Links posted on February 15, 2007
If The Wire is your thing, you'll probably also enjoy an incredibly engaging account of an enforcer for the Chicago gang "Gangster's Disciples" and how he ran for city alderman in 1994. I couldn't help the feeling that Larry Hoover was like a real-life Avon Barksdale the way he seems to run the Illinois prison system. It's also an eye-opening description of life in Chicago's projects. Is The Hole the real-life The Pit?