while staying in budget. We are both hoping Chicago Gang History will eventually move with optimal speed and will soar into the future. If you see disconnections in the current weeks it is likely because of maintenance so keep visiting!
10/13/24 I am now taking on the northwest suburbs of Cook County. I have been neglecting this area a long time and have now uncovered several newspaper articles and have read over YouTube comments for gang videos and have been piecing together gang histories of the O’Hare area. I have started off by putting up a Rolling Meadows page and added more to the western suburbs by adding a Franklin Park page. Now you can read about the storied “The Jungle” area of Franklin Park, what a story! I now have a seperate page for Bellwood and have greatly updated my Melrose Park page, check it out!
9/12/24 – I had to update my Addison page again! Got more info and needed more heavy detail, worth re-reading! I also update the Los Be Be Stone page. Oh man, there were type Os and repetitive paragraph, I also added tons more detailed to their mob history, check it out!
9/9/24 – Villa Park surburb is updated yet again. I forgot all about some apartments and I got more specific info and I fixed some embarassing type Os!
8/29/24 – I got so much more detailed history on Villa Park and have given the page a whole new makeover! Also, my Los Bebe Stones page has some small changes about founding years of certain suburbs and about their Villa Park chapter and a fix on some grammatical errors I missed.
Have you checked out pages for West Town neighborhoods like East Village, Noble Square, Wicker Park, East Humboldt Park lately? Like in the past few months? If not, I did a huge makeover of the histories and the sections.
West Humboldt Park page got a makeover too a few months back, check it out!
Gage Park and Gage Park Latin King history was updated not long ago on the Latin King page and on the Gage Park page about them coming from the Devious Ones, check it out!
8/28/24 – Bensenville page was just updated! I changed so much, you gotta check it out!
August 2024 – My Milwaukee Kings page got a big update on the story of the founder, “Shakey.” Thanks to a key YouTube video, I was able to piece more of this story together, check it out!
August 2024 – My Gangster Stones page was updated earlier this month, got a whole new makeover, it was quite off before.
August 2024 – My Pullman page got a big update, that coincides with my Gangster Stone knowledge.
August 2024 – The Boss Pimps page got a big update, check out the new history!
August 2024 – On my Vice Lord page, I updated the Renegade Vice Lords section, check it out!
August 2024 – It appears I was quite off about Jeffrey Manor, Trumbull projects in South Deering, white flight happened sooner and GDs showed up much sooner! Check out my updated South Deering page!
August 2024 – Did you know Latin Counts were in Little Village in the early 60s? Did you also know they were in Rockford in the early 60s? Check out the updated Latin Count page for more details!
A few months ago, my Latin King page got a huge update! This is a must see! The early history and some of the later history got a major update and new pics of the founder were added!
A month or so ago my Folk and People knowledge expanded and the Folk alliance page, People alliance page and my write up on “The Meaning of Folks and People” was updated!
A few months back I got more founding history on the Gangster Disciples/Black Disciples from the 1950s! Check it out!
If you haven’t seen yet, much earlier in the year I got the real early history on the Almighty Imperial Gangsters, exlusive stuff not found anywhere else on the net, I spoke to foundation about this!
A few months back I updated the Northside Insane Popes page because I got more founding history, check it out!