They have successfully bribed a prison guard in Milwaukee to smuggle drugs into an institution and are involved in racketeering[7] and loan sharking.
[9] In the 1960s, Simon City became involved in turf wars with other gangs including the Imperial Gangsters, Latin Kings, Jokers, Drakers, and Belairs.
The original corners that the Simon City Royals claimed, were Irving Park Road and Ashland Avenue, in the Lakeview neighborhood.
By this time the Royals had spread out to include neighborhoods like Albany and School, Drake and Wolfram, Southport and Fullerton, Central Park and Wilson, California and Fletcher, Farwell and Clark, Marshfield and Grace, among others.
Hynes spent over twenty years in prison and was killed shortly after his release after being involved in the stabbing of a woman in a Chicago bar.
[citation needed] The Royals killed several members of the Deuces and the Kings and the PR Stones in the 1980s, in addition to the 14-year-old that they shot in the back.
The Royals still control some of their historic strongholds on the north side of Chicago and have spread into the suburbs and other states such as Wisconsin and Mississippi.
Skyler's disappearance has been tied by police to the Simon City Royals as he was a former member and wanted to leave the gang.
Police believe his friend Travis Brewer and his girlfriend Amanda Morris might have lured him into the woods and killed him in exchange for drugs or money from the gang.
[12] Besides the disappearance of Skyler Burnley the Simon City Royals have been involved in numerous other high-profile acts of criminality.
In February 2017 they kidnapped two sailors on leave and forced them to draw cash from an ATM and then left them on a side of the road.