This webse was veloped for the purpose of explag, documentg and fg one of Chigo's whe gangs, known as the Gaylords. This gang is no longer street active as once was. Enter Now!
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GAYLORDS
Unver the experienc of whe youth walkg the streets of Chigo the 1970s and 1980s as we lve to the history and signifince of the Chigo Gaylords. ; the Gaylords' Social Athletic Club the Grand and Ogn area, which was affiliated wh the Junr Postal Athletic Club, and is loted the Ltle Italy sectn known as the Patch. Ga sights to the existence of Chigo street gangs and wns how the Gaylords grew om a neighborhood street gang the 1950s to the largt whe gang Chigo.
The Chigo Gaylords, assumed to be a North Si Street Gang, had sectns on the South Si Sherman Park (55th and Ashland), 18th and Wtern (Pilsen area), and Bridgeport (Throop Street).
Two non-fictn novels have been wrten about the Chigo Gaylords street gang: Great Amerin Youth and Lords of Kilbourn wrten by Rocker, a former Lawndale and Altgeld and Kilbourn Park Gaylord. Junr Postals late 1940s-early 1950s (not a gang at the time); Gay Lords early 1950s-early 1960s; Gaylords early 1960s-21st century.