retaliation are common in Chicago. Gangs were responsible for 61% of the homicides in Chicago in 2011. The first gangs in Chicago were loosely organized...

Gangs in Chicago have a role in the city's crime rate. The number of homicides in Chicago hit a 25-year high in 2021. Chicago saw a major rise in violent...

street gangs, prison gangs, outlaw motorcycle clubs, and ethnic and organized crime gangs. Many American gangs began, and still exist, in urban areas. In many...

members from other immigrant backgrounds. Torrio's gang also differed from the other Chicago gangs by recruiting from New York's underworld, regularly...

Nation is a Chicago street gang founded in the early 1950s. The gang is part of the People Nation alliance and are known for disrupting rival gangs near Kilbourn...

other gangs with active chapters in the area as of 2023. With its roots dating back to the 1950s, the continuous presence and activity of gangs around...

Chicago-based Prohibition gangs, the North Side Gang originated from the Market Street Gang, one of many street gangs in Chicago at the turn of the 20th...

Gangs of Chicago is a 1940 crime film, starring Lloyd Nolan, Barton MacLane, Lola Lane, Ray Middleton, Astrid Allwyn, and Horace McMahon. Alan Ladd has...

portal Gangs in Chicago Folk Nation Knox, George W., Ph.D. (2008). "The Impact of the Federal Prosecution of the Gangster Disciples". National Gang Crime...

The Folk Nation is an alliance of street gangs originating in Chicago, established in 1978. The alliance has since spread throughout the United States...

co-founder David Barksdale. OutLaw Gangster Disciples Gangs in Chicago Cartels and Gangs in Chicago dea.gov (May 2017) [1] justice.gov The Gangster Disciples...

an alliance of street gangs generally associated with the Chicago area. They are rivals of the Folk Nation alliance of gangs. In 1978, Mickey Cogwell and...

street gangs in the United States after the Sureños and Norteños, as well as MS-13 and the 18th Street gang, and one of the largest street gangs based in Chicago...

were wounded in a gang related shooting at Benito Juarez Community Academy, in Chicago. A 16-year-old affiliated with gangs was convicted in 2024 and sentenced...

individual's reputation, only a gang's reputation. Some prison gangs are transplanted from the street. In some circumstances, prison gangs "outgrow" the internal...

Gangs in Chicago dea.gov (May 2017) Social Reality of African American Street Gangs National Criminal Justice Reference Service (1997) "National Gang...

"classic prison gangs", they are referring to prison gangs in the United States of America;[citation needed] such gangs began to form in the mid 1960s.[need...

Street gangs are gangs formed by youths in urban areas, and are known primarily for street fighting and gang warfare. The term "street gang" is commonly...

The Forty-Two Gang was a teenage street gang in Chicago that started during Prohibition. Like Brooklyn's Italian and Jewish street gangs of Brownsville...

organized crime, with many of the gangs being based on real-life gangs such as Bloods, Crips, and Mexican street gangs. Grand Theft Auto IV (2008) has missions...

website in 2014 stated that there were some 33,000 gangs in the United States which they classified as street gangs, motorcycle gangs or prison gangs. While...

Disciples criminal organization was formed on Chicago's South Side, by uniting two separate gangs. The two gangs conjoined were, The Supreme Gangsters, led...

rival motorcycle gangs Lisa Backus, Connecticut Post (May 22, 2019) Archived December 2, 2022, at the Wayback Machine Biker Gangs In The Motor City: A...

street gangs, as much as 2 metric tons a month, in a city with over 117,000 documented gang members. The Gangster Disciples are one of the local gangs most...

Irish-American street gangs – famously first depicted in Herbert Asbury's 1927 book, The Gangs of New York – the Irish Mob has appeared in most major U.S. and...

pertaining to street gangs and suffered their share of high-profile firearms murders.[citation needed] Sheffield, which has a long history of gangs traced back...

in criminal gangs, by locale. There were at least 30,000 gangs and 800,000 gang members active across the US in 2007, and an estimated 1.4 million in...

been to war with many Folk Nation gangs such as Gangster Disciples, and other Folks. Their main rivals are local gangs such as the Almighty Saints, Latin...

is a Chicago, Illinois street gang, formed in the late 1950s on the north side of Chicago, primarily building membership from a Greek greaser gang that...

break out just as the gangs are preparing to fight, and Union Army soldiers are deployed to control the rioters. As the rival gangs fight, cannon fire from...