Chicago Greaser Gangs
Capone Lords
- SIMON CITY
- RICE BOYS:
- were on Rice and Pine, Chicago and Central, and on Kostner and Wabansia.
- VENTURES:
- Crystal and Long under the PVR's
- PLAYBOYS (Also referred to as Polish Viking Playboys):
- Wrightwood and Laramie in the mid 80's.
- Cragin Park Playboys/pvr's (Playboys/Ventures/Rice Boys unity), they lasted up until the early 90s. The Playboys also had sections on Division Street. There was a big set of PVR at Galewood Park.
Logan Square Heads
- BELAIRS:
- The Bel-Aires were ran by this guy "Crazy Tom" president they hung on St.Louis and Armitage and the Cortland Stacies were one of the rivals, they hung in the hood of Moffat and Campbell.
- Belairs were mainly between Armitage and North ave and between Sacramento and Central Park, much of the same area that was Simon City populated. The Belairs had a bell with wings for a logo. Many of their members became DC Eagles.
- STONED YARDERS
- DRUMMOND BOYS
- GUZZLERS
- CORTLAND STACYS
- PREATORIANS
- ASHLAND VIKINGS:
- Late 1960's: Mostly Polish gang started to counter Black gangs on Taylor Street. Members of the Ashland Vikings wore cross tatoos on their wrists. The Ashland Vikings eventually became a Latino gang.
- MEDILL MADMEN
Coal Yard
- SAYRE SCHOOL BOYS
- SAYRE PARK BOYS
- KEELER AND IRVING PARTY PEOPLE
- LELAND AVE PARTY PEOPLE
- INSANE HOODS
- WILSON BOYS
- PARK 9ers
- WHITE KNIGHTS
- ROMAN SAINTS
- Back of the Yards: The Saints were at Davis Square in the Back of the Yards, pretty much 43rd to 47th, Ashland to probably Damen, 43rd to 47th east of Ashland to Loomis.
- The Saints started out Polish and eventually became a Mexican gang. In the mid 1980s, there were still quite a few Polish in the gang. Around 1969 or 1970, The Saints and the Dukes were allies against the Sherman Park Gaylords.
- BYRON AND KOSTNER BOYS
- HELLS DEVILS
Stooge Brothers
- TOKERS
- GREENVIEW BOYS
- HEADS
- ARISTOCRATS:
- at Barry and Seminary.
- UNKNOWNS
Young Destroyers
- JCLs
- BELL PARKERS
- RIIS PARKERS
- MONROE BOYS
- LECLAIRE AND GEORGE
- HOWARD STREET GREASERS
Furies

- SAINTS
- Originally, the Roman Saints were Polish.
- DEFIANT ONES
- NOBLE KNIGHTS
- TWELFTH STREET PLAYERS
South Side Gangs
Racine Boys
- CORNELL DUKES:
- Were a pretty large gang from the mid 60's to mid 70's. Their turf was 4700 South to 5100 South, and Ashland west to the Railroad tracks at 2200 west.
- MAD LADS:
- (very large, very active, and very short lived). The Mad Lads were predominantly white, and wore gray sweaters and berets.
- 59TH STREET SUPREME RULERS
- KINGSMEN:
- they were from around 59th Street.
- NIGHTINGALES:
- (Midgets were LITTLE NIGHTINGALES) They hung by the grammer school on 52nd and Rockwell.
- BURGER KING BOYS:
- They hung at the Burger King that used to be on 55th east of Ashland.
- REBELS:
- 47th Street and Ashland.
- 63RD STREET IMPERIALS
- 63rd STREET BEER CLUB
- EMERALD KNIGHTS
- 55th emerald.
- V's:
- They hung around behind Gage Park High School.
- LOAFERS:
- Mostly Italian from 69th and Hermitage.
- DUKES OF HERMITAGE.
- Hung around Hermitage Park and 59th and Hermitage.
- SAWYER BOYS:
- They hung at Sawyer school at 53rd and Sawyer.
- WHIPPLE STREET BOYS
- ARTESIAN COBRAS:
- (a greaser gang who evolved from the 59 Street Supreme rulers, and most of whom were weightlifting fanatics)
- THE SETTLEMENT (1966-1968)
- NORTH SHORE GREASERS a.k.a PRATT AND SHERIDAN GREASE:
- Hung out in Rogers Park at Pratt and Sheridan. They were friendly with the Howard Street Greasers and the Thorndale Jagoffs. Two of their popular hangouts were the Crystal Cue and Howard and Paulina Billards.
- A North Shore Greaser had this to say: I was just a kid hanging out at Sliver Sues pinball parlor on Farwell & Clark street in the late 70"s, i remember all the gang bangers that use to hang out there, lots of popes, Simon city royals, Latin kings, I remember all the fights, they would be like brothers to me because I was a pinball wizard and win games for them, so they wouldn't be kicked out of Silver Sues. guys like Tony, red, Timmy, Frenchy, ace, Twat, Ids, etc. They always smelled like peppermint schnapps, or pot, even though I was a jock they were always cool to me, respected for helping them in a sense, felt safe around them and in the neighborhood, they were all cool guys, like you see in the gang movies. These guys were real though. Me and my sister were leaving Silver Sue's one the night Arvella Thomas was murdered. She was a friend of ours and asked us for money to get home, but we didn’t have any. Next morning we went to Silver Sue’s and found out she was killed. So sad she was so nice. I was just 11 years old, but felt older hanging around all those older people.
- The gangs from Amundsen were different because just about everyone had a mutual friend or a friend period in another gang. A prime example would be Waters Park on Campbell and Wilson. On any summer night you could easily see 100 plus hanging out including guys from "Grubb"(Welles Park), TJO, Blacktop (St. Mathias), Maniac Drifters, Unknowns, PVP, and a host of others. Gangs were respected for their "Truce Ability". Waters Park is now a forest.
- THE TURF
- THE PATCH
- BLACKTOP
- VIENNA BOYS
- TAU GAMMS:
- A huge group of guys mostly from Senn HS known as Tau Gamms gathered around Randl's Restaurant at Devon and california Aves nearly every night between 1958-61. A few of the names associated with the crowd were Danny Lonnegan and Freddy Glickstein. Following Tau Gamma's departure, various groups from Mather HS began to locate at the corner from '63 -66. The primary enemies were the Monks from Amundsen and Turf and TJO from Senn High School. Comments by classmates members and newspaper accounts of the time corroborate the existance of group at Devon and California.
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