The Cicero Vice Lords came about in the year 1968 when black families and Vice Lord gang members first moved into the Austin neighborhood. When the men arrived at Gluckman’s office at 2409 W. Warren Ave they demanded Gluckman get in the vehicle as they held him at gunpoint, Gluckman refused because of his heart condition so the men forced him into the vehicle into the trunk alongside two of his female patients. Pep assembled this group of seven into their own organization geared at organizing their work details and pulling strings to get jobs they favored. IIVLs set up lots of sections outside of Chicago as they opened strong in the suburbs of Joliet, Elgin and Aurora just to name some. After failed negotiations to get Possum to flip back to Vice Lord Pep intensified the ongoing war that had started after he was locked up and all through the winter in 1960 the Vice Lords kept coming at the Morphines until they finally surrendered and their leadership, including Possum, joined the Vice Lords, thus, dissolving the Morphines (Source: A Nation of Lords: The Autobiography of the Vice Lords, Second Edition). Their headquarters, located near Pulaski and 16th Street, is referred to as the "Holy City". Many Vice Lord factions have trails of violence over the years while running drug empires and killing without a second thought, but the Executioners lived up to their name and were perhaps the most vicious killers in the entire Almighty Vice Lord nation. Help us, Lord our God, for we rely on You, and in Your Name we have come against this vast army. ... and the grace of Him who has ever guided the destiny of this Nation, I have faith that the day will come when we put these challenging times in the past and emerge stronger and better than ever before. I highly recommend the book “A Nation of Lords” written by David Dawley as he did an autobiography on the stories told to him in the words of the founders and original leaders like Peppilow Perry. Most blacks were crowding into the south side of the city into areas like Bronzeville, Oakland, Washington Park and some other various south side neighborhoods. I have never found any evidence of a Lord Casper or the Gangster Stone Vice Lords. Almighty Vice Lord Nation - Symbols and Emblems. He wasn’t out long before he was back in later that year and he remained there until July 1964 when he was freshly 17 years old. The Rockefeller Foundation approved the grant. p. 265. The Vice Lord new symbols were admired as Maurice Calloway came up with the idea for the top hat, cane and gloves. 7. Just in the Austin community alone the Vice Lords took a firm grip on the “Heroin Superhighway” trade all through the streets of this west side community. They would attack with guns, do a shooting, then jump into getaway cars real fast. In 1957, the Vice Lords gang was founded by several African American youths originally from … The Vice Lord nation has spread all over the United States and has rooted itself heavily in all the Chicagoland suburbs, even in mostly white and affluent suburbs. In 1961, Pep got out of jail and he found the nation to be in very good shape as “Sugar Cane” made things more organized than ever. in 1958 3. [2] Their total membership is estimated to be as many as 30,000. •Almighty Vice Lord Nation• is a group on Roblox owned by counterfires with 52 members. One being rehabilitation programs from the penal institutions as tax dollars pay for inmates to receive these programs. 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. It was at this time in 1964 when the Vice Lords were dividing into factions that Earl Good wanted to establish his own branch of murder-for-hire elite Vice Lords out of East Garfield Park. In November of 1969, Bobby Gore was taken away in handcuffs accused of murder. Vice Lords also settled outside of the projects in the Near North Side tougher areas near the Ranch Triangle and near the shabby areas near North Avenue. Even in West Humboldt Park Vice Lords dominated the entire southern section of the neighborhood as they violently went to war with Hispanic gangs from the neighborhood. 12 talking about this. Pep somehow arranged for Cal to be transferred to his cottage and the boys came together at Harding. Once such incident made the news in October of 1969 when two members of the Executioners murdered two men and beat another man for no reason outside of the Tea Box Lounge that was located at Ogden Ave and Trumbull. 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. Patterson and several others were convicted of drug conspiracy. The Mafia Insane Vice Lords were created in the year 1973 by King Troy Martin in the Austin neighborhood.