Teenagers hanging out on West 63rd Street, yelling at people in cars and flashing gang signs. A boy was beaten with a crowbar because he refused to join a gang. All signs of a change in the area. Not unusual, many residents reportedly denied that there was any kind of a gang problem in their area. That shooting woke up the residents of the community.
Street gangs can now show up any where.
From the poorest neighborhoods to some of the better suburban towns. Gang specialists estimate that there are more than 50 street gangs operating in the Cook County suburbs. Communities such as Aurora, Elgin, Evanston, Schaumburg, and Mount Prospect have gangs operating in their towns. But there white street gang members. In fact, the first street gangs in Chicago were white.