all right guys what is up it is your least favorite model vlogger brian636 here with hoodies
episode 40 freaking five now as you know good eats is to document a lot of restaurants and history
within chicago and chicago's neighborhood now with that being said we cannot forget
about some of the places that literally touch chicago on the very edge now some of you guys
already know where i'm going with this one i'm talking about chicago suburbs and make
no mistake these are not the suburbs you guys think of when you think of suburbs there is no
white picket fences and 10 out of 10 soccer moms walking labrador retrievers down the sidewalk
today we are going to the place where the famous mobster al capone called his home base and ran
it with an iron fist we are going to probably one of the most historic neighborhoods in the country
and a neighborhood that has seen so much violence and change over the past hundred years that it's
gonna be hard for me to fit all this into this episode today we are going to cicero illinois
today we are on the beautiful 2013 636 i know i don't get out on this bike as much as i really
should it's super reliable it's super fun so i'm gonna turn this thing on and let's get going
we are leaving chicago so right now guys we're on roosevelt and costner on the very west end of
the north lawndale neighborhood not only one of the farthest west side neighborhoods but one of
chicago's most deadly and right to the north of this is austin chicago is most deadly you know
it butts up right up against those two cicero illinois mega left here on the ave and boom we
have entered cicero illinois beautiful beautiful cicero illinois now my history box oh my god are
you guys in for a treat on this one because the things that happened here in the 20s the things
that happened here in the 90s and even the stuff that's going on here present day when people from
around chicago and around illinois hear the words israel they think of gangbangers what do you think
of the old italian monsters like al capone and his gang literally standing outside of election polls
in the 20s here with tommy guns making sure people voted the politicians that they wanted b
into office so that they could maintain their brothels and their gambling dens or whether you
think of cicero illinois today as one of mexican gang members biggest strongholds in the us and
i saw that firsthand during the riots when i was actually riding through cicero gang members were
literally getting out and communicating with police officers on where rioters were going
and they were tracking them basically they were running the top and it was crazy to see that in
kind of today's era groups of young cicero men doing some patrolling of their own we caught up
with this group as the sun began to set some carrying bats others golf clubs and a few
with guns tucked in their pants we're just protecting our neighborhood that's something
that you kind of think is dead and gone so now we are on cermak and cicero also known as 22nd street
and right there right by where that currency exchange is a little bit south of there actually
i'll pull into the parking lot there used to be where the hawthorne inn was this is literally
where al capone and most of his south side gang were based out them now why did al capone choose
cicero and why is he so synonymous with chicago if he's not really in chicago well i consider a
suburb like cicero just as much part of chicago as almost all the chicago neighborhoods it had
businesses like western electric that employed most of chicago's population on the west side
and this street right here is the border between chicago and cicero it means that at the time
if chicago police were after you and you were running from him or you were running away from
sanctions that the city imposed or anything like that what a better place to come than cicero
because it's not technically chicago although it's only seven miles from the loop which is
closer than most chicago neighborhoods are from the loop there's neighborhood that on the south
side are like 15 miles away from downtown and on top of that you get to get away from those
pesky chicago police that have been profiling you and your gang for years and years and years you
get a lot smaller government that you can have a lot more say over and you get to set up all your
brothels and gambling dens and pretty much all your rackets right here what do you say guys i
kind of want to pop it up i haven't done a wheelie on this bike in a long time but it's super windy
whoa oh my god is it windy
feels nice feels smooth
see if i can jump into it
that wind is no joke man guys before i even start this hoodie i gotta show you
some of this stuff that we just launched on misguided it is absolutely some of my favorite
stuff that we've produced check it out guys we now have these super dope uh really good
quality black camo duffel bags uh embroidered with misguided on the side and chicago flag
they have these nice big straps perfect for any little stunt trip anything like that next we just
released these cherry red trucker hats because a lot of guys have been complaining that they
want something a little bit more breathable so we did that we have all of our beanies back in stock
everything from pink to yellow to gray to black all embroidered super nice super nice quality i
know there's not much winter left but we got them and then in preparation for spring we just did
these gray lightweight misguided heather hoodies super nice super dope we just got fanny packs and
titanium back in stock too it's exactly what i run on my o304 um for all you stunters that don't want
to have stuff in your pockets these are super good items to have and i'm super pumped about these too
we finally got misguided license plates um for off-road use only i'm running it on the 0304
super nice super good quality it's like as thick as a credit card and starting right now
for any order over fifty dollars we're throwing in these limited edition uh camo misguided stickers
let's get back to this hoodie it's on cicero i'm having a blast let's do it now this is kind of
what the homes look like here in cicero very very similar to most of the west side most of the south
side brick bungalows um lines of them just like that same exact reasons that we've talked about
in other hoodies when the great chicago fire hit and everyone's homes were made of wood they got
burned the hell down so a lot of the west side and these close west suburbs here are just that
brick bungalows and people flock here for the good schools that we're developing the jobs that
western electric and sears robot created in this neighborhood and the good family environment that
existed here this neighborhood was predominantly white predominantly italian all through the 20s
30s 40s 50s um it wasn't until the 60s that this neighborhood really started to transform this is
really a blue-collar workers neighborhood and it still is just that to this day now during
the 60s and into the 70s 80s and 90s this became a haven for mexican-american immigrants and with
that of course came white flight just like a lot of the west and southside neighborhoods that we've
discussed in hoodies before italian started to leave and started becoming the minority here
in this neighborhood all the way until present day where mexicans make up anywhere from 80 to
85 percent of this neighborhood and man do we see gang graffiti everywhere crowns down
sd satan disciples so we're in satan disciple territory right now people just another you know
very big hispanic gang here in chicago now this is a fight that cicero has put up ever since al
capone it's dealt with gangs in a very ruthless way so much so that in the 90s they came up with a
gang banger eviction they could bring you in front of a committee not even convicting you of a crime
and if you're found to actually be in a gang you could be imposed with a 500 a day fine for living
here not only that if you're just driving through your car immediately gets impounded and this
is what i'm talking about cicero has these signs everywhere gang-free zone no gangs the vehicles of
gang members are subject to seizure and in pound town ordnance so that means if they can prove that
you're a gang member and you're here in cicero even if you're just driving through they can
seize your car man a lot of people had a lot of pushback of it you know people feel like that's a
infringement of their of their rights they feel like it profiled latinos especially because you
know the neighborhood is eighty percent hispanic and of course that's something that um that no
one wants you know why do i wanna if this is where i went to school and where i work and everything
like that why do i wanna get pulled out of my car searched have my car impounded all this stuff just
for being a suspected gang member it's crazy but that's what this town did in the late 80s early
90s and it's something that they still do lane split lane split and it seems to have worked
fairly well because the shooting numbers have gone down dramatically since the 90s up until
last year 2021 it was a pretty violent year here in cicero they had 32 shooting and seven
homicides this year which is way way way up uh from the previous year but hoodies 40 freaking 5.
the limiter sounds amazing on this thing oh my god
look at this thing man i don't even know where to start he's got so much stuff like built
up onto the side of it that thing is super cool oh my god you got a doll in the front
bunch of clowns out here man we are going to my favorite taco spot in all of chicago i said it
on my instagram story a while ago some people got some hurt feelings about it but with every person
that got hurt feelings about i got 10 other people saying you're 100 right who would ever guess that
you would find some of chicago's best tacos in one of chicago's most hispanic neighborhoods i know
here we are guys zaka tacos i think it's going to be so full of salt and water but i don't care
i needed to get out and ride let's go baby hello
thank you nice and full now man i'm telling you those tacos i've had them a lot and they
never get old some of the best i'm sorry i've been talking so much this whole vlog guys this is just
close to where a lot of my family grew up you know the transition from italian to mexican and a lot
of the history here its proximity to a lot of chicago's notoriously violent neighborhoods it's
just there's there's a lot going on here there's a lot of play here in cicero you know like i said
this is not like really your white picket fence type of suburbia that you think of this is part of
chicago that just didn't get annexed it is what it really is you know this feels a lot like a chicago
neighborhood and you still don't really have as much crime as some of the west side neighborhoods
of chicago just because cicero police some of the sanctions that they put on gang members and some
of the safety measures that they've really put in place to this neighborhood it's a it's a really
big deterrent you can feel the history there's not a lot of places that i say that i said that
about deadwood but i'll also say that about cicero illinois you can feel the history here
this has got to be like one of the loudest bikes i own man
this rsc little shorty exhaust does not do much to uh to hide the noise
oh it's a 636 636 so it's a little bit above the 600
that's a ninja 400.
what did they call me then
what's a man white boy good to meet you
so where we just were was one of many cicero still gambling
dens like there's a lot of slot machines in there
and um yeah you can come out here and play the slots and smoke inside it's very old school still
we found the pack boys mid-hood each
that's funny man we're all doing a hoodie so i run into some of the guys you guys might
remember luke from my last food heats down in jacksonville now we're just back on salt
covered roads not in t-shirts my guys still got the same swag on them though
all right guys as we head back into chicago i'm gonna stop this hoodie what an absolutely amazing
time we had some great tacos i got to cover more history than i think any other hoodies and we got
to get out on the new 636 in the middle of winter this is amazing now for anyone who has not watched
all the other 44 episodes of hoodies just yet i'll make sure to check out my playlist i'll leave it
down in all the descriptions of all my hoodies or just click on the hashtag below this video hoodies
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