Chicago C-Notes

The new membership from Jefferson Park was that of clean, respectable working class, and their territory placed the C-Notes far to the North West side of the city. Also, there was no hard core drugs being sold on street corners this far North, which saved all of their membership from any possibilities of addiction.

In Jefferson Park, the C-Notes did list a catacomb of street corners all in the same area, which was basically the same set of up of their old hood of Smith Park. They also preyed on Insane Popes and had battles with Stoned Freaks, and Gaylords from Dunham Park and Montrose and Narragansett. They also did attack other enemy gang members who strayed in to their new hood, that were most likely traveling through the Chicago Transit Authority stop that is located in the area. Additionally, while other gangs were viciously warring through the People and Folks war, the C-Notes decided to term themselves as something called "Family". Which was their personal rallying cry or response to the People and Folk unities, and to call attention to their cause.

Jefferson Park, also did something else for the C-Notes, it bid them a fair amount of time and growth to figure out their next move. From there, they tried to branch out by forming new sets by Addison and Harlem, and Olcott and Roscoe, which were about five city blocks from each other, but these sets were only fully operational for under a year, and then they just fizzled out.

In the late 1980s,the next move for the C-notes was to try and reclaim stable control of their old ground; Ohio and Levitt, which they finally did, through the acceptance of some Latino membership in to their ranks.

In the 1990s, the C-Notes then went on to establish alliances with the Folk gangs, that eventually ended up as a unity called "Insane", which was a rebellious splint off fraction of around eight other gangs from the Folk unity.

Today, the C-Notes' presence in Jefferson Park is gone. They are no longer visible in this area. They however do show some small membership around their old neighborhood of Smith Park, consisting of mostly of Latinos.

JOEY-C Stated:

I became a C-NOTE in 84, just like your article states how a lot of sections closed is because of a generation change. The older guys who ran those sets got married, grew up and left the neighborhood. in the mid 80's my generation came in power and only claimed "Ohio & Leavitt" but our set included $mith park and Mitchell School and all the turf between Chicago Avenue to the north, Grand Avenue to the south, California Avenue to the west, and Damen Avenue to the east, which was always C-NOTE turf since the gang began and still is. It is not as held down like it was in my days. The only reason they still have that much turf because of alliances with the Harrison Gents and Insane Dragons. In the 80's we battled to keep all that neighborhood and now they are allowed to keep it. Now for Jefferson Park, I don't know too much about them. A few of them used to come by Ohio & Leavitt to hang with us back in the day. We looked at them as the "suburban C-Notes”, you Gaylords knew they were pretty weak.

I just did 6 months in Vienna c.c., I think that’s where all the Royals are, shipload of them there. I met a Jefferson Park. C-NOTE there and he said their pretty much extinct. That can be the only positive thing about the C-NOTE$ turning Latin Folks, it seemed like every Puerto Rican gang banger we jumped back in the day when we were family was locked up there too and recognized me: a few Spanish Cobras, a Latin Lover, a Harrison Gent and an Imperial Gangster, who I personally had dealings with, were all got along fine telling old war stories. Oh and a Grand and Noble Boy I grew up with: they ride Latin Folks now (all 2 or 3 of them) with the Milwaukee Kings.