The buildings where these places once were thriving with hope now became depressed dilapidated buildings just like how they were left before CVL Inc bought them in the late 1960s including the pool room at 3655 West 16th Street that Vice Lords bought with their own hard-earned money in 1966. In the year 1965, Willie Lloyd now took over leadership of the UVLs and hyped them up into a massive recruitment drive and soon UVL numbers swelled into the hundreds making them one of the larger branches besides the Conservative Vice Lords. All the Vice Lords were wearing the sweaters disguising themselves as Cobras and Chaplains until suddenly, they started beating on actual Cobras and Chaplains. In the year 1983, King Neal passed away but the TVLs only grew stronger in the 1980s as they settled on the south side of Chicago in the Altgeld Gardens projects in the Riverdale neighborhood and in the Roseland neighborhood (Wild Hundreds). in 1958 The YMCA then called the police on the Vice Lords and Pep. I have heard once that the original name was the “Harlem Mafia Vice Lords” but I can’t confirm that, nor have I ever found any evidence to support that. There was a time in history where our country had faith in the Vice Lords and even offered assistance; as a result, something positive and marvelous developed from it that helped west side youths live better lives. Vice Lords also had aggressive recruiting measures they adopted back in 1959 where they would approach individuals or maybe a small group whether they were already in a gang or not and ask them to become Vice Lords. The story dates all the way to at least the early 1950s when the Imperial Chaplains formed on the west side of Chicago. For the first years from 1958-1964 the Vice Lords didn’t really claim certain territory, they simply moved about the west side and terrorized any other gangs away from trying to establish certain territories. Just to be clear though Vice Lords are not Muslims, only Islamic doctrines were adopted but not the whole faith. Vice Lords – Identifiers: Colors Red and Black Five-point stars Numbers 5 and 3-22-12 Letters VL, AVLN, VLN, CVL Pyramid with eye above, top hat and cane Five-point crown Playboy bunny facing left UNLV team wear Louis Vitton brand (VL) “Conservative Vice Lords” People Nation affiliation One day they were hanging out in one area then the next it was elsewhere, this made it tough for police to track their haunts. This also caused the Vice Lords to be bigger on the streets because these flipped members came home as Vice Lords too. Earl acted up in school and often ran away from school and from home until he was taken in the Chicago Parental School program in 1958 but he continued to run away. In 1951, the Clovers and Chaplains migrated to North Lawndale but were not big-time gangbanging groups until 1954 when the North Lawndale and Near West Side neighborhoods began to set off with several fist fighting gangs as territories were now being set. The overall adopting of the Islamic doctrine brought a spiritual aspect to the Almighty Vice Lord nation which provided peaceful spiritual guidance for members to act outside of criminal endeavors. In the late 60s and early 70s the Cicero Vice Lords made good friends with the Insane Vice Lords, Imperial Vice Lords and Central Vice Lords from the same neighborhood. by Edwin Marion Perry, Toehold, Bobby Bonds, Ernest Wren, and Leonard Calloway CIVLs have since all flipped Mafia Insane Vice Lord in the 2000s decade. He became somewhat reckless while addicted and much of the nation wanted him removed from power as he was now viewed as a high risk. Each episode is a series of RANDOM clips and songs from each gang that i put together for people (even me) to judge who "drillin" the hardest. Authorities allege they supplied the street dealers and supervised the drug sales. After this, the streets of North Lawndale slowly began to improve. I really don’t have a lot of information on this Vice Lord branch and this group is long forgotten along with many other old VL factions, but it is worth mentioning because they were part of the “Insane” Vice Lord alliance. HuffPost is part of Verizon Media. White Boys in the Hood: The Chicago Greaser, The meaning behind the Folk and People alliances, Kickin’ it old school with old school names, Selling the dream – Design 1002- Jade wood, Founded Late in the year 1961 they were the first gang that would not let their name die but were willing to become Vice Lords finally. The men beat the man to death with a pistol and stole over $1,000 in cash. The Vice Lords then ordained Bennie as a Vice Lord leader of his own group of Vice Lords that he called “Apache Vice Lords,” Bennie was only 13 and the youngest Vice Lord leader in the whole Vice Lord nation. Two other brothers were Eddie Clay and Harold Clay, but I have no information on them. This Vice Lord faction whether it was named Harlem Mafia Vice Lords or Ebony Vice Lords was approved by Vice Lord Supreme Chief Samuel “Madhi” Smith. The Vice Lords wanted the Cobras to completely leave the west side of Chicago entirely especially since the Vice Lords now had dominance over west of Pulaski in K-town. Now they can be of use, to help move drugs through suburban outposts or to break into homes and steal firearms for organizational use or for trade. The men were tipped off that a 73-year-old blind man kept lots of money in his home. I have witnessed over time how ex-gang members that even have multiple felonies rehabilitate themselves and obtain decent employment. I hope that you as the reader can gather a better understanding about what the Vice Lords have built and what their true goals are despite the harsh roads many factions and individual members have chosen. The Executioner Vice Lords had started a murder-for-hire business in 1969 and a shooting with the Roman Saints in 1966 along with some other small stories was just about all that made the papers in a negative light in these years. The Traveling Vice Lords are one of Chicago's largest street gangs and currently control territory on the city's West Side. Renegade Vice Lords, Imperial Insane Vice Lords, Traveling Vice Lords and Conservative Vice Lords were known to be the biggest project dwelling factions on the west side as they had a major stake in the ABLA projects, Rockwell Gardens and Henry Horner projects. The Vice Lords fought well and escaped the party but couldn’t win against this larger gang, this is when they decided it was time to grow much larger. Even after 1969 when our city began to slowly turn their backs on CVL Inc the CVLs still kept trying to keep it going in the early 1970s and tried to keep up the goals that were laid forth beginning in 1964 but as time went on it became an impossibility and with the end of Alfonso Alford in 1974 CVL Inc came to an end. By this time, Marvin Clay was running most of EVL operations while Roosevelt and Artur were in prison. They beat on the Knights for a month until every member of the Knights flipped to Vice Lord (Source: A Nation of Lords: The Autobiography of the Vice Lords, Second Edition). At some point in time the MIVLs settled on the south side of Chicago at 45th and Leclaire in the Garfield Ridge neighborhood. Willard Court was still popping with EVLs and Jerry Clay was residing at 933 N. Willard and some EVLs lived at 929 N. Willard with their grandmother. Later that night Dr. King summoned Edwin Perry, Bobby Gore and a few other leaders to where he was staying and told them he didn’t back that statement about not needing the gangs for support instead he expressed that he needed them and after that the Vice Lords and their allies marched alongside Dr. King. I don’t know the whole story but eventually members of the Dirty Sheiks and the Wailing Shebas created the Imperial Chaplains and 14th Street Clovers along Halsted Street by the late 1940s or early 1950s. UTVLs operated at the Courtway building at this intersection for years and sold kilos of heroin from 1984 to 1990 according to court documents. After robbing the man, they tied him up then went back to looking for Washington’s room. In 1969 the war on gangs that Mayor Daley declared caused all gangs to be classified under one umbrella regardless of the actions of the individual organizations and the Vice Lords were swept under the same umbrella as the Black P Stone organization and the government looked to lesson what the Vice Lords could do accept for coming down to pay a visit to the Vice Lord open house or to chat for a while with CVL leaders, this was a grave mistake that only ended up costing our society dearly. Peppilow wanted to become a member of one of the larger outfits at the time the Imperial Chaplains but when he visited their lair to speak to “Big John” the leader of the Chaplains, Big John said, “We don’t want no punk motherfucker in the organization.” It is a mystery why Big John wouldn’t let him in since Pep was six foot one and 190 pounds, fast on his feet and with his hands. They had the pools, the theaters and the best parks and had the most girls, this drove the Vice Lords to fight them tooth and nail while simultaneously warring with multiple other gangs. I also want to mention Pep got his revenge on Big John for disrespecting him back in 1957, I don’t know all the details, but he got even. I am not even sure if the Executioners had any operations in the city of Chicago after 1975, they may have gone extinct in Chicago by then. It is also one of the founding members of the People Nation multi-gang alliance. Its total membership is estimated to be between 30,000 and 35,000. The Vice Lords are the second largest and oldest African American street gang in Chicago. The southside Vice Lords were hardened killers of some of the most dangerous Vice Lords known. RVLs had a breakaway group known as the “Madd Renegade Vice Lords” that united heavily with a breakaway Traveling Vice Lord group known as “Maniac Traveling Vice Lords.”  The Madd Renegades operated only in the Rockwell Gardens but when the buildings were torn down the MRVLs may have possibly become extinct. CVL also opened in the Lawndale Gardens projects in the Little Village community and in West Englewood, Auburn Gresham, South Chicago and Midway Airport area that included a strong buildup in the Leclaire Courts projects alongside Four Corner Hustlers and Black P Stones. When he first got there, he was confronted by an older guy that tried to bully him; Pep ended up beating the man up on three occasions until he gained a reputation in the adult side. In 1968, Vice Lords began appearing in the Austin neighborhood at Cicero and Jackson which was the spot that the first black families moved to in the neighborhood. I have also done extensive research piecing together articles and court cases to bring you the histories to the best of my knowledge. Not only were the Vice Lords classified with more criminal gangs, there was also a lack of patience with bestowing the Vice Lords the opportunity to keep the west side streets safe. Maurice Miller was the first one to get out of the reformatory and the deal was he was supposed to be the first one to spread the word about the Vice Lords to the streets in exchange for having the “Conservative” part of the name and he was the first one to inform the streets about the Vice Lords, however, the nation was not really put out there yet until all the boys got out by the Autumn of 1958. The west side of Chicago was still very white, and these neighborhoods did not have much of a black population. Maybe for once put down the pistol and pick up a spoon and feed soup to the poor residents of the community. Next up were the Braves. The Vice Lords were full of aggression and loved to teach each other to box. Some have regarded Wallace as the founder, but he was not the founder, maybe a co-founder but not the founder. The Schlitz Beer man came to make a delivery and the two men made him join the others so they could rob him. It became time to show power in a different way by showing restraint and asking for help from the city and government. Both these gangs would take over these neighborhoods as the big outfits in the community as the Sheiks and Shebas ended. The funding that was received was often mishandled and mismanaged by other groups such as Bootstrap which caused lots of confusion and frustrations. In the year 1966, the Vice Lord’s new cause was bringing in more positive attention as they began to work very closely with Egyptian Cobras, Black P Stones and Black Disciples on bettering their communities and putting an end to violence. No matter how you look at it, the money filtering to the Stones helped the community and helped south side black youths as youth centers were opened, businesses that provided jobs, G.E.D programs and job training centers helped save many youths on the south side of Chicago but the illegal endeavors were highlighted above all and became a big part of Mayor Daley’s war on gangs. The Vice Lords listened well and shot “Stump Daddy’s” brother “Pop Eye,” Stump Daddy was a Cobra leader. Only a few times were they in the negative spot light during these years. The Vice Lords were well taken care of getting preference of the best clothes, the best food and the best sleeping arrangements. The favor was for a Delores Townsend who was a recently fired office manager at the doctor office of Doctor Lawrence Gluckman. The Mafia Insane Vice Lords were created in the year 1973 by King Troy Martin in the Austin neighborhood. RVLs had the buildings by Jackson and Campbell and Madison and Rockwell in the Near West Side community. After this they laid low traveling about the west side avoiding the Imperial Chaplains leading the Chaplains to believe they had won. Vice Lords continued to attempt positive changes in the years of 1969-1973. Vice Lords became very popular as the year 1959 progressed. Cardell’s crew had gotten revenge by kidnapping two young teen boys working drug spots for Lloyd’s faction and they were dragged to railroad trucks as they cried and begged for their lives, but they were both shot to death execution style. At this point, the best way for Vice Lords to survive in a depressed land was to sell drugs, especially heroin which became the lead economic vein for the organization. Calloway was a member of the Imperial Chaplains and was Pep’s sponsor to gain membership into the Chaplains but of course that didn’t go as planned back in 1957. Vice Lords acted as kind of like police or guardian angels watching over businesses and people in the neighborhood so harm would not come. The capes were a total Vice Lord thing and often used to hide shotguns and other guns, that’s why police made Vice Lords take them off (Source: A Nation of Lords: The Autobiography of the Vice Lords, Second Edition). The Vice Lord struggle has often been in the same class as the Black Panthers or even the Black P Stones, but this is different because the Vice Lords had the goal of fully working with the white man and the government, police etc…to get a helping hand to rebuild the North Lawndale community and create a sustainable economy. This is until the older guys came up with an idea based upon how they were seeing the destruction and damage they had caused in the community. During the brawling Bow Chest emerged; as soon as Bow Chest emerged Pep and McLamore abducted him and pinned him. Vice Lords also shouted down messages through the toilets and air vents when guards were not standing around. Original member and co-founder Leonard Calloway was convicted of murder in 1970 taking down another CVL leader. To make a long story short, redlining practices on the west side of Chicago successfully brought down the value of entire neighborhoods and houses with a swift motion causing white people to move out very fast and predatory real estate agents moved in black families while sticking them with higher mortgages. In the southern United States jobs were a lot scarcer for black families and many were still living in extreme poverty without many essentials like plumbing, adequate housing or even clean water to drink at times. If I recall, the Chicagogang.org guy gave me the email he received on them and I ran with it. It was then in 1964, that the leaders realized they could exert control over these young boys and girls and perhaps turn them around in another direction. When Mcgee arrived, Martin came out of another roof with a large silver knife and stabbed Mcgee in the chest a few times according to court documents. After these sticks ups in 1979 and 1980 the Conservative Vice Lords were able to establish a section on the south side in the “Pocket Town” area of the Greater Grand Crossing neighborhood as a result of Black P Stones flipping to CVL to avoid the sanctions by the El Rukns, this was a way for the old BPS to keep operations going under the guise as CVLs. Good was paroled in July of 1975 and hooked back up with Edward Spicer and the two men immediately began planning robberies in several areas including downstate in East St. Louis. Leaders learned the white man was not the enemy and perhaps all those racist wealthy white folks were just uneducated about what was going in their community and that’s why there were always open houses on 16th Street. There were now Vice Lord groups located in the Near West Side community and living in the A.B.L.A projects, Rockwell Gardens projects and the Henry Horner Homes. This is indeed one of the deepest histories of the Vice Lord factions. Vice Lords also made their way into the Marshall Field Apartments in the Old Town section of the Near North Side, this was a public housing unit located at Hudson and Evergreen. Despite the investigations the police sweeps continued into 1958 and several black youths were arrested, and many were sent to juvenile facilities. Not all Vice Lords were on board with this but for the most part all the North Lawndale CVLs were all about this positive direction and most of the criminal elements in the Vice Lords existed in other neighborhoods or within other branches of the nation. UVLs have expanded to operate at Chicago Ave and Laramie (Dirty UVLs), Kilpatrick and Maypole and 5th City (Shotgun UVLs). In the year 1972 these three Vice Lord factions established an official alliance within the Vice Lord nation called “Insane” orchestrated by the Insane Vice Lords, this is when the Cicero Vice Lords became “Cicero Insane Vice Lords.”. The Vice Lord nation has grown so powerful because of the goals the nation has tried to accomplish over time. The Vice Lords looked up to Alford as he was charismatic, tough and quick tempered. The seven Vice Lords were entering this world on the streets of North Lawndale where there were several gangs that had combined membership into the thousands, some gangs like the Clovers, Cobras and Chaplains had hundreds of members each. Impoverished families had no choice but to live in these conditions because they couldn’t afford anywhere else to go and other mostly white neighborhoods were hostile toward black families even after the covenants were lifted. Bennie Lee was the founder of this faction of the Vice Lords after he moved to Austin at Cicero Ave and Jackson in 1967. Business Medical Abbreviations Military Abbreviations Technology Slang Terms. Also by the later 1960s UVLs settled into the Wicker Park neighborhood around Evergreen and Hoyne where they fought with all white and Hispanic gangs. Leading off the new year of 1967, Chicago area was socked with horrible snow storms and blinding blizzards that left much of the city buried. He also was known for getting new guys in line coming into the facility. Now in 1958 the two were in Harding Cottage together and decided to clique up. The Vice Lords then kept on hitting the Cobras hard until when Pep got out the Cobras were indeed softened up and even backed off (Source: A Nation of Lords: The Autobiography of the Vice Lords, Second Edition). The money was used to open multiple legitimate companies and community centers. With any other mob on this site I do not break down faction histories, but the Vice Lords will have the exclusive page where I break down as many of the factions as I can all on this page and tell all their stories. Rioters only targeted white owned businesses anyway and after the riots white business owners stopped doing business in the area. The UVLs seemed to be on a violent rampage and much of this was incited by their leader Willie Lloyd who was also developing a reputation for being a violent gang leader. There is no entire black gang the Vice Lords have 100% beef with. The only time the name was brought up at all was to attach fear and gang awareness. the Vice Lords and all the branches within the VLN have morphed into major criminal organizations on the streets, however, according to true Vice Lord doctrines and beliefs the Vice Lord Nation is not built upon criminal activity and condemns such acts at least since the late 1960s. But … The “Vice Lord” name was created by Pep after he looked up in the dictionary that “Vice” meant to have a tight grip on something and not let go, then of course they would be “Lords.”  The ideas from Wren and Cal were to be called “Imperial Vice Lords” to pay tribute to the gang that each of them belonged to and that Pep had previously worked hard to join up with but now Pep had a vendetta against Big John and the Chaplains and wanted nothing to do with them so “Conservative Vice Lord” was the chosen name. Did they like the theater? The spirit has not completely died in the VLN it is just not in the newspaper and not talked about or barely funded because we have been informed that the VLN has the goals to kill and sell drugs, which is a blanket statement and generalization without hearing out what the many elder spokesmen have in mind. In October of 1993, another attempt was made on Willie as his car was shot about 30 times, but Willie was only shot in the leg while his girlfriend and his daughter once again survived unscathed. The Vice Lords also had all the intelligence on all the other gangs in the jails and prisons. Did they like playing at the park more? More troubles fell upon Willie Lloyd in 1989 when he was arrested and convicted on illegal weapons charges possessing a Mac-10 machine gun and for attempting to shoot down a police officer. I personally believe Artur Clay joined the Vice Lords in a different neighborhood before the family moved to Willard Court and was part of another VL branch. Early Good then decided in January of 1982 that he no longer wanted to be a Vice Lord and was transferred out of Menard to get away from the gang population. The Clover toughness and dominance caught the attention of the Chicago police in March of 1957 when the police began their massive crackdown on black Chicago street gangs on the west side, mainly Clovers and Egyptian Cobras. The neighborhood lacked parks and recreation leaving many black youths facing boredom, poverty and frustration. Since the plan failed, they needed to execute both the women and that’s when Willie Carter said to the women, “Which one of you bitches wanna die first?” then he shot both of them in the head execution style according to court documents. The Traveling Vice Lords got their start in the year 1964 when the Vice Lords broke up into factions. Vice Lords decided not to partake in the rioting as an organization, but they did nothing to stop it like they did in the summer of 67. You may shake your head at the dilapidated homes and abandoned buildings, but you must understand it costs money to renovate your home, money that many homeowners and landlords receive as loans but with redlining tactics certain neighborhoods are zoned with this red tape to not allow those loans. (Source: A Nation of Lords: The Autobiography of the Vice Lords, Second Edition). The ultimate failure rests upon the city and the Mayor at the time that didn’t adhere enough to Vice Lord pleas for assistance with change. It is true that the federal government ended up gathering evidence against the Black P Stones, however, much of the funding the Stones received was still going to good use, just not all of it. The Vice Lords moving into the area started their own faction naming themselves after Cicero Avenue where blacks were moving near to. In the 1980s and 1990s, Vice Lords began heavily engaged in the drug wars on the west side, south side, north side and in the Cabrini Green projects up north. He found a Vice Lord that looked just like him and had him dress like Pep and act like him for three months, the guards never noticed, and the man was released when Pep’s sentence was over, not a word ever said. During that summer Vice Lords, Cobras and Saints policed the neighborhood and broke up gang meetings and even stopped the Black Panthers from creating a plan to destroy businesses and begin looting. This section was cherished by Willie Lloyd and is long standing section for the UVLs. The former local kingpin of the nationwide Vice Lords street gang was executed while he sat in a white Cadillac in Memphis last week, sparking … Yes, being in a gang can help these men learn job training skills.