The Street Gypsies

The Street Gypsies, as described by the author, is about the urban underclass of street characters who lived in Chicago's Uptown community during the 1970s. They were a society of free spirits. They were sometimes unsavory but almost always colorful characters who were street hustlers surviving on the streets by wit and grit, invariably getting caught up in the addictive nature of the lifestyle. The culture was probably a manifestation of the times. During those years, there was high unempl...