Documentg the Insane Pope’s and Chigo Gaylord’s War which divid the Whe Greaser gangs Chigo the early seventi.
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GAYLORDS
Southsi Gaylords were very active om the mid 1960s until the mid 1970s. * gaylords gang *
The headquarters for the Gay Lords Ltle Village was 24th and Whipple and that’s where all started for this group of Gaylords, but this is not the begng of the story of the ALGN necsarily. The Gay Lords hung out at 24th and Marshall Boulevard out ont of John Spry Elementary School (2400 S Marshall Blvd, Chigo, IL 60623) which is the same tersectn where the legendary 24th and Marshall Boulevard Lat Kgs started, however, they didn’t e along until the mid-1960s and that was maly bee Gay Lords were voluntarily relquishg this rner to serve Vietnam. By the later 50s Gay Lords graduated to Harley Davidson Motorcycl and this ma the girls flock to them; not only that, but the Gay Lords were also nng Harrison High School and the Outlaws were not happy wh any of g more nflict.
CHIGO GAYLORDS
The Chigo Gaylords is a whe Chigo street gang that was found durg the 1940s. The gang took s name om the Gaylord (Gaillard) fay of Normandy, and s origal members were mostly Italian, Irish, and Greek-Amerin World War II veterans. The "club" has s own clubho and... * gaylords gang *
Gay Lords were fightg wh Vice Lords, Egyptian Cobras and Roman Sats bee they were attendg Harrison High School as they muted om the Near Wt Si neighborhood om the Maxwell Street Market area.
GAYLORDS (CHIGO GANG)
UNLIKE OTHER STREET NATIONS OR GANGS, THE GAYLORDS HAVE NEVER HAD ANY MAJOR PRESIDENT OR LEADER. * gaylords gang *
Gog back to Wt Town 1956, Anthony Anara was now 16 years old and anized the group of now 37 guys to somethg siar to a club, but took until 1958 for them to officially name themselv “Gay Lords, ” Bobby Shipball me up wh the name. As soon as the Gay Lords anizatn began 1958 there were now 90 members makg them one of the bigger outfs the area and the legends began at the tersectn of Huron and Noble which is the motherland of the AGLN Gaylords.
The early racial makp of the Gay Lords was mostly whe members that were Polish, German, and Italian and early acunts even say there were Mexin members too (Short & Strodtbeck, 1961).
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In the late 1950s, the Wt Town Gaylords began growg larger and beme a major prence at Wells High School (936 N Ashland Ave, Chigo, IL 60622) loted the East Village neighborhood.
Gaylords, C-Not, Domos and Lazy Gents were the domatg Italian gangs and the Playboys were started bee they felt the Gaylords, and the other Italian gangs were bullyg them and g trouble their neighborhood. The worst enemi for the Gay Lords up north were Playboys, Sons of Satan Slav (Ventur), Pulaski Park, C-Not, and some small groups of Puerto Rin gangs like the Imperials and Skulls (Later known as Lat Kgs). It was also the early 1960s that the Gay Lords were a transn wh their name changg om “Gay Lords” to “Gaylords” and their new lors were to be grey and black or light blue and black pendg on the sectn.
Another big change was the emblem that the Gaylords would wear, as the skull wh whiskey bottle etc… was beg replaced by a Celtic cross wh a sunburst which would bee the permanent Gaylords’ symbol (Short & Strodtbeck, 1961).
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Some of the first Mexin fai were movg to the Ltle Village muny at that time and soon the first Mexin gang started up at this tersectn to fend themselv agast the Gaylords and Outlaws.
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The Lat Kgs were massive right om the start, Leavt and Schiller were erng the 24th and Marshall Boulevard Lat Kgs which meant north si Lat Kgs would e and back up the south sirs, this meant more trouble for Gaylords. ” Many Gaylords roved the Humboldt Park Park area and terrorized Puerto Rin gangs and many other Puerto Rin youths that claimed to have been attacked and beaten the park by Gaylords.
OLDER IMPERIAL GANSTER SAID OF THE LAWNDALE GAYLORDS PUT IT LIKE THIS, THE L/A G/L'S FOUGHT LIKE OLD GANGSTERS YOU KNEW YOU HAD A FIGHT WHEN YOU ENTERED THAT HOOD AND YOU BETTER HAVE AN EXIT PLAN. * gaylords gang *
Gaylords ed had some jt e bee alongsi the Puerto Rin migratn me many unsirabl to the muni, although mostly not tentnal om the Puerto Rin muny this is jt what tagged along wh the Puerto Rin populace. The Gaylords would eventually feat the Skulls and ph them onto Leavt and Schiller to jo forc wh the Imperials, the marriage of the two along wh other groups brought about the birth of the Lat Kgs 1964; therefore, part of the very reason the Lat Kgs formed is bee of the Gaylords. The Gaylords always had a strong sense of ary pri and now most of them went to serve between 1965 and 1966 and by 1966 24th and Marshall Boulevard was pletely hand over to the Lat Kgs makg that sectn beme stronger than ever whout the Gaylords prent to stop them.