flamboyance is his cologne: flukey stokes

While Chicago is primarily famous for gangsters like Al Capone and John Dillinger, it was a man named Flukey Stokes who by the 1980's, came to sit on the throne of the Chicago crime kingdom, running an estimated $50 million heroin business with his son, Willie the Wimp. Flukey was reknowned for his excess and flashiness, but this did nothing to make him any less of a killer. He was accused of more than 30 murders during his reign. All the high times and expensive goods that a profitable drug business could provide were had by Flukey and his son including extravagant mansions, fancy cars, and of course, women. There's a documentary's worth of stories on Flukey and I'm thinking that's probably why they made one about him. It is entitled, "The Flukey Stokes Story" and was produced by As Is, one of the premier urban documentary makers. Perhaps the most well told story about Flukey is pictorialized in the photo below. Yep. That's his son Willie the Wimp, buried in a Cadillac coffin that Flukey had custom made so he'd stay flossed in the afterlife. Nuff said.