Jeff Fort (born February 20, 1947) is a former Chicago gang leader, co-founder of the Black P. Stones gang, and founder of its El Rukn faction. He was convicted in 1987 of conspiring with Libya to perform acts of domestic terrorism.
Jeff Fort was born on February 20, 1947 in Aberdeen, Mississippi. He moved with his family to the Woodlawn neighborhood in the South Side of Chicago in 1955. He dropped out of school after the fourth grade.
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Jeff Fort (born February 20, 1947) is a former Chicago gang leader, co-founder of the Black P. Stones gang, and founder of its El Rukn faction. He was convicted in 1987 of conspiring with Libya to perform acts of domestic terrorism.
Jeff Fort was born on February 20, 1947 in Aberdeen, Mississippi. He moved with his family to the Woodlawn neighborhood in the South Side of Chicago in 1955. He dropped out of school after the fourth grade.
Fort spent time at Cook County Temporary Juvenile Detention Center and at the Illinois State Training School for Boys in St. Charles, where he met Eugene "Bull" Hairston. Around 1959, Fort and Hairston formed the Blackstone Rangers gang at St. Charles. The Blackstone Rangers comprised youth from the Blackstone Avenue area of Woodlawn, assembled to defend themselves against other gangs in the South Side. Hairston was the gang's leader with Fort as second in command. The Rangers fought rival gangs, especially the Devil's Disciples.
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