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ChiTown 2.0 A Ghetto Love Story

ChiTown 2.0 A Ghetto Love Story

Di: Friederica Turner
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 ChiTown 2.0 is a gritty, seductive street-lit novel set in 1990s Chicago, centered on Tony “ChiTown” James — a smooth, calculating hustler who evolves from gangbanging and drug dealing into the dangerous, lucrative world of pimping. As ChiTown builds power alongside strong, ambitious women and his fiercely loyal best friend Rell, money, love, jealousy, and betrayal collide. What begins as a tightly controlled life spirals into a high-stakes war involving rival dealers, internal betrayal, hidden identities, and the constant threat of prison or death. At its core, ChiTown 2.0 is about ambition, loyalty, sexuality, survival, and the price of power, showing how fast success can turn into a trap, and how one wrong move can destroy everything built in the streets.2025 Arte Storia e critica della letteratura Teatro e spettacoli
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  • ChiTown 2.0 Chapter 5: Pressure From All Sides

    ChiTown 2.0 Chapter 5: Pressure From All Sides
    Jan 7 2026
    Chicago winter hit hard that year — sharp winds that slapped you awake, icy sidewalks, gray skies that pressed down on the city like a ceiling too low. But inside the apartment on Menard and Washington, the tension was hotter than any summer. Money changes people.
    Power changes them faster.
    And ambition…?
    Ambition changes everything.
    BUTTAFLY — THE GIRL WHO SURVIVED
    Chanel “Buttafly” Jones looked like she glided through life barefoot on clouds, but behind that beauty was a story that left scars no one could see. She was an only child — raised by a mother who fought breast cancer longer than the doctors said she could. When her mama finally passed, Buttafly was only fourteen, and the streets of Chicago swallowed her whole. She bounced around foster homes like a ping-pong ball:
    By sixteen she was on her own.
    By eighteen, she legally slipped out of the system.
    Smart. Beautiful. Stubborn.
    Determined never to be controlled again. Pimping didn’t scare her.
    Dancing didn’t shame her. Survival was her first language.
    Hustle was her religion. And now she wanted more — more girls, more money, more power.
    But MeMe didn’t like how fast she was moving.

    ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. No part of this book may be reproduced, distributed, or transmitted in any form or by any means, including photocopying, recording, electronic or mechanical methods, or by any information storage and retrieval system, without prior written permission from the copyright owner. COPYRIGHT © 2025 BY FRIEDERICA TURNER CHITOWN 2.0
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    14 min
  • ChiTown 2.0 Chapter 4: When Ambition Wakes Up

    ChiTown 2.0 Chapter 4: When Ambition Wakes Up
    Jan 7 2026
    CHAPTER FOUR — WHEN AMBITION WAKES UP Austin nights had a rhythm — sirens in the distance, hustlers on corners, buses rattling down Madison, old heads gambling behind liquor stores, and teenagers pretending they weren’t scared of anything. ChiTown moved through all of it with a quiet confidence. Money was coming in. MeMe and Buttafly held him down. Life was smooth. But smooth never lasts long in the city. Especially when ambition starts whispering in people’s ears. TERRELL “RELL” JONES — THE STREET-BOY SCHOLAR
    Rell wasn’t cut from the same cloth as ChiTown, not originally. He grew up on the West Side too, but his home looked different. His parents were middle-class — married, steady jobs, clean house, family trips on holidays, church every Sunday whether he wanted to go or not. The kind of Black family other kids wished they had. He was the third child of four:
    College wasn’t optional in that household — it was destiny.
    Expectations hung over Rell like a uniform he didn’t want to wear. His mama used to say, “Boy, God didn’t put you on this Earth to chase them damn streets.” But the streets sang louder than any sermon. Rell didn’t grow up hungry… but he grew up curious.
    Curious about danger.
    Curious about fast money.
    Curious about the thrill of owning the night instead of following rules in the daylight. By 16, he was sneaking out the house.
    By 18, he had a son with a girl from the block — a girl who loved him but couldn’t keep him home.
    By 21, he was running with ChiTown full-time, hustling, stacking, learning how to maneuver without cracking under pressure. His parents never understood it.
    Still didn’t. But Rell?
    He was addicted to the feeling of power the streets gave him — the attention, the danger, the freedom. So when ChiTown came home to money, women, and status… Rell started wanting more for himself too.

    ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. No part of this book may be reproduced, distributed, or transmitted in any form or by any means, including photocopying, recording, electronic or mechanical methods, or by any information storage and retrieval system, without prior written permission from the copyright owner. COPYRIGHT © 2025 BY FRIEDERICA TURNER CHITOWN 2.0
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    11 min
  • ChiTown 2.0 Chapter 3: BACK HOME WITH A BAG

    ChiTown 2.0 Chapter 3: BACK HOME WITH A BAG
    Jan 7 2026
    Getting away from Miami felt like escaping a storm that hadn’t fully hit yet. Even once they were speeding down I-95 with palm trees fading behind them, MeMe kept looking in the rearview mirror like trouble might still be on their tail. Buttafly clutched her purse on her lap the whole ride — the purse that held nearly $42,000 in cash.
    Their breath didn’t fully settle until they crossed into Georgia. “Girl,” Buttafly exhaled, “we almost got smoked in Miami.” MeMe smirked tiredly. “Almost don’t count. We made it.” Their next stop was Atlanta, because scared money never made money — and they weren’t leaving the South until their pockets felt heavy enough to change a man’s life.

    ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. No part of this book may be reproduced, distributed, or transmitted in any form or by any means, including photocopying, recording, electronic or mechanical methods, or by any information storage and retrieval system, without prior written permission from the copyright owner. COPYRIGHT © 2025 BY FRIEDERICA TURNER CHITOWN 2.0
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    11 min
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