Weeks after President Donald Trump commuted the federal life sentence of Gangster Disciples founder Larry Hoover, an ...

Weeks after President Donald Trump commuted the federal life sentence of Gangster Disciples founder Larry Hoover, a letter arrived at the offices of Gov. JB Pritzker that purported ...

Larry Hoover will get out of the federal supermax where he was going to die, thanks to Trump. His full story beggars belief.

Ronald S. Safer, a partner at Riley Safer Holmes & Cancila, is a former federal prosecutor who led the U.S. Department of Justice’s prosecution of the Gangster Disciples during the 1990s.

Hoover, 74, built the Gangster Disciples into a nationwide street gang from its origins on Chicago's South Side in the 1970s. In 1973 he was convicted of ordering the execution of a rival drug dealer.

Dr. Lance Williams, Professor of Urban Community Studies at Northeastern Illinois University and an expert in gang violence, joins Karen Conti to discuss President Trump’s commutation of the sentence ...

Larry Hoover, 74, denounced his past and has been locked up for more than 50 years. But Trump is hardly the harbinger of ...

WBEZ’s Weekly News Recap, May 30, 2025: Illinois budget battle, former gang leader pardoned. A new Navy Pier marina opens for business. President Trump pardons Gangster Disciples leader.

Twenty-four inmates at the South Dakota State Penitentiary are facing assault and riot charges following a May 27 fight, and ...

SPRINGFIELD — Larry Hoover’s family members took his case to Gov. JB Pritzker’s office on Saturday as they seek a state commutation for the long-imprisoned Gangster Disciples co-founder, who ...

Larry Hoover, the former Chicago gang leader, had his federal prison sentence commuted by President Trump, yet he remains incarcerated due to a separate state sentence for a 1973 murder conviction ...

Kanye West, who has been a public Hoover advocate for years, posted on X in celebration: “Thank you Drake for helping to bring Hoover home.” Confused? We’ve got you. Related ...