Simon City Royals

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The Simon City Royals started in the Lakeview area on Chicago's Northside in the late 1960S. They adopted an older gangs' title that was fazed out at the time, "Simon City" and incorporated Royals to it. Hence the name Simon City Royals.

In the 1960s, they began to fight with gangs such as the Imperial Gangsters, Latin Kings, Jokers, Drakers and Belairs. By this time Simon City had begun to clean up their act and organize, and began to spread to other neighborhoods on the northwest side. They started talks with a gang called the Ashland Royals who were headquartered on the corner of Paulina and Cornelia streets. The leader of Simon City, Michael Kraft, fought a leading member of the Royals and lost, with the result being that the two gangs merged into one. The gang was now called Simon City's Angry Royals, soon to be shortened to Simon City Royals. Some sections of Simon City continued to operate as a separate group under the old name for a few years before either joining the Royals or fading away.

As of today the Simon City Royal population is in the top 25, in the United States Prison System. The Royals are considered one of the larger gang in the United States. The Royals killed several members of the Deuces, Stones and the Kings in the 1980s, in addition to a 14 year old Gaylord and other Gaylords and gang members. By the early 90s, however, they had begun to feud with their former allies, the Spanish Cobras and Latin Disciples. The Royals killed several Cobras, and taken some of their sets and had some of their members killed in return. They entered into a grouping within the Folks alliance known as the Almighty Family. This faction consists of the Royals, Imperial Gangsters, Harrison Gents, Latin Eagles and Ambrose. The Royals are still united with the North Side Insane Popes, the alliance is called R-P-N Royal Pope Nation. The Royals still hang-on to some of their historic strongholds on the north side of Chicago like Central Park and Wilson. And still bang with some of their old school sets and have new sets as well and have spread to other states such as Wisconsin, Indiana, Mississippi, West Virginia, Oklahoma, Tennessee and Florida. The Royals are involved in murder, kidnapping, extortion, burglary, money laundering and they are heavily involved in the use and dealing of methamphetamine. Their main enemies today consist of the Spanish Cobras, Orchestra Albany, Spanish Gangster Disciples, Maniac Latin Disciples, Familia Stones, Latin Kings, Insane Unknowns, and the Insane Deuces, a violent group of l drug-dealers. Recently, SCR tagging has been found sprayed in Iraq by military men with gang connections.