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| Founding location | Chicago, Illinois, U.S. |
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| Years active | 1950s-present |
| Territory | North/South sides of Chicago |
| Ethnicity | Mostly Caucasian Americans |
| Membership | Unknown |
| Allies | Folk Nation, TAP Boyz, Imperial Gangsters, Simon City Royals |
| Rivals | People Nation, Insane Deuces, Familia Stones, Almighty Gaylords, Latin Kings, Black P. Stones, Assyrian Kings |
The Almighty Insane Popes Nation is a Chicago, Illinois street gang, formed in the late 1950s on the north side of Chicago, primarily building membership from a Greek greaser gang that hung out at the corner of Lawrence and Rockwell. This small group had problems with the much larger Latin Kings gang on the north side, and so they began to associate with the Almighty Simon City Royals in an attempt to protect themselves. However, rather than joining the Royals outright, they eventually decided to form their own gang, which they named the Popes: this stood for "Protecting Our People Eliminating Spics" (eventually the racial slur would be replaced by "scum" when the Popes ceased to be a racist gang and began inviting Latinos and African Americans to join).[1]
- ^ Curran Kirby, Kate (2006). "1". In James W. Wagner (ed.). The Chicago Crime Commission Gang Book. Chicago Crime Commission. pp. 18–20. OCLC 70236857.