CHICAGO — 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 to ...

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 to be Hoover ...

Notorious gang leader works behind bars Hoover was a founder of the Gangster Disciples more than 50 years ago, which remains one of Chicago’s most notorious street gangs.

Larry Hoover Sr., the 74-year-old co-founder of the Chicago street gang, the Gangster Disciples, has had his prison sentence commuted by Donald Trump.

Hoover, founder of the notorious Gangster Disciples, was imprisoned in connection with a murder in 1973, and he was convicted in 1998 of running a criminal enterprise from inside an Illinois prison.

A week after shocking mass shooting outside River North lounge, links to city’s worst gang feud have surfaced again.

Of those, the Bloods, Crips, Gangster Disciples and Vice Lords are among the top gangs represented in prison, according to a 2020 survey by the NGCRC.

In ‘Pusherman: Frank Lucas & The True Story of American Gangster,’ director Legs McNeil explores the real drug kingpin played by Denzel Washington.