PRISON GANGS | VILLA LOBOS | CHICAGO
Channel: WRONG TO STRONG
Date: 2021-01-28

In about 1967, The #VillaLobos moved to 18th and Damen in the Pilsen neighborhood.   They had a club house at 18th and Damen right behind Bishop’s Chili.  Villa Lobos means “Village Wolves” in Spanish.  The Villa Lobos had an alliance with Morgan Deuces and Latin Kings and would invite Latin Kings from Little Village to party with them at the club house.  The Villa Lobos were also called upon at a peace summit with Latin Kings, Morgan Deuces and other gangs in the Bridgeport Homes in the Bridgeport neighborhood in the late 1960s, this solidified their relationship with Latin Kings much more.  The Villa Lobos existed in Pilsen for approximately 10 years until they moved out completely.
Chicago's first gangs developed along ethnic lines out of the volunteer fire departments during the antebellum period. With names like “Fire Kings,” these outfits of young, often single working-class men competed against one another in departmental reviews, brawled in the streets, and conducted social events. “Running with the machine” was celebrated in the dime novels of the day as part of the culture of manly bravado. When the professionalization of firefighting departments forced volunteer companies to disband, the locus of gang life shifted into saloons, where “political fixers” harnessed the energies of these men.
By the 1880s a thriving gang scene developed in Bridgeport and Back of the Yards on the South Side. Several large Irish gangs, such as the Dukies and the Shielders, exerted a powerful influence on the street life around the stockyards, raiding peddlers, robbing men leaving work, fighting among themselves, and terrorizing the German, Jewish, and Polish immigrants who settled there from the 1870s to the 1890s. These gangs fought constantly among themselves, but they united as the “Mickies” to battle black gangs to the east. During this period, gangs became entrenched in the patronage networks of ward machines. In Irish communities, the sponsorship of gangs by politicians and businessmen transformed them into “athletic clubs” like the Hamburg Club, Ragen's Colts, and the Old Rose Athletic Club. Based in saloons and clubhouses, and often claiming the membership of over a hundred men ranging from their late teens to early thirties, these clubs ensured the elections of their patrons by stuffing ballot boxes and intimidating voters.
By the early twentieth century, Polish and Italian gangs were the most numerous in Chicago. Polish gangs located in the “Pojay” colony on the Northwest Side battled rival Polish groups across the river in the Bucktown area and southward, where a different Polish gang occupied every block of Milwaukee Avenue down to the industrial area along the Chicago River. These gangs also engaged in territorial skirmishes with Italian gangs of the “Little Sicily” neighborhood to their south. Usually identifying themselves by streets that served as hangouts, several of these Italian gangs reportedly had connections with “Black Hand” syndicates.
#GANGLIFE:  You'll make lots of money, have expensive cars, lots of stuff and be powerful... You'll either be arrested, injured, or killed and your cars, property, drugs, and money will all be taken away by other gang members or seized by the police when you're caught. Most gang members don't 'own' anything.

JC- Born and raised in #Chicago. Spent 17 years in #US and #Mexican #Prison. Worked for the #Cartel. Struggled with #addiction my whole life and #abuse. 

Today I'm #sober, #happy and #married with children. I hope to use my  life experience to help others who are suffering from addiction/abuse.

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