Greg yance biography

Greg Yance looks out a window of the Michigan Avenue luxury hotel where he is staying. From this vantage point, 39 stories up, his West Side home turf looks as peaceful and sunny as the day, nothing like the life-constricting place he remembers from his years running with the Vice Lords, slinging drugs and doing other things about which he will only say, “I plead the 5th.”

Yance has been in posh downtown hotels before, he says, but this is the first time with what he terms “legal money.” He is a guest of the cable channel HBO, and right now he is in the suite of the famous actor whose first directing project was to film the story of Yance’s life redeemed.

The year-old ex-gang member beckons Charles Dutton over to the window.

Greg points out the Cabrini-Green building where his father was shot to death when he was 8.

Yance tells how his father died: Hanging out with one guy who some other guys came looking for. They both got shot. His dad ran to the s