West Side Gang Territory Map

digital / JPEG, 619×781 / map / origin unverified / accessioned / catalogued curio

The object before the record.

FI-EPH-044 — West Side Gang Territory Map
FI-EPH-044 / West Side Gang Territory Map / source photograph 01

Evidence, relevance, and unresolved state.

Custody record

Logged 2026-09-26 / quantity 1 digital image. 1 source asset reference registered.

What is known

Found image supplied for The Shadow Zone: a scanned black-and-white newspaper-style map of a street grid bounded by Garfield Park and Douglas Park, with streets such as Pulaski Rd., Madison St., and Ogden Av. Callout labels pin named groups to intersections, including "The Vicelords," "The Spanish Counts," "The Satan's Helpers," "The Imperial Knights," and "The Senior Egyptian Cobras." The street names suggest Chicago's West Side, but the publication, its date, and the accuracy of the territories are unverified and reproduced as found. Maker, origin, and date are not recorded. The exif scrub reported no location metadata to strip.

Why it remains connected

accessioned / catalogued curio. Disposition: archive. The object remains associated with The Shadow Zone.

What remains unresolved

digital / JPEG, 619×781 / map / origin unverified. accessioned / catalogued curio. Terms marked unknown, provisional, pending, or unverified remain part of the record until evidence resolves them.

Keep the object connected.

The Shadow Zone

A holding zone for surreal found media and uncanny artifacts that surface around the archive — images with no clear origin, kept as evidence of the culture that accretes on forgotten machines.

Associated dossier / FI-PROJ-010 / open

Source Assets / 1 reference

Raw archive paths are retained for provenance and maintenance. They are not the primary object presentation.

  1. assets/ephemera/shadow-zone/fi-eph-044-west-side-gang-map.jpeg Open local asset