This was an example of how bad the Beaconridge area was becoming around this time. This Will County suburb of Bolingbrook was first settled by Captain John Barber in the year 1832 at the location of where two Pottawatomi Indian trails met that are now known today as Boughton Road and Route 53. Bolingbrook gangs first caught major attention on April 23, 1991 when a gang brawl broke out at nearby Romeoville High School. Log In. The members of the Bolingbrook Police Department are a dedicated group of professionals who take great pride in their work. The news reported that Romeoville police sergeant Paul Fawser said he doubted that the fight at R.H.S was gang related, but one of the victims was Jermaine Hudson, who was 17 at the time (Chicago Tribune April 27, 1991). We invite you to explore the various pages and links. Some well-known town house subdivisions are Beaconridge and Fernwood which are both located near the intersection of Route 53 (Bolingbrook Dr.) and Lily Cache. The fight was between Gangster Disciples and Black P Stones and when the brawl was over with, Romeoville police denied it was a gang related brawl, ha! Bolingbrook Crime News. Barber’s Corner remained a farming community and largely rural for many years well into the 20th century as saw mills, grist mills and a cheese factory were the industry in this community. The shooting in April of 1991 was the first documented and well known gang related shooting in the suburb of Bolingbrook and now residents were panicking about the possibility of gangs growing much larger and more violence to come. Barber and his family turned the area into a dairy farm and named the area Barber’s Corner which would become the long standing name for the whole Bolingbrook area for years to come. He also has a Black P Stone tattoo which proves this shooting was gang related and so was the fight at R.H.S. Bolingbrook had many rough sections but the most notorious was Beaconridge, Innsbrook and Fernwood. Bolingbrook mainly consisted of African American gangs in the early and mid-1980s. They had a section but it was not as developed as it would be toward the end of the decade but there was a significant section in town. In the year 1981, the Bolingbrook police began dealing with an increase in such crimes as vandalism and theft, upon investigation police uncovered that Chicago based street gangs were largely responsible for this recent criminal activity. or. Community See All. By 1963 another subdivision known as Colonial Village was built up, and by 1965 the two subdivisions’ residents put together the Village of Bolingbrook and achieved incorporation. Not Now. Most of Bolingbrook’s heavier gang activity happened in the 1990s which brought the suburb a bad reputation for being a tough community. New gangs appeared in the neighborhood such as Black Souls, Mickey Cobras, Black Disciples, Sin City Boys and Latin Angels. 3,970 people like this. Daily Herald is suburban Chicago's largest daily newspaper. Bolingbrook was an ideal suburb to live in back in the 1970s especially after Old Chicago opened in 1975 that featured a large mall for shopping and also an amusement ride park that operated in full force until 1980 when the amusement park section of it closed down the shopping area would follow by 1986. This denial probably did not help draw enough attention to the gangs operating in the Beaconridge subdivision which is where many of the brawlers lived but attended Romeoville High School. Create New Account. It wasn’t until the later 1980s that Hispanic gangs began to show up in the suburb especially the Latin Kings. The fears would soon turn into reality as the Bolingbrook gangs grew into very large numbers in the early and mid-1990s. Several beatings and robberies happened in Beaconridge many years ago, this led the Bolingbrook police to have plain clothes police officers to foot patrol the subdivision.