12/25/2023 0 Comments Vice lords tattoo![]() ![]() The Black Souls gang had spread to West Garfield Park just west of Pulaski but north of the Supreme Gangsters as they were neighbors of the Four Corner Hustlers as well. This original settlement of the Supreme Gangsters/Gangster Disciples was part of what drove the Four Corner Hustlers to be founded to oppose this group. The Supreme Gangster absorbed the Pimps and Jives within no time, and this made them more powerful, and this was the beginning of a long and permanent legacy of the Gangster Disciples in the West Garfield Park community. The Supreme Gangster mainly conflicted with the Jive Fives and the Black Pimps, and both those gangs were enemies of the original Fours too. The Supreme Gangster were known drug dealers and recruited aggressively on the west side. One gang that was on a heavy recruiting drive by 1968 was the Supreme Gangsters, a south side gang, that started their west side campaign in September of 1967 at Gladys and Keeler which was just a block or two away from the original Four Corner Hustlers. Any violence inflicted on rival gangs was acceptable too, shooting, stabbing, cracking skulls, whatever needed to be done to show who was running those corners was acceptable. The Four Corner Hustlers had strict rules to abide by, no drug dealing, no drug using (not even Marijuana), no mugging, no burglarizing, but shop lifting and stealing from delivery trucks was fully acceptable. This idea was all put together at Delano playground at the corner of Springfield and Wilcox. ![]() ![]() Instead, they were going to beat down any gang that came in there acting destructive. They formed a fighting gang not a drug dealing gang or a gang that destroyed their own neighborhood. Within no time the Four Corner Hustlers flipped the West Garfield Park Unknown Vice Lords which pretty much closed the chapter on Unknown Vice Lord influence in West Garfield Park. Freddie Gage would become second in command over this new organization. They organized it with another Unknown Vice Lord, 15-year-old Freddie Gage, Richard “Lefthand Goodman,” and Monroe “Money” Banks and approximately 7 others. That is quite a bit of territory for a brand new gang but 17 year old Walter Wheat who had just left the Unknown Vice Lords, (born April 11, 1951), and another Vice Lord named 15 year old Marvin Evans made it happen. The territory was Madison Street on the north to Jackson Boulevard on the south, and from Independence on the east to Pulaski Road on the west and all the street corners in between including Jackson and Springfield, Springfield and Adams, Springfield and Wilcox, Springfield and Monroe, Springfield and Madison, Madison and Hamlin, Monroe and Hamlin, Hamlin and Wilcox, Adams and Hamlin, Jackson and Hamlin, Pulaski and Monroe, Pulaski and Wilcox and Pulaski and Adams. The idea of the Four Corner Hustlers was about one main thing, neighborhood protection, and that did not mean only protection for their members but for everyone that lived in this territory. There was indeed a time back in the year 1968 that two Vice Lord teenage boys had an idea of how to protect a certain area in the West Garfield Park neighborhood from invaders from outside the area that threatened the neighborhood with drug dealing, gangbanging and violence. ![]() Number 4, black diamond 1986-present, crescent moon, cane, top hat, gloves, playboy bunny 1978-present, “solid”Ī quote from the Chicago Tribune on August 19, 1994, sums it up best for the early history of the Four Corner Hustlers, “There was a time when the Four Corner Hustlers actually stood for four corners, representing a meager six square blocks on the West Side.” (Papajohn, Chicago Tribune Aug 19, 1994). Black and brown 1968-1978 Black and gold 1978-present Black and red 1978-presentīlack Diamond, Crescent Moon, Cane, Top Hat, Gloves, and Playboy Bunny ![]()
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