Truckin' With Gretchen

Truckin' With GretchenWhen I first met Gretchen, in the winter of 1970, she was living in a Roscoe Street apartment on Chicago's North Side, just a few blocks from where Bugs Moran had lived many years before. She was in her salad days then: a tough and pretty street pharmacist who knew all of Chicago's joints and alleys and all the ways to spot cops. She was living with a guy she called the Chemist.Gretchen gave nicknames to everyone and the Chemist got his because, although the two of them dea...