included a pool hall, 2 Tastee Freeze parlors, Simone Comsmetic(Cosmetic shop for African American which was funded by Sammy Davis Jr), the West Side Paper stock(a company designed to encourage recycling), teen hang outs(For teen to complete homework instead of hanging out in the streets), Malcom X GED program(Helped individuals whom were willing to better themselves attain their GED). Some of the establishment created by CVL Inc. The grants were used to open legit businesses, hang outs, social clubs, educational program, and recreational programs among others. where they were able to obtain grants to help improve their community. Leaders of the group went to Washinton D.C. started seeing their vision becoming a reality. Dawley shared Gore’s vision of turning the Vice Lords into a positive force, following the incorporation of the gang, they soon decided they no longer wanted to be known as a gang.Ĭonservative Vice Lord Incorporated (CVL Inc.) along with David Dawley, the first white Vice Lord member of the gang. Prior to joining the Vice Lords, Bobby Gore was a member of the ‘Clover-African American Athletic Gang’ which was located on the West Side of Chicago. Bobby Gore, an original member of the gang whom has been with it since 1958 was soon appointed as the Chief of the Conservative Vice Lords. Their main goal was to become a gang with the sole purpose of helping their community and the youths living in it. Their attempt to turn themselves into a positive gang didn’t start happening until 1967. Following their name changed, the Vice Lords faced numerous challenges in the 1960’s which included harsh living conditions, and their members continuing their criminal activities despite turning conservative and trying to be positive. The leaders met up to reevaluate their future, they believed the violent route the Vice Lords was taking was wrong, and believed they should be conservative in their ways hence the new name ‘Conservative Vice Lord’. The Vice Lords changed their name to the ‘Conservative Vice Lords’ in a 1964 meeting between the leaders of 8 of the 26 groups of the Vice Lords. People Nation, Four Corner Hustlers, Black P.Stones, Bloods, Zoe Pound, Latin Kings, Black Guerrilla Family, and Black Mafia Family, Mickey Cobrasįolk Nation, Gangster Disciples, Black Disciples, Crips, Surenos, White Supremacist gangs, & Juggalos Vice Lord is one of the founding member of the People Nation, a multi-gang alliance which rivals the Folk Nation alliance.ĥ Point Star, Cane, Playboy Bunny, Top Hat (Left Side)ĭrug trafficking, robbery, extortion, murder, prostitution, & Boosting By the 1960s, the Vice Lords were soon labeled as one of the most violent gangs in Chicago, and its membership started soaring due to its fierce reputation and the hopelessness within the area they were operating. The Vice Lords soon developed a reputation for mugging, robbing, murdering, and beating people without regard the gang also took part in multiple bloody gang wars with rival gangs in their area. The Lawdale neighborhood, filled with poverty and hopelessness, soon had another epic battle coming their way as members of the Vice Lord Nation turned into violent criminals. The Vice Lords was founded by ‘Edward Pepilow Perry’ in 1957 and Alfonso Alfred became its first chief.Īs the boys started being released from the reformatory in 1958, many of the members took the gang to the street and made 16th and Lawdale their first neighborhood. Charles reformatory for boys due to mischief, a portion of the boys from the Lawdale neighborhood decided to join together and form the ‘Vice Lords’ with the hope of uniting Northside, Westside, and South Side Lawdale boys.
As members of the 14th Street Clovers became incarcerated in the St. The gang, thought regarded as one of the most violent gangs around, started as an athletic club known then as ‘The 14th Street Clovers’. The Vice Lords also known as ‘Almighty Vice Lord Nation’ is a gang founded in Illinois in the 1950s and is currently regarded as the second largest gang in Chicago with an estimated 30,000+ members.
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