Howard Street Greasers: Legendary Rogers Park Gang
Their hangouts were the Big Pit on Clarke & Howard and the Howard Street Bowl. Their clubhouse was Wolcott Ave, between Howard Street and Birchwood, one block from Clark Street, one and a half blocks from Howard Street Bowl and a few blocks from the Howard Street EL & bus station. Ace was the President of the club, Casper, Mr. Duffy, Duke, Turk, Red, Dago, Lil Mike, Punky Pete, to name a few. It was the unwritten rule to stay on this side of Howard Street.....unless of course there was a group of people all together....
On a Monday, April 23rd 1979, in a rumble between the Howard Street Greasers and the Howard Street Latin Kings, a Howard Street Greaser stabbed a Latin King to death with a cane-sword that contained a 30 inch blade, in Rogers Park.
I grew up on Howard Street and I remember the Howard Street Greasers. They were aligned on Howard Street with another white gang called the Howard Street Lords. This was? 75' or 76', to this day I still think about these young brothers out there on the corner "campaigning" as we call it in Chicago. The Howard Street Lords(Hst.L) originally clicked up with the Howard Street Greasers(HSG) because both were the only white gangs on Howard Street. They eventually came under the five when they began clicking up with the Latin Kings from H/A, Howard and Ashland. I remember Hst.L's named "J.J", "Tony", "Lil BurnOut", "Lil DJ", and "Lil Hitler" I also remember The L-K's from Howard and Ashland, "Taco", "Cucko", "Alechio", and "Ricky'. I only? knew one HSG, this one dude named Barry.