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- Chicago is considered the most gang -occupied city in the United States, with 150,000 gang-affiliated tenants, representing more than 100 gangs. Gang warfare and retaliation are common in Chicago. Gangs were responsible for 61% of the homicides in Chicago in 2011.
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Aug 31, 2021 · Over the past 30 years, most of Chicago’s historic gangs have deteriorated because of federal racketeering and drug prosecutions. The breakdown in leadership structures — and the city’s destruction of public housing projects — resulted in gangs splintering.
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Nov 26, 2023 · Neoliberal education reforms that closed many schools in poor neighborhoods is just one form of deprivation that has intensified gang violence in Chicago, forcing students to cross through rival territory to reach their new schools.
Jan 1, 2020 · Rank-and-file gang members increasingly rebelled against their marginal positions, remaining gang leaders eventually lost control over their groups, and Chicago’s black street gangs effectively shattered.
The nature of gang violence in Chicago has been changing, but policies and practices toward it have not. This was the main conclusion of “The Fracturing of Gangs Conference,” held at the Great Cities Institute in Spring 2018.
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Apr 21, 2021 · As gangs were targeted by police and federal authorities using anti-racketeering laws from the 1970s onward, many gang leaders were incarcerated in federal prisons. That left behind a more fractured and anarchic gang culture, say gang experts.
Chicago is considered the most gang-occupied city in the United States, with 150,000 gang-affiliated tenants, [1] representing more than 100 gangs. [2] Gang warfare and retaliation are common in Chicago. Gangs were responsible for 61% of the homicides in Chicago in 2011.
Sep 1, 2019 · Description: Chicago was once infamous for its gangsters, though most of the mobs vanished, their legacies still influenced the city a lot. Listen here: https://voices.uchicago.edu/2019aeppeli/files/2019/09/final.mp3
