Almighty Bishops Nation

Almighty Bishops Nation is a People/Brother Mob made up of mostly latinos.

Their colors are Red & Black and Gold & Black (sometimes White)

Their symbols include a Bishops Fedora, Catholic Cross w/5 slashes, 5 point Star.

The Bishops originated in the Pilsen community on Chicago's Southside in the early 1960's. The Bishops are said to have originated as a neighborhood baseball club. The club uniforms signified that of Bishop and Catholic church symbols. By the late 1960's, members of the club started to engage in endeavors with selling drugs and getting involved with area street gangs. The most common tale of the Bishops origination as a street gang is that the group congregated as an off-shoot of the Latin Counts street gang. In early years the Bishops and Latin Counts were very close, in-fact often referred to eachother as the "Bishop-Count Nation" and fought along side eachother in the Pilsen neighborhoods. The Bishops moniker is derived from the street in which they originated in the area of 18th & Bishop, although they've transformed it to symbolize a Bishop of the Catholic Church in gang manefesto, adopting such symbols at the Catholic Cross, and a Bishop Fedora. Throughout the early 1990's the Bishops and Latin Counts who were always "tight" within thier gang alliance, and considered to be "1st-Cousins" began to feud. A vicious war erupted between the two organizations in the Pilsen community and the suburb of Cicero in which many lives were lost on both sides. The Bishops have also engaged in continuous gang wars with the Satan Disciples, Party People, Ambrose, and La Raza street gangs in the Pilsen community. Although small in number, the Bishops at times have been an extremely violent organization and are also a founding member of the People alliance in the late 1970's. At some point in their history the Bishops were able to spread their influence into Northeastern Illinois in parts of Moline, East Moline, Rock Island and Davenport, Iowa in an area which is called "Quad-Cities" which makes up a majority of their operation today.