A massive bomb explodes in the centre of the city. A message from the vicious motor-cycle gang The Outlaws. Bikers driven by greed. Who will stop at nothing to protect their interests. The Drugs. The women. The brutality. We go deep inside the world of the Outlaws. Gangland s2e3: Biker Wars
Three goals: money, power and territory. ibid.
The Outlaws were waging all-out war on any club that supported the Angels. ibid.
God forgives; Outlaws don’t. ibid. Outlaws’ slogan
When the trials were over, sixteen were found guilty. ibid.
They are Chicago’s oldest gang. And one of its most violent. The Vice Lords: for decades they have shrouded the west-side streets in blood. They started off as a group of young boys. And rose to become one of the most feared criminal organisations in America. Gangland s2e6: Lords of the Holy City
While walking his dogs one morning Willie was ambushed. ibid.
The Vice Lords began in 1958 in a Juvenile Detention Centre is St Charles, a suburb of Chicago. The boys soon returned to their homes in South Lawndale ... By the early 1960s the Vice Lords were involved in every sort of criminal activity. ibid.
By 1966 the Vice Lords were part of the civil rights movement. ibid.
Heroin was changing the Vice Lords. ibid.
The streets of Chicago where the mid-West meets the wild West. On the south side one gang – the Satan Disciples – reigns supreme. These gangstas worship just one thing. Chicago’s south side is the Devil’s Playground. Gangland s3e3: The Devil’s Playground
The different sets are structured under one umbrella – the Satan Disciple Nation. ibid.
Bobby has lost two brothers to gang life. ibid.
Gangs formed for protection including the Latin Kings and the Vice Lords. ibid.
The Satan Disciples’ colours are yellow and black. ibid.
Their ink is full of devilish imagery. ibid.
Chicago: It is also the birthplace of the modern gang as we know it. Gangland s4e3: Divide and Conquer
Humboldt Park is the birthplace of the almighty Latin King & Queen Nation. ibid.
50,000 strong nationwide, making them a super-gang ... Yet all roads lead back to Chicago. ibid.
Latin Queens are every bit as hardcore as the Kings. ibid.
In the 1960s the Latin Kings found themselves in the thick of the Equal Rights Movement. ibid.
What is required is loyalty and the willingness to work. ibid.
It’s the crown jewel of America’s heartland. But Chicago’s cold winds blow deadly. The Four Corner Hustlers own these streets. But everything they touch turns to violence and death, even between brothers. Gangland: Hustle or Die s5e5
They pledge allegiance to the almighty dollar. ibid.
The Four Corners’ biggest rival – a gang called the Black Souls who claim turf just to the west. ibid.
In 2008 there were 229 gang-related killings in Chicago. ibid.
The Fours have crews all over America, but it started more than forty years ago in Chicago’s West Garfield Park area. ibid.
In the mid-seventies heroin flooded the streets of Chicago, and the gangs decided they wanted in on the action. ibid.
It’s on in the Motor City. And one gang has declared war. They are the Devil’s Disciples. Gangland s6e7: Devil’s Diciples [sic], History 2010
Dealing drugs isn’t their only vice. These gangstas reject society’s laws. ibid.
In addition to their house-mouse, members are allowed a certain number of girlfriends ... Women are never more than second class citizens. ibid.
Our organisation is a non-violent organisation. We fight to protect. We’re not the enemy. Jeff Ford, el presidenté Blackstone/Keystone Rangers
You are talking about the advent of the black organised crime. The Black Mafia. Terry Hillard, retired Chicago rozzer
It didn’t start out as a gang. We protected the store-owners, we protected the women, the mothers, the families ... I wanted to excel at something, and I did excel in violence. James Anderson (P Stone aka Satan)
The Power. The Prestige. The reputation. James Anderson
They call it the Twilight Zone. Ray Rolan, former Maniac Latin Disciple
1988: the family business known simply as the Chambers Brothers came to a quiet end. American Gangster s1e5: Chambers Brothers and the Crack Commandments, BET 2006
Titans of industry in the drug trade: they even instituted a crack-house business code. ibid.
An estimated three hundred crack houses. ibid.
Larry Hoover is King Larry, long time monarch of Chicago’s largest and most powerful street organization – the Gangster Disciples. American Gangster s2e2: Larry Hoover & the Gangster Disciples, BET 2007
1968: a merger: Black Disciples & Supreme Gangsters = Gangster Disciples. ibid.
‘I was making over a thousand dollars a day.’ ibid. Larry Hoover
As the leader, Hoover was often the target. ibid.
Some called them America’s first black street movement; to others they were Chicago’s most notorious street gang ... the Almighty Black P Stone Nation. American Gangster s2e7: Jeff Fort & the Blackstone Rangers
Federal money was bypassing city hall and going directly into the hands of TWO [The Woodlawn Organization] and gang leaders like Jeff Fort. ibid.
The Black Panthers were gaining force on the streets of Chicago, and trying to convince Jeff Fort to join with them as a force for social change. ibid.
Jeff Fort, raised as a Southern Baptist, had converted to Islam. ibid.
Chicago: home to some of the biggest open-air drugs markets in America. Gangs work in highly organised teams selling drugs on blocks and street corners. And the product they’re pushing hardest is heroin. Drugs Inc s4e3: Windy High City, National Geographic 2014
An estimated 250,000 drug users in Chicago. Many of these users can be found on the West Side. ibid.
The popularity of Chicago Kush. ibid.
Chicago the drug hub of the mid-west. Drugs Inc s6e12: Sin-Dependence Day
The stick-up crews are watching ... Their favourite target is cocaine dealers. ibid.
Recently switched from selling ecstasy to selling Molly. ibid.
It’s the national holiday ... Rambo’s strategy is to hand out free capsules. ibid.
Over the July 4th weekend 82 people were shot in Chicago. 14 died. ibid.
Chicago is still a focal point for the cartels. Drugs Inc Compilation: Breakdown, National Geographic 2015
Chicago nightclub attracts a daring and unusual crowd. Some believe that this energy is evidence of a haunting that has been experienced by everyone that works here. At the Excalibur the key to the mystery can be found in the building’s tragic past. 1871 the Great Chicago Fire: half of the city burns to the ground. Among the buildings destroyed was the Chicago Historical Society which stood on the site of the Excalibur. Unexplained Mysteries
Hog Butcher for the world,
Tool Maker, Stacker of Wheat,
Player with Railroads and the Nation’s Freight Handler;
Stormy, husky brawling,
City of the Big Shoulders. Carl Sandburg, Chicago, 1916
Chicago, Chicago
That toddlin’ town
Chicago, Chicago
I'll show you around
I love it
Bet your bottom dollar you’ll lose the blues
In Chicago, Chicago. Fred Fisher, Chicago