Turf Talk

I love my new neighborhood, Ukrainian Village. Its close to affordable good food, a giant new chain grocery store, bars, friends. My apartment rules. That said, the area is a little rough around the edges (which is fine by me). It's sort of like a cleaned up Mission, my old neighborhood in SF. Anyway, last week I noticed the largest throw-up of gang graffiti I've seen in Chicago by the Latin Kings. Granted, I've only lived in Bucktown before this where there's no graffiti anywhere. I do work in Bronzeville though but I don't even see it down here too much either. Today I took Audrey out at 7 am, and saw the following on the church that is directly next door to my house:





Whirrrr turf war! I looked up the info on ChicagoGangs.org and found the following info:

My house (info on the Insane C-Notes:



Other graffiti by the grocery store:



My boss explained to me that the upside down pitchfork thingy is actually an upside down crown and it means basically, fuck you latin kings.

I'm not really afraid or upset by any of this. I've lived in far worse areas and it' s not like I'll be caught in some wild crossfire ever. Seems more just some silly war in name only. Maybe in drug stuff but not violence. What I would like to know is:

1. Who is wolfy and who was before wolfy?
2. How many hits will this post generate by people looking for Chicago gang info?
3. How will the super poor barely operating church next door pay to paint over that?