1974 Chicago Gang Documentary on Racial Divisions, Gaylords, Insane Popes, and Ridgeway Lords.

[@philipargo]

I miss the pre-internet world so much.

[@cdcaleo]

Amen brother!

[@fahgedaboudit]

Of all the vids I've ever seen about Chicago gangs, this has got to be the best one. These people were young but you can tell they were a lot more conscious of what the hell was going on around them socially and economically than most of these bangers out here today. They had a lot to say about class and race and why they do what they do and honestly, it all made sense. The average banger on the street today doesn't think that deep.

[@shean991]

They were more aware with less access to information and education too. Smh.

[@RillaLord32212]

Born and raised on the Westside of Chicago.. I'm an 80's baby.. It's amazing how you can literally see how things change throughout the years.. I'm a Conservative Vicelord... Better yet I'm a grown man, husband, father and grandfather.. It's good to be alive... Point blank..

[@AbrahamCasillas-t3o]

For some reason everything seems the same and different. It's weird.

[@r.a.contrerasma8578]

All those people would be in their 70s now. I'd like to see a retrospective 50 yrs later.

[@zazasnruntz7505]

A lot of the white ones are living in the suburbs and have passed down their hateful ways to their children

[@ICee712]

I don't know anyone specifically in the video. But I was born in the early 80s. Grew up in the Lawndale neighborhood with the Gaylords. My moms family is from that neighborhood. My dad and his brothers and their network of friends (pretty much all still in touch and close since the 70s) are GLs from the St Gens/Blackhawk/Craigin Park neighborhood. They are all pretty much average blue collar guys. My dad's a fire lieutenant. One of his brothers, and active GL from St Gens, took over their father's business and is upper/middle class with a couple homes. My mom's brother went off the deepend after the GLs in the late 80s

[@r.a.contrerasma8578]

@ICee712 Thank you.

[@DavidBlanco-i6t]

wow, I look forward to new posts. this is some good old school Chicago gang docs.

[@palepride7530]

Diversity excuses

[@norfillyson]

​@@palepride7530 pipe down Adolf

[@valenteleanos4774]

I lived on 22nd and California, I miss how pretty the young ladies were in the 70s n 80’s. Little to no makeup, they were all in shape nobody was overweight. It’s sooo different now, it’s sad to see

[@AlisaDashaPowerBlackwoodsBriga]

Helll yeahz❤

[@aromad5557]

Chicago is worse now than it was in the 70’s. The average black family had a net worth of $50k, not it’s only $11k. 👎🏾

[@nagelzarvel6458]

Leave the tortas alone

[@Rsb22SemperFi]

@@nagelzarvel6458 🤣🤣🤣

[@daniellee1722]

Imagine them watching The Warriors a few years later

[@davidrhodes5457]

@@daniellee1722 I saw the Warriors at the theater with my friends and after we left there was like seven or eight fights going on outside lol. It was kind of like when we’re done watching wrestling when we were kids and we try all the moves out on each other 😂

[@Pedro-uz8jz]

Chicago history!!!! Thanks for posting.

[@pmatian]

This doc is awesome. So good to see this content today.

[@ericweiseronline6800]

"We're getting f*cked over by the same pigs." That was SO 1974 that it hurts.

[@johnnystafford1826]

I am only half way through this and already it's 5 star material! Thanks for this and I'm pushing the sub button as soon as I sign off.⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

[@westlove1226]

@@johnnystafford1826 Glad you enjoyed it!

[@DeeJayResist]

They had more of a class analysis back in those days.

[@dronejunglistplatoon]

Fascinating! Thx for the upload!

[@RaulDuke773]

Straight gold. Thanks again bro

[@westlove1226]

@@RaulDuke773 anytime, enjoy!

[@alfredindy8058]

Bobby Mason (Mace) was in many "Rising Up Angry" articles. He was legendary around Palmer and California. I interviewed Bobby Mason. He was very intelligent with streetwise knowledge mixed in.

[@wermzer1312]

No war but class war. Sadly this has been completely forgotten.

[@I.D.I.O.C.R.A.C.Y.]

Its not forgotten. It's just a pipe dream concocted by a trust fund kiddie and his buddy, Marx... based upon a naive understanding of human nature due to their overly privileged existence. Find better idols that actually have some connection to their own theories.

[@chrisgreene335]

Interesting video, thanks for the share. Chi💎Town has changed so much over the years. 💯

[@Milofchg]

Great post, I was 3 in 1974 but lived near Lawndale Park/Piotrowski Park across the street from Home Run Inn (3rd Latino family to move on Kildare & 30th 1977 up until 1990)

[@charlieramz3126]

Same. I was 3 and lived on 31st and Keeler.

[@robertmasina7388]

I lived blocks from that park that year in 1974 and I witnessed the neighborhood gradually change from mostly white to Mexican.

[@Chicagoathletics]

Played little league at piotrowski Park and had our banquets at Home Run Inn. (Great pizza by the way)

[@charlieramz3126]

@@Chicagoathletics Same. Played there late 70s early 80s. Pirates, Padres. Both teams sucked. lol. Had pizza when we won which was rare. Sat I. The front parking lot with my team and eventually my boys growing up. That was the hood.

[@Chicagoathletics]

@ we had the trophy day there . Was on the A’s in 86 and 87 and I still have that yellow jersey.

[@jefffch]

Wow this took me back to my childhood in Chicago. I lived on the corner of Albany and Agile across the street from River Park in the 70s. Surrounded by LK's Vice Lords, Spanish Cobras. Had a few good fights at Hibbard school. I'm out west now. I miss Chi town and my childhood.

[@eltanko178]

These guys sound like philosopher kings compared to today's little ganglets.

[@benitolazio8193]

Communists sound like philosophers to the ignorant.

[@eltanko178]

Everyone sounds like communists to the ignorant.

[@eltanko178]

@@benitolazio8193 The ignorant think anything left of right is communist.

[@natenate2280]

@@benitolazio8193 yeah wait what?

[@eltanko178]

@@natenate2280 everything left of Hitler probably sounds communist to him.

[@JUKE179r]

I was 4 in 1974 in Rogers Park. Growing up my cousins on the westside had VL, my cousins on the southside had GD, El Rukn,and Harrison Gents, me on the northside we had VL, GD, SCR, Popes, LKN.

[@westlove1226]

Can’t forget about the Black Toppers, Thorndale Jag Off’s (TJO’s), Turfers, and Gaylords.

[@cathyt502]

@@westlove1226 ... and in the mid 60s it was Simon City Royals, near Kedzie and Armitage. 70s into the 80s it was LKN.

[@westlove1226]

@ it was Simon City in the mid 1960’s with the Bel-Airs, not Simon City Royals which were only formed in 1969 around Lake View High School.

[@jamesburrell677]

The good ole days. Racial pejoratives were commonplace but everyone really loved and mostly respected each other. If you were a working man or woman you got respect no matter what color you were.

[@smbazi]

Amazing. Especially if your landlord wouldn't rent to 🥷🏾

[@gusto8585]

Back when You could still Rumble !!! 💪🏻

[@ericortega1745]

Yeah the problem is. These gangs fought to protect their neighborhood. No guns or innocent bystanders died. Now idiots kill with machine guns.

[@MonsterPig007]

@@ericortega1745 Back in the day (70s) if you used a gun, you were considered a punk because you didn't know how to use your fists. Today's gang are just a bunch of wimps.

[@michaelconrad1539]

970 murders in 1974. 350 more than 2023 Chicago. There were hundreds upon hundreds of innocent fathers, brothers, mothers and children mainly shot to death. Six CPD, or the “pigs" so romantically referred to here, were murdered leaving a dozen or so children behind. What you’re saying is nonsense.

[@no1onu2be19]

Rumble for what though? Protect "their" neighborhoods from whom? I swear Racial ideology is the stupidest shit ever, but also a highly effective way to divide and control people. 🇺🇸

[@ICee712]

@@ericortega1745 the mentalities are completely different. Back then, it was neighborhood guys doing exactly what you said, protecting their neighborhoods. Drugs and money devolved it all into these dummies that can barely speak clearly, and have access to guns

[@Rudy28330]

This was heavy, man, heavy.. I dig it…

[@frankbrenner4852]

The fact that the Chicago accent is pretty much gone actually makes me sad. My dad's family all had a strong accent and my sister and I did until recently. I still do to an extent. But it is sad that this once ubiquitous way of speaking is now gone.

[@davidsuch8942]

The chicago accent sounds like sht. No grown man should sound like that

[@KyleShade]

Cities are wild. If you go in the woods there are lone predators and pack predators. There is also the opossum. Through resilience and cunning the not only coexist and thrive around mountain lions and bears. Opossums are immune to snake venom, they can be vicious, but they are smart enough to play dead and live another day when they know they can’t win. I always thought of myself as an opossums rather than a lion.

[@scottschwartz9394]

At one time, Chicago was the most segregated city in the United States. People didn't cross another people's territories period. That's what they were talking about. Being able to eat in each diners and cross into their Territories without retaliation. Long time ago.

[@zaidaruiz2975]

I am Mexican born in Chicago. We moved to the Marquette Park area 55 years ago ! I didn’t have much problems with any whites. In fact my best 2 friends till this day are Polish and Lithuanian. What helped me was I have a typical Chicago accent and could pass for Greek or Italian.

[@SombraLocs]

Chale, pura Raza! lado café. We don't try to blend in.

[@nihilioellipsis]

I’m Greek and I have been mistaken for Latino, Italian, Indian, Middle Eastern.....

[@user-wb7nv9ht1g]

​@@nihilioellipsisthat's why people consider/ed you people as black

[@petecefa8443]

@@nihilioellipsis I'm Italian but most people think I'm Spanish, Greek, Persian etc... Italian is last on the list. LOL

[@aesonmoritz2100]

@@petecefa8443 You must have southern Italian roots. The Italians in the Northern Regions near the Swiss Border look like Anglos all day.

[@RENEGADE-gk9hv]

How the hell you get these videos? Great video...

[@westlove1226]

@@RENEGADE-gk9hv Amor brother, I know where to look😉.

[@mariocisneros911]

Films.everything pre 1980's was made with a moving camera

[@JohnQPublic345]

my uncle was a gaylord back in the mid 60s. hes white, but his friend were latino (mexican). the mexicans and puerto ricans didnt get along, mostly. this was near north side. these guys all threw-down with bats n chains

[@westlove1226]

@@JohnQPublic345 which neighborhood was your uncle from?

[@JohnQPublic345]

@westlove1226 Logan square I believe

[@westlove1226]

@@JohnQPublic345 that would either be Palmer St. or Lawndale & Altgeld.

[@JohnQPublic345]

@@westlove1226 maybe fullerton & kedzie?

[@crash_davis]

Fascinating. Thanks for sharing 😎

[@A_Chicago__Man_2025]

Thank you for this West Love JH. Shows how it really was. Best gang vid I've seen in a while.

[@westlove1226]

@@A_Chicago__Man_2025 apprecaite you brother, it’s Josh by the way😁.

[@A_Chicago__Man_2025]

@@westlove1226 I know. JH n all

[@mackzed88]

This is absolutely amazing, 50 years ago and these kids, White, black, Latin are saying the same things that people today are saying and what got Trump into office.

[@zazasnruntz7505]

Are you joking? Lol the only thing that relates to white trump voters in this video is all the white kids talking about how the older whites in their neighborhood disliked non whites

[@kenkunz1428]

Schwinn bicycle factory is long gone.

[@westlove1226]

@@kenkunz1428 the building is still there.

[@kenkunz1428]

@@westlove1226 Yes, it is.

[@user-bc6ok1yh4s]

My dad (now gone, RIP) was a shipping foreman there in the mid sixties. He hated working for Schwinn and moved on after a couple of years.

[@kenkunz1428]

@@user-bc6ok1yh4s Wow, my Great-Uncle worked there as a Landscaper all round handyman in the forties. While at work one day he had a suspected heart attack and died right on the property.

[@フォグマシン]

This video is wild as hell

[@brianregan75]

What is the name of this documentary and can you post it in it entirety??…being a Chicagoan , this is really fascinating stuff

[@westlove1226]

Trick Bag is the name, it can found online.

[@brianregan75]

@ Nice…thanks much!👍👌. I’ve been looking for old school (60s-80s) Chicago Street/gang culture stuff for awhile (and have found a few things here and there) but you’ve dug deep with these jewels. Most of the old footage is usually NYC stuff and some LA/Bay area docs from that time (which is also great but alwyays wanted to see more Chicago street culture in the 70s/80s. Great job …keep ‘em coming and thanks for sharing!!

[@JC-bf1pz]

I grew up at that time in Edgewater. We had the TJO's, Thorndale Jag Offs.

[@westlove1226]

@@JC-bf1pz yep led by Gary Kellas and Joe Ganci.

[@LastCommodore]

Ah, the Chicago that I grew up in ... I'm lucky since my parents sheltered me from this lifestyle.

[@sunstruck]

Very cool. Thanks for sharing.

[@td.2840]

The Great Fred Hampton was uniting all marginalized people (black, brown, white, etc). He began the original Rainbow Coalition. Let's not forget our history!

[@RealTalk_312]

Working 40 hours a week is crazy

[@westlove1226]

@@RealTalk_312 that ain’t shit, we double that in the Navy, slept anywhere we could find.

[@CascadiaCalvert]

As a child of the 60s this made me both nostalgic and depressed. I miss how people were a lot more, well, fun back then but am also depressed because, in some ways, so little has changed. People are still allowing "the pigs" to divide them.

[@gangsterbanger9487]

Check Out The Movie 🍿 🎦 Blue Collar 🎥 🍿 Starring Richard Pryor

[@chicago23cub]

Yep

[@AlmightyLatinKing]

The city has changed so much. We’ve been there for a long time.

[@sgtwurstmesser]

The guy who starts talking at 1:47 is my uncle. RIP 🙏

[@westlove1226]

@@sgtwurstmesser Gary Mason of the Palmer St. Gaylords?

[@sgtwurstmesser]

No. That isn't who I'm referring to.

[@sgtwurstmesser]

​@westlove1226 the man at 1:51 talking is not the person you just named.

[@westlove1226]

@ the dark haired one?

[@sgtwurstmesser]

​@@westlove1226Jeff, yes.

[@Monaedeezy]

Grew up on westside, hoping to see my house in the doc, pre white flight.

[@michaels6588]

THE ONLY THING THAT HAS CHANGED BETWEEN THEN AND NOW IS THAT WE HAVE COLOR CAMERAS NOW.

[@westlove1226]

@@michaels6588 They had color cameras back then as well, just more expensive.

[@Anthrax5010]

It is 2024 almost 2025 and I hear the same words from back then in video, “it all happened for nothing you know”

[@Tommi1981]

There's some beautiful pictures of some real authentic people 1-❤

[@hellasboy8243]

I was a Chicago cop for 27 years, just retired. Grew up with some gangbangers, I can honestly say that losers never change, these guys are dead or still bust outs, new generation is the same just less respect....garbage is garbage 🗑️

[@westlove1226]

@@hellasboy8243 is it true that 25th and 14th have a gang sweater collection room?

[@kidwithoutadoubt6330]

wow, chicago was always in the dirt. great upload 🔥.

[@InternationalJewByHenryFord]

You fight amongst each other while the jew robs you blind Revelation 3:9

[@michaelsmith473]

Not even close to true, Chicago is now bankrupt, not in 1974.

[@mrpep1976]

I’m 48 born in 76 and I grew up by Laramie and grand and I remember when that neighborhood was jousters a white gang. I had the white chuck taylors and the jousters told me to put blue laces on them so I did but didn’t know what it was I was like 7 so 1982 or so. I used to see TJN all over the place on the mailboxes and garages and buildings and for the longest I thought it was Tall Jouster Nation lol😂 I was old like 20s when I found out it was Taylor jouster nation. In like 90 maybe the pachucos took that neighborhood over and they’re still there. They were the only people on Fullerton throughout the 90s when it was wild. The northwest side died out now a days, I don’t see nobody hanging out like they used to in the 80s and 90s. Anyway, be good, stay good good and stay safe yall.

[@Bink316]

HSG (Howard Street Greasers). Roger's Park 70s

[@westlove1226]

@@Bink316 did you know Dago?

[@AnonymousAccount514]

this is awesome

[@xavierruiz9429]

Let wytes tell it they don't know why gangs exist. Whole time like everything Else they started it.

[@westlove1226]

@@xavierruiz9429 Chicago local whites know, the transplants couldn’t possibly know, they didn’t experience it.

[@Lisa-yu7bn]

Absolutley fascinating. I was born 1974 and grew up in Gage Park in the 70'', 80's and 90's. This is bringing back so many memories of the neighborhood changing from different gangs (Gaylords, Popes, latin kings, Two SIx, Sd's, Ambrose etc),different neighborhood businesses and stores (ex. Meyer Grocery store on 59 Kedzie and Gage Park Grocery 55 Fairfield replaced by multitude of small mexican storefront grocery stores) and finally the whole neighborhood leaving except for my family. BTW I am white and there was literally an unwritten (and never publicly stated) rule that u did not go east of Western on foot and the only time i ever really did cross that border was in a car to get to the Dan Ryan. I thought the whole city was like thet for the longest time lol I know its not funny. R other cities like this? Not sure, maybe but not to the extent...I dont think Anyway ☮ one love

[@westlove1226]

@@Lisa-yu7bn Boston is very similar to Chicago in that segregation regard, Redlining. Thanks for sharing your story!

[@RENEGADE-gk9hv]

I see the brothers in the park were Ridgeway Lord's... I heard they were crazy... This is before the 26 moved in...

[@westlove1226]

@@RENEGADE-gk9hv Correct, the Two-Six Boys were just getting started around 1974.

[@JG-ux7of]

Ridgeway Lords were all drugged up smoking Wicky Sticks and were always stoned or high on something. They used to kick my ass in the 80’s when I was a little kid because they knew my family were all Kings. They were a big influence on me becoming a King as young as I was. I was 12 when I became a King. After I became a King they didn’t mess with me anymore. In the 80’s they got destroyed by the Kings and later by The Two Six and Kings. SD’s, and RL’s got along well, I lived right between the SD’s and RL’s on 27th and Kildare the RL’s were on 27th and Kedvale and the SD’s we’re on 28th and Komensky. I was a Latin King and walked around without any fear of either. In 1993 the Two Six took over that entire area of K-town and my house got shot up and I had to move. Two Six were the fastest growing Nation in Chicago. They were Mexican and White and got along well with the GD’s. They had money and connections and a lot of people felt the Kings were bullying them. There were a lot of Party Crews throughout Chicago and everyone wore Lettermen Sweaters with their Crew’s patches, they called them Party Sweaters and the Latin Kings made many of them join or breakup their crews. Two Six had enough money and connections that they were able to fight back. They never took any territory from Kings but they continued to grow west into Cicero and popped up all over the city and suburbs. My entire family was Blvd Latin Kings and I spent as much time at my Grandmothers house as my own so I was always going to be a King.

[@westlove1226]

@ you explained it pretty well.

[@tecumsehcristero]

The Insane Popes were bitter enemies of Two Six in my old neighborhood in the 90’s

[@melissageiger71]

Where are they now?

[@Exquisite_The_P]

When gangs actually protected their neighborhoods

[@westlove1226]

@@Exquisite_The_P some still do.

[@thejman8734]

@@westlove1226name one

[@westlove1226]

@@thejman8734 C-Notes.

[@CanemBelliukbandogs]

Same problem today

[@davek5027]

I miss the days when blacks and whites could get together and agree on a whole lot of subjects. I believe the Obama years undid a lot of race relations, IMO.

[@danradman3161]

7:45 Powerful words !

[@elmerkilred159]

That's right. Inequality = more and more violence.

[@other4819]

it's interesting to hear about the jobs situation, 1970's same shit being discussed today....what's that tell ya? Tells me those in control still in control today.....and leaves all us fightin w each other....crazy.

[@juanmurillo3914]

No I grew up on 19 st,was shot wheni was 17, quit high school left chicago at the age of 18,join the army served for 25 years,I m 70 now,, have rental homes and apts, classic vehicles,two retirements,your choices put you in control

[@other4819]

@@juanmurillo3914 There is truth to that, good move, and thansk for your service

[@davidrhodes5457]

I want to Schurz in the 80s and I used to hang around with Brian Lang leader of the Kilbourn Park GayLords. Had some fucking good times back then, fist fights, ball bats and chains and knives about the craziest we ever got, once in a while there’d be a shooting or two but not like today

[@burnttoaster6313]

The Crips, Pirus and ESE said “no more fighting” in the 70s they said “we doin drive by”

[@crusher926]

These lords? The two six must have been forming at this time on sawyer and 26th

[@perryolsen1370]

If all he wants is a white fence it can't be that hard to get a white fence.

[@d3mist0clesgee12]

Since the dawn of man, there's always been gangs, its in the histroy books, interesting seeing these guys, I can dig it,

[@SPAZZYok]

Losing 5 or 6 dudes a year. Now it's 5 or 6 a week.

[@westlove1226]

@@SPAZZYok lol what… definitely not per week or even month.

[@SPAZZYok]

@@westlove1226Hmm? 617 homicides and 2450 shootings happened last year in Chicago. Am I lying then? Must it be everyone else BUT gangstas? Maybe spend a fourth of July weekend in Chicago's west or south side and see how many people are shot and killed.

[@SPAZZYok]

@@westlove1226 You're kidding right? Just last year over 600 people were killed and over 2000 shot. (look it up)

[@westlove1226]

@@SPAZZYok you’re referring to the citywide numbers? In the documentary they’re referring to losing that many members within their own club/gang.

[@SPAZZYok]

@@westlove1226 It says 43% of the homicides are gang related. Which out of say 600 is 248. This is homicides which also doesn't cover ODs etc... My point was it was quite different in the 60s and 70s. We can even just look at the fourth of July which yearly several people are shot. Just this year 109 people were shot and 19 of them died during the 4th of July weekend.

[@frankbrenner4852]

Royals and Gaylords were in my neighborhood as a kid. Some Kings but mostly the working-class white boy gangs. Montrose and Milwaukee in the 80s and 90s. My high school had 4 Corner Hustlers, LKs, and Vice Lords, and I made friends with a wacky Mexican kid in summer school who wanted to get me into the Spanish Gangster Disciples because I made good jokes and was laid back. Never happened. Wild times.

[@westlove1226]

@@frankbrenner4852 6 corners area? What Royals were ever near there? Popes hung at Kolmar and Dickinson Park, then Insane Deuces had Dickinson, and later Gaylords.

[@frankbrenner4852]

@@westlove1226 I am not sure, maybe they came from farther south like Belmont Cragin or Belmont Gardens. I was a kid and remember seeing a few dudes with Royals sweaters when we were playing Ms. Pac Man at Lupe's Disco Dogs ...

[@frankbrenner4852]

It was mostly a Gaylords hood for sure.

[@frankbrenner4852]

Brother, thank you for this channel and for putting obscure Chicago history on the map. I am subscribing.

[@westlove1226]

@ anytime, thank you for the support!

[@iampoweredup]

"MESSAGE!" 2:43

[@zazasnruntz7505]

A bullsht message the documented facts speak volumes about racial division in America

[@ToddTommow]

When someone tells you this group or that group is responsible for your problems, you should tighten your grip on your wallet.

[@jordancarlin9687]

6:30 my man got the original N word pass 😅

[@mookfarooq]

Phenomenal

[@billc3779]

The gang that we dealt with were the Egyptian Cobras

[@westlove1226]

What were you representing back then?

[@Fordakultr]

It's insane that these narratives are here stronger than ever til this day.

[@JuannyRum23]

5:12 we share much more then we don't

[@zazasnruntz7505]

Poor whytes who didn’t know how to use their privilege pretended to have things in common with less fortunate non white Americans

[@gibememoni]

@@zazasnruntz7505 theres no privilege, in fact you will get hired faster if you're a minority

[@v.a.993]

Chicago people are THE REALEST!

[@LinneaBuras]

The Gaylord’s became cops in the suburbs. There might be a few left at Sun City in Huntley or high end assisted living in McHenry county.

[@westlove1226]

@@LinneaBuras ever considered the possibly they still have younger members representing in Chicago…?

[@MichaelWindels-jc8hf]

Wow!!! 😮

[@ItsPainnz]

history only please

[@indionopalez3716]

Bien hecho hermano...

[@jamminlemur]

what is the name of the documentary? where can i find the full thing?

[@westlove1226]

@@jamminlemur Trick Bag (1974)

[@Bink316]

Simon City Royals. I remember Tuffy Gilfillan, Arab. Lake View neighborhood. Basement slow dancing. Latin Kings were the rivals. I was 16 then.

[@westlove1226]

@@Bink316 Rest in Peace to Tuffy and his brother Bimbo.

[@tecumsehcristero]

I lived on 26th street in the 90’s and it was all Mexican in the 90’s and it was all Two Six and Latin Kings fighting in Little Village

[@culture2culture]

These ethnic white working/middle class gangs had a major part in contributing to the hyper segregation of Chicago(before they fought each other). The documentary doesn't talk about the role of how the federal and state actors(both parties), the CPD, the Daley regime, the Chicago Mafia, Chicago Neo-nazis, KKK affiliated hells angel types, real estate/gentrifiers/developers, local businesses, and basically the overall majority of middle and upper class everyday midwestern American citizens tried to keep out "new" residents, particularly Black and Puerto Rican folks who were most targeted. Chicago has still maintained the "black belt", hyper-segregation, white flight, and actively aids in gentrifying every Boricua enclave that Puerto Ricans are pushed/displaced into(New York areas too like Spanish Harlem, etc.). These are all researchable facts. To be fair, now racialized groups with means are leaving to the suburbs and cite "too much crime in the city". NOTHING has changed. In fact in has gotten worse and you can't tell cats what is REALLY going on because it is denied by most for the goal of "making money". What money?

[@ICee712]

What neighborhood were you from?

[@jamesk5989]

There’s a reason why they wanted to keep y’all out look how every single place whites leave from and blacks or Ricans take over turns into name one town hood city etc they haven’t destroyed after taking over

[@southside1975]

Much love to all my Latin Folks

[@BaseballPlayer0]

is u a king, N

[@SigmaCicadaCatcher]

Hell yeah Amor!!!!! From Logan square, always in the Right…..

[@FreeYourMind2387]

Folks woRld

[@agquaproductions9361]

Idk why I expected the 70s to be way less ghetto.

[@mariocisneros911]

I remember there were these same gangs near 10 years earlier. But it was safer than without guns. They just messed around with other gangs not the public. 3:53

[@gfunk5994]

I have some old school sweaters

[@westlove1226]

@@gfunk5994 so do i, which ones do you have?

[@Maaaattologyyyy]

I dig it

[@ricardolorrio8228]

cut to 50 years... and....?

[@anonamus9677]

Do you see warriors? Do you see what happens when you mess with the gaylords!

[@djpeekay25]

do they tickle you with their feather dusters?😂

[@harryknutts8428]

aint we lucky we got em goooooooooooood times

[@stevenotero2627]

Temporary layoff ... good times... easy credit rip off ... goodtimes ... scratching and a scraping ... goodtimes ... ain't we lucky we got em ... goodtimes !!!!!!! 😎🎭✌️

[@biffmayback]

I just want a sweater

[@franktabor3150]

They sound smart

[@mikeortiz421]

This is fuckin crazy.

[@technum1]

Mid 70s, Watching Lithuanians and polish folks from Brighton park have success and these minority groups have a difficult time I start to understand the issues from the 80s. I start to understand the down fall of the south side. Money left, ignorance and uneducated moved in. Hope they can turn it around and be successful.

[@v.a.993]

The Obama Library is going to gentrify the entire south side.

[@mathewgrelr7084]

I grew up in bright park nice area basically like suburbs

[@pitbossea]

Drake sampled that intro song

[@BB019thS]

What part of the video

[@westlove1226]

@@BB019thSthe very beginning song was used in his Hotline Bling hit song.

[@javeofficial]

🔥🔥