Author Description

In this installment, Windy City Gangster provides a vivid and uncensored tale of one man's journey through life, from childhood, adulthood, and everything in between. Here, the author, Erick Charles (also known as Rico G), shares his view of life growing up in the gang-plagued neighborhoods of Chicago's North Side. From the slums of the West Indies to the urban jungle of the mean streets of America's third largest city, the author (Charles) manages to adapt while learning and utilizing the tools provided from an array of characters, from drug dealers to pimps. Though riddled with personal trials and tribulations of his own, he manages to survive. From behind the walls of the Federal Bureau of Prisons, Charles provides an outlook of his own hardships, along with numerous lessons which would later become the soundtrack to the life of one of the city's most feared yet revered Insane Gangsters.