chicago gang - from our story 'Compliments of Chicago – Gang Business Cards from the 1970s and 1980s'

‘The slogan says it all. The Villa Lobos were from the Little Village part of South Lawndale. The name translates from Spanish as “Village Wolves”, which makes sense given their location. The Villa Lobos were enemies of Two Six and therefore allies of the Latin Kings, and eventually joined the People Nation – a gang alliance formed in 1978 in response to alliances in the prison system, extending later to the streets. These alliances’ symbols can be found on many cards, including pitchforks, crowns, devil’s horns and tails, 3D pyramids, crescent moons, and five- or six-pointed stars and crowns’

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