Stateville Correctional Center, Crest Hill, Illinois, U.S.
Years active
1978–present
Territory
Nationwide
Ethnicity
Any (multiethnic)
Leader(s)
Larry Hoover
Criminal activities
Drug trafficking, burglary, extortion, homicide
Allies
Various Crips factions
The Folk Nation is an alliance of street gangs originating in Chicago, established in 1978.[1] The alliance has since spread throughout the United States, particularly the Midwest region of the United States.
^"FBI - Publications - Law Enforcement Bulletin - December 2001". Archived from the original on January 10, 2008.
The FolkNation is an alliance of street gangs originating in Chicago, established in 1978. The alliance has since spread throughout the United States...
People Nation is an alliance of street gangs generally associated with the Chicago area. They are rivals of the FolkNation alliance of gangs. The People...
across the country, an alliance was formed between the Crips and the FolkNation in Midwest and Southern U.S. prisons. This alliance was established to...
[citation needed] The FolkNation, including that of the Black Gangster Disciple Nation, also personified a rivalry with the People Nation, which included other...
the Gangster Disciples, enraging parts of the BGDN's subsets and the FolkNation. Members of the Black Disciples decided to splinter from the Black Gangster...
folk in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Folk or Folks may refer to: Nation People Folklore Folk art Folk dance Folk hero Folk horror Folk music Folk...
Latin Kings are members of the People Nation alliance of gangs, and are therefore opposed to the rival FolkNation gang alliance. When any member believes...
members in each set. United States portal Law portal Gangs in Chicago FolkNation Knox, George W., Ph.D. (2008). "The Impact of the Federal Prosecution...
activities on the outside. Gang umbrella organizations like the FolkNation and People Nation have originated in prisons. La Eme or the Mexican Mafia: (Blue)...
Folk music is a music genre that includes traditional folk music and the contemporary genre that evolved from the former during the 20th-century folk...
included some of his former henchmen. Lloyd died in 2015 aged 64. People NationFolkNation Cartels and Gangs in Chicago dea.gov (May 2017) Social Reality of...
six-point star. Although La Raza Nation is affiliated with the FolkNation, La Raza Nation has been to war with many FolkNation gangs such as Gangster Disciples...
members of People Nation or Nuestra Familia affiliated gangs identify (People gangs identify with the number 5, while FolkNation gangs use 6), a recognition...
In China, folk Protestantism had its origins with the Taiping Rebellion. Chinese folk religion, folk Christianity, folk Hinduism, and folk Islam are examples...
is a universal term used to refer to West Coast Bloods and United Blood Nation (UBN, also known as the East Coast Bloods). These two groups are traditionally...
term American folk music encompasses numerous music genres, variously known as traditional music, traditional folk music, contemporary folk music, vernacular...
recorded folk traditions, and used them in their process of nation building. This process was enthusiastically embraced by smaller nations, like Finland...
A nation is a large type of social organization where a collective identity, a national identity, has emerged from a combination of shared features across...
Folk rock is a genre of rock music with heavy influences from English folk and American folk music. Combining the elements of folk and rock music, it arose...
the Universal Fork and used to rep the pitchfork associated with the FolkNation, but no longer after their war with the SGD’s and GD’s. The Latin Eagles...
A folk costume (also regional costume, national costume, traditional clothing, traditional garment or traditional regalia) expresses a national identity...
African-American gangs like the FolkNation and Bloods, continue to have a presence in the US Military. The United Nations estimates that gangs make most...
Völker) in the sense of a people as in an ethnic group or nation (compare the English term folk). Within an English-language context, the German word is...
a combination of symbols that represent the Gangster Disciple Nation or the FolkNation as a whole and symbols that rivals use to represent their organization...
Contemporary folk music refers to a wide variety of genres that emerged in the mid 20th century and afterwards which were associated with traditional folk music...
The Maniac Latin Disciples Nation is a Hispanic street gang in Chicago and the largest in the Folks Nation alliance. Originally known as the Latin Scorpions...
Corrections. "Street Gangs — Chicago Based or Influenced: People Nation and FolkNation". State of Florida. Archived from the original on 2008-03-16. Retrieved...