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By the mid-1990s the MLDs were one of the largest and most organized gangs in the city but a couple money making street corners and a power struggle created rivals within the gang that ended their reign. Africans could legally raise crops and cattle to purchase their freedom and they raised families, married other Africans and sometimes intermarried with Native Americans or English settlers. Founded in the 1970's and originating in Chicago at Rockwell and Potomac, this gang has an active role in the sale of street narcotics. And there is billions and billions of dollars out there to be made.

Specifically due to constant feuding with local area gangs such as the Latin Counts and Latin Dragons, police intensity and leadership issues, the South Chicago SGDs' membership and activity has gradually faded. In 1998, federal authorities arrested several top-ranking members of the Maniac Latin Disciples on drug charges now starting to spread to certain places such as and. The gang is composed of at least 10 structured and unstructured factions with an estimated 1,500 to 2,000 members and associate members.



This article needs additional citations for. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. December 2012 Maniac Disciples Founded 1966 Founding location , United States Years active 1966—present Territory Humboldt Park Chicago, East Moline, Illinois, Meriden Connecticut Ethnicity Mostly Latino Membership 20,000 Criminal activities Drug trafficking, assault, auto theft, carjacking, drive-by shooting, home invasion, homicide, money laundering, weapons trafficking Allies gangs Rivals , Insane Spanish Cobras, Latin Lovers, The Maniac Latin Disciples MLD are the second largest street gang in Chicago and the largest gang in the alliance. They are one of the original gangs in the. In the late 1990s, the Maniac Latin Disciples began to spread their influence into the south side of Chicago along with several Chicago suburbs. In 1998, federal authorities arrested several top-ranking members of the Maniac Latin Disciples on drug charges now starting to spread to certain places such as and. They were initially known as the Latin Scorpions in 1966 as a neighborhood baseball team in Humboldt Park; because the club was constantly harassed and attacked by resident Caucasian street gangs, such as the , and Harrison Gents, they began to fight to protect themselves. From the beginning, the Latin Scorpions engaged in battle with the Latin Kings. In or around 1970 the Latin Scorpions established a relationship with the Black Gangster Disciples now split into the Black Disciples and Gangster Disciples in prison, eventually changing his gang's name to Latin Disciples later in 1983, Maniac Latin Disciples. That same year, Albert Hernandez was stabbed and killed by the Latin Kings. He asked the Latin Kings to remove their gang colors while walking through Latin Disciple turf and ended in a brawl with the Latin Kings and Hernandez being stabbed. Several other leaders filled the void. In the mid-1970s, the Latin Disciples formed an alliance with the Latin Eagles, Spanish Cobras, and Imperial Gangsters street gangs; this alliance was called the United Latino Organization. The now Maniac Latin Disciples grew at a tremendously rapid pace, recruiting many members from the Illinois correctional facilities. They established bases of operations throughout the North and West sides of the city, using brute and violent force to eliminate rival gangs. In 1983, Zayas was incarcerated on murder charges. However he has been able to control his gang's day-to-day activity since being incarcerated, though some factions have broken away from his leadership. Zayas is currently in Tamms maximum security prison. Among the initial gangs to join were the Maniac Campbell Boys and Milwaukee Kings. By the mid-1990s the MLDs were one of the largest and most organized gangs in the city but a couple money making street corners and a power struggle created rivals within the gang that ended their reign. Retrieved 16 August 2013. Attorney General's Report to Congress on the Growth of Violent Street Gangs in Suburban Areas. United States Department of Justice. Retrieved 16 August 2013. Retrieved 16 August 2013. Retrieved 16 August 2013. Florida Department of Corrections. Retrieved 16 August 2013. In 2012, Chicago was listed as a global city by the Globalization and World Cities Research Network. In 2016, Chicago hosted over 54 million domestic and international visitors, landmarks in the city include Millennium Park, Navy Pier, the Magnificent Mile, Art Institute of Chicago, Museum Campus, the Willis Tower, Museum of Science and Industry, and Lincoln Park Zoo. Chicagos culture includes the arts, novels, film, theater, especially improvisational comedy. Chicago also has sports teams in each of the major professional leagues. The city has many nicknames, the best-known being the Windy City, the name Chicago is derived from a French rendering of the Native American word shikaakwa, known to botanists as Allium tricoccum, from the Miami-Illinois language. The first known reference to the site of the current city of Chicago as Checagou was by Robert de LaSalle around 1679 in a memoir, henri Joutel, in his journal of 1688, noted that the wild garlic, called chicagoua, grew abundantly in the area. In the mid-18th century, the area was inhabited by a Native American tribe known as the Potawatomi, the first known non-indigenous permanent settler in Chicago was Jean Baptiste Point du Sable. Du Sable was of African and French descent and arrived in the 1780s and he is commonly known as the Founder of Chicago. In 1803, the United States Army built Fort Dearborn, which was destroyed in 1812 in the Battle of Fort Dearborn, the Ottawa, Ojibwe, and Potawatomi tribes had ceded additional land to the United States in the 1816 Treaty of St. The Potawatomi were forcibly removed from their land after the Treaty of Chicago in 1833, on August 12,1833, the Town of Chicago was organized with a population of about 200. Within seven years it grew to more than 4,000 people, on June 15,1835, the first public land sales began with Edmund Dick Taylor as U. The City of Chicago was incorporated on Saturday, March 4,1837, as the site of the Chicago Portage, the city became an important transportation hub between the eastern and western United States. Chicagos first railway, Galena and Chicago Union Railroad, and the Illinois, the canal allowed steamboats and sailing ships on the Great Lakes to connect to the Mississippi River. A flourishing economy brought residents from rural communities and immigrants from abroad, manufacturing and retail and finance sectors became dominant, influencing the American economy. The Chicago Board of Trade listed the first ever standardized exchange traded forward contracts and these issues also helped propel another Illinoisan, Abraham Lincoln, to the national stage 2. The Humboldt Park neighborhood is known for its social and ethnic demographic change over the years. The Puerto Rican community has identified strongly with the area since the 1970s, the railyards southeast of Grand and Sacramento are also part of the community area. There are two areas of Humboldt Park, East Humboldt Park and West Humboldt Park, divided by Sacramento Boulevard. East Humboldt Park is east of Sacramento Boulevard to Western Avenue, though it is considered a part of the Humboldt Park Neighborhood, it is officially a part of the West Town Community Area. Though the area was known for its middle class Puerto Rican community from the 1970s to the 1990s. Now most residents on this side of Humboldt Park are upper class residents. The area once had the largest middle class Puerto Rican community in the Midwest, mayor Rahm Emanuels sweeping school closings left no neighborhood elementary schools in the area. West Humboldt Park is the area west of Sacramento Boulevard, many residents on this side of Humboldt Park are low-income working class residents. The area used to be known for crime, but that has declined by little in blocks adjacent to the park since the gentrification is moving westward. Though Blacks and Hispanics are quite integrated in the neighborhood, areas north of Grand Avenue are more Hispanic, the park was named for Alexander von Humboldt, a German naturalist and geographer famed for his five-volume work Cosmos, Draft of a Physical Description of the World. His single visit to the United States did not include Chicago, Humboldt Park is part of Chicagos Boulevard Park System, which flanks the Loop with large parks linked with boulevards. The park is lined with houses and is now enjoying a non-restrictive landmark status on Kedzie Ave. The park itself has 3 major historical buildings, including the Boat House, the Field House. Chicago annexed most of the neighborhood in 1869, the year the park was laid out, because the area lay just beyond the citys fire code jurisdiction, as set out after the 1871 fire, this made low cost construction possible. The school, which was operated by the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Chicago, lost 92 students, in the 1970s, Humboldt Park became more dangerous with high levels of gang activity, crime, and violence. The neighborhood was economically depressed, with housing values below the citywide average, overcrowding remains a serious problem, as does gang activity and violent crime. According to the Woodstock institute,550 foreclosures in Humboldt Park during 2010 further decreased the Puerto Rican presence, newer middle-class and wealthy white people, as well as working class Mexican people have shifted the Puerto Rican majority in Humboldt Park 3. It is bordered by Minnesota to the west, Iowa to the southwest, Illinois to the south, Lake Michigan to the east, Michigan to the northeast, Wisconsin is the 23rd largest state by total area and the 20th most populous. The state capital is Madison, and its largest city is Milwaukee, the state is divided into 72 counties. Wisconsin is second to Michigan in the length of its Great Lakes coastline, Wisconsin is known as Americas Dairyland because it is one of the nations leading dairy producers, particularly famous for its cheese. Manufacturing, especially paper products, information technology, and tourism are major contributors to the states economy. The word Wisconsin originates from the given to the Wisconsin River by one of the Algonquian-speaking Native American groups living in the region at the time of European contact. French explorer Jacques Marquette was the first European to reach the Wisconsin River, arriving in 1673, subsequent French writers changed the spelling from Meskousing to Ouisconsin, and over time this became the name for both the Wisconsin River and the surrounding lands. English speakers anglicized the spelling from Ouisconsin to Wisconsin when they began to arrive in numbers during the early 19th century. The legislature of Wisconsin Territory made the current spelling official in 1845, the Algonquin word for Wisconsin and its original meaning have both grown obscure. Interpretations vary, but most implicate the river and the red sandstone that lines its banks, other theories include claims that the name originated from one of a variety of Ojibwa words meaning red stone place, where the waters gather, or great rock. Wisconsin has been home to a variety of cultures over the past 12,000 years. The first people arrived around 10,000 BCE during the Wisconsin Glaciation and these early inhabitants, called Paleo-Indians, hunted now-extinct ice age animals such as the Boaz mastodon, a prehistoric mastodon skeleton unearthed along with spear points in southwest Wisconsin. After the ice age ended around 8000 BCE, people in the subsequent Archaic period lived by hunting, fishing, agricultural societies emerged gradually over the Woodland period between 1000 BCE to 1000 CE. Toward the end of period, Wisconsin was the heartland of the Effigy Mound culture. Later, between 1000 and 1500 CE, the Mississippian and Oneota cultures built substantial settlements including the village at Aztalan in southeast Wisconsin. The Oneota may be the ancestors of the modern Ioway and Ho-Chunk tribes who shared the Wisconsin region with the Menominee at the time of European contact, the first European to visit what became Wisconsin was probably the French explorer Jean Nicolet. He canoed west from Georgian Bay through the Great Lakes in 1634, pierre Radisson and Médard des Groseilliers visited Green Bay again in 1654—1666 and Chequamegon Bay in 1659—1660, where they traded for fur with local Native Americans. In 1673, Jacques Marquette and Louis Jolliet became the first to record a journey on the Fox-Wisconsin Waterway all the way to the Mississippi River near Prairie du Chien 4. Tennessee is the 36th largest and the 17th most populous of the 50 United States, Tennessee is bordered by Kentucky and Virginia to the north, North Carolina to the east, Georgia, Alabama, and Mississippi to the south, and Arkansas and Missouri to the west. The Appalachian Mountains dominate the eastern part of the state, Tennessees capital and second largest city is Nashville, which has a population of 654,610. Memphis is the states largest city, with a population of 655,770, the state of Tennessee is rooted in the Watauga Association, a 1772 frontier pact generally regarded as the first constitutional government west of the Appalachians. What is now Tennessee was initially part of North Carolina, Tennessee was admitted to the Union as the 16th state on June 1,1796. Tennessee was the last state to leave the Union and join the Confederacy at the outbreak of the American Civil War in 1861, occupied by Union forces from 1862, it was the first state to be readmitted to the Union at the end of the war. Tennessee furnished more soldiers for the Confederate Army than any other state besides Virginia and this sharply reduced competition in politics in the state until after passage of civil rights legislation in the mid-20th century. This city was established to house the Manhattan Projects uranium enrichment facilities, helping to build the worlds first atomic bomb, Tennessees major industries include agriculture, manufacturing, and tourism. Poultry, soybeans, and cattle are the primary agricultural products, and major manufacturing exports include chemicals, transportation equipment. In the early 18th century, British traders encountered a Cherokee town named Tanasi in present-day Monroe County, the town was located on a river of the same name, and appears on maps as early as 1725. The meaning and origin of the word are uncertain, some accounts suggest it is a Cherokee modification of an earlier Yuchi word. It has been said to mean meeting place, winding river, according to ethnographer James Mooney, the name can not be analyzed and its meaning is lost. The modern spelling, Tennessee, is attributed to James Glen, the governor of South Carolina, the spelling was popularized by the publication of Henry Timberlakes Draught of the Cherokee Country in 1765. In 1788, North Carolina created Tennessee County, the county to be established in what is now Middle Tennessee. When a constitutional convention met in 1796 to organize a new out of the Southwest Territory. Other sources differ on the origin of the nickname, according to the Columbia Encyclopedia. Tennessee ties Missouri as the state bordering the most other states, the state is trisected by the Tennessee River. The highest point in the state is Clingmans Dome at 6,643 feet, Clingmans Dome, which lies on Tennessees eastern border, is the highest point on the Appalachian Trail, and is the third highest peak in the United States east of the Mississippi River 5. The organization is referred to by members as Cosa Nostra or La Cosa Nostra. The Mafia in the United States emerged in impoverished Italian immigrant neighborhoods in New Yorks East Harlem, Lower East Side and it has its roots in the Sicilian Mafia but is a separate organization in the United States. Today, the American Mafia cooperates in various activities with Italian organized crime groups, such as the Sicilian Mafia, Camorra in Naples. The most important unit of the American Mafia is that of a family, despite the name of family to describe the various units, they are not familial groupings. The Mafia is currently most active in the Northeastern U. At the Mafias peak, there were at least 26 cities around the United States with Cosa Nostra families, with many more offshoots and associates in other cities. There are five main New York City Mafia families, known as the Five Families, the Gambino, Lucchese, Genovese, Bonanno, at its peak, the Mafia dominated organized crime in the U. Each crime family has its own territory and operates independently, while nationwide coordination is overseen by the Commission, the term Mafia was originally used in Italy by the media and law enforcement to describe criminal groups in Sicily. The origins of the term are debatable though most agree the term is derived from the word Maafir a term rooted in Arabic, like the Sicilian Mafia, the American Mafia did not use the term Mafia to describe itself. Neither group has a name and instead used the term cosa nostra when referring to themselves. Mafia properly refers to either the Sicilian or Italian-American Mafia, kennedys political team, referred to as the Irish Mafia. The press also coined the name National Crime Syndicate to refer to the network of U. The first published account of what became the Mafia in the United States dates to the spring of 1869, emigration from southern Italy to the Americas was primarily to Brazil and Argentina, and New Orleans had a heavy volume of port traffic to and from both locales. The Black Hand was a given to an extortion method used in Italian neighborhoods at the turn of the 20th century. It has been mistaken for the Mafia itself, which it is not. The Black Hand was a society, but there were many small Black Hand gangs. Black Hand extortion was often viewed as the activity of a single organization because Black Hand criminals in Italian communities throughout the United States used the methods of extortion 6. From 1921 to 1925, the family was headed by the six Genna brothers and these brothers were Sicilians from the town of Marsala and operated from Chicagos Little Italy and maintained control over the Unione Siciliana. They were allies with fellow Italian gang the Chicago Outfit, after a bloody war led to their demise in the 1920s, the gang was eventually absorbed by the Chicago Outfit. Anthony DAndrea was a Sicilian Mafia boss in Chicagos Little Italy and his closest allies were the Genna brothers, who operated illegal gambling clubs and salons in his territory. In 1919, DAndrea became president of the Chicago chapter of the Unione Siciliana, DAndrea wanted more political power, and ran to become alderman of Chicagos 19th Ward, which included Little Italy. This started the Aldermens Wars between DAndrea and John Powers, an Irish saloon-keeper who was the sitting alderman, on May 11,1921, DAndrea was shot and killed while entering his apartment. The Genna brothers consisted of six Sicilian brothers, Bloody Angelo, Antonio The Gentleman, Mike The Devil, Peter, Sam, in 1919, the Gennas became involved in bootlegging, they obtained a federal licence to legally manufacture industrial alcohol, which they sold illegally. The Genna brothers operated from Chicagos Little Italy, which was located west of the Chicago Loop, the Genna brothers began selling their extra alcohol at cut-rate prices outside of their territory. This produced a clash with the North Side Gang leader Dean OBanion, Torrio refused and OBanion and his gang began hijacking shipments of whiskey that belonged to the Genna brothers. Torrio then ordered the Gennas to murder OBanion, they carried out the hit on November 10,1924, frankie Yale along with two Genna gunmen—John Scalise and Albert Anselmi— entered OBanions flower shop and shot him multiple times. After OBanions murder, Chicago erupted into gang war, the North Side Gang, led by George Bugs Moran, shot and wounded Torrio outside his home. Torrio fled to Italy, leaving Al Capone as boss, the North Side Gang took aim at the Genna brothers and on May 27,1925, Moran chased down Angelo Genna in a high-speed car chase, then shot him to death. On June 13,1925, Mike Genna was gunned down by police after a shootout with the North Siders, Antonio Genna was shot to death on July 8,1925 in an ambush. The remaining three brothers Jim, Sam, and Pete fled Chicago, giuseppe Joe Aiello and his brothers Salvatore Sam and Pietro Peter declared themselves bosses of the old Genna brothers territory of Little Italy. The Aiello brothers had an alliance with the Castellammarese Clan boss Salvatore Maranzano, the brothers attempted to murder Al Capone and become the most powerful organization in Chicago. Giuseppe Aiello was murdered in 1930 and Capone took over all Italian organized crime, C. He was murdered on May 11,1921, 1921-1925 — Angelo Genna — murdered on May 27,1925. The term may also be used to only those individuals who are descended from enslaved Africans. As a compound adjective the term is usually hyphenated as African-American, Black and African Americans constitute the third largest racial and ethnic group in the United States. Most African Americans are of West and Central African descent and are descendants of enslaved peoples within the boundaries of the present United States. On average, African Americans are of 73. The overwhelming majority of African immigrants identify instead with their own respective ethnicities, immigrants from some Caribbean, Central American and South American nations and their descendants may or may not also self-identify with the term. After the founding of the United States, black people continued to be enslaved, believed to be inferior to white people, they were treated as second-class citizens. The Naturalization Act of 1790 limited U. The first African slaves arrived via Santo Domingo to the San Miguel de Gualdape colony, the ill-fated colony was almost immediately disrupted by a fight over leadership, during which the slaves revolted and fled the colony to seek refuge among local Native Americans. De Ayllón and many of the colonists died shortly afterwards of an epidemic, the settlers and the slaves who had not escaped returned to Haiti, whence they had come. The first recorded Africans in British North America were 20 and odd negroes who came to Jamestown, as English settlers died from harsh conditions, more and more Africans were brought to work as laborers. Typically, young men or women would sign a contract of indenture in exchange for transportation to the New World, the landowner received 50 acres of land from the state for each servant purchased from a ships captain. An indentured servant would work for years without wages. The status of indentured servants in early Virginia and Maryland was similar to slavery, servants could be bought, sold, or leased and they could be physically beaten for disobedience or running away. Africans could legally raise crops and cattle to purchase their freedom and they raised families, married other Africans and sometimes intermarried with Native Americans or English settlers. By the 1640s and 1650s, several African families owned farms around Jamestown and some became wealthy by colonial standards and purchased indentured servants of their own. In 1640, the Virginia General Court recorded the earliest documentation of slavery when they sentenced John Punch. One of Dutch African arrivals, Anthony Johnson, would own one of the first black slaves, John Casor 8. By the year 2000, they had established the cocaine distribution cells throughout the United States, through their Los Angeles-based drug source, they had direct links to Mexican-based drug cartels. Its network eventually spanned as far as Los Angeles, California to Atlanta, around 2000, the organization tried to legitimize itself by entering the hip-hop music business, starting a company called BMF Entertainment. Through BMF Entertainment, it helped promote a number of artists, including Young Jeezy, as well as BMF Entertainments sole artist, before their entrance into the music business, the Flenory Brothers were known to associate with a number of high-profile hip-hop artists, including Jay-Z and Fabolous. Both were sentenced to 30 years in prison, subsequent indictments eventually targeted over 150 members of the organization. A two-year federal investigation of the organization estimated its membership as over 500. Around 2001, there was a split between the brothers, with Terry moving to Los Angeles with his girlfriend to head his own organization, by 2003, the two had been involved in a major falling out and rarely spoke to one another. In a conversation with his sister Bernatta, caught by the DEA on wiretap, by the time charges were filed, the government had 900 pages of typed transcripts of wiretapped conversations from Terrys phone in a 5-month period. In November 2007, the brothers pleaded guilty to running a criminal enterprise. In September 2008, both brothers were sentenced to 30 years in prison for running a nationwide cocaine-trafficking ring, which lasted from 2000 to 2005. Demetrius Flenory is serving out his sentence at USP Lompoc in Lompoc, CA and is scheduled for release on May 5,2032, while incarcerated at United States Penitentiary, Lompoc, a medium-security federal prison in California, he adopted the name Big Herm. His brother is serving his sentence at FCI Coleman Low in Sumterville, in 2004, Bleu Da Vincis album, World Is BMFs, was nominated for a Source Award. BMF appeared in numerous underground hip-hop DVD magazines, most notably issues of S. The organizations most highly visible appearance was in a full-length DVD that was produced by The Raw Report, the DVD was featured Vibes cover article on BMF in the May 2006. It received wide acclaim from DJs for the Soundsmith Productions produced song Streets on Lock, headed by BMF affiliate Bleu Davinci and featuring Fabolous, a music video was later produced for the single, though it was never released to networks. Creative Loafing senior editor Mara Shalhoup wrote a series about the Black Mafia Family entitled Hip-Hops Shadowy Empire. Her later book on the organization, BMF, The Rise and Fall of Big Meech, Demetrius Flenory was interviewed from prison by the magazines Don Diva and The Source 9. It commonly applies to countries once colonized by the Spanish Empire in the Americas and Asia, particularly the countries of Latin America and the Philippines. It could be argued that the term should apply to all Spanish-speaking cultures or countries and it is difficult to label a nation or culture with one term, such as Hispanic, as the ethnicities, customs, traditions, and art forms vary greatly by country and region. In English the word is attested from the 16th century, the words Spain, Spanish, and Spaniard are of the same etymology as Hispanus, ultimately. Hispanus was the Latin name given to a person from Hispania during Roman rule, in English, the term Hispano-Roman is sometimes used. The Hispano-Romans were composed of people from different indigenous tribes. A number of men, such as Trajan, Hadrian. Hispano-Roman is used to refer to the culture and people of Hispania, Hispanic is used to refer to modern Spain, to the Spanish language, and to the Spanish-speaking nations of the world and particularly the Americas. Spanish is used to refer to the people, nationality, culture, language, Spaniard is used to refer to the people of Spain. Hispania was the Roman name for the territory of the Iberian Peninsula. Initially, this territory was divided into two provinces, Hispania Citerior and Hispania Ulterior, in 27 B. C, Hispania Ulterior was divided into two new provinces, Hispania Baetica and Hispania Lusitania, while Hispania Citerior was renamed Hispania Tarraconensis. This division of Hispania explains the usage of the singular and plural forms used to refer to the peninsula and this revival of the old Roman concept in the Middle Ages appears to have originated in Provençal, and was first documented at the end of the 11th century. In the Council of Constance, the four kingdoms shared one vote, the word Lusitanian, relates to Lusitania or Portugal, also in reference to the Lusitanians, possibly one of the first Indo-European tribes to settle in Europe. From this tribes name had derived the name of the Roman province of Lusitania, the terms Spain and the Spains were not interchangeable. Spain was a territory, home to several kingdoms, with separate governments, laws, languages, religions, and customs. Spain was not an entity until much later, and when referring to the Middle Ages. The term The Spains referred specifically to a collective of juridico-political units, first the Christian kingdoms, although colloquially and literally the expression King of Spain or King of the Spains was already widespread, it did not refer to a unified nation-state.

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