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.

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

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.

In February 2024, Meek was indirectly pulled into Rodney “Lil Rod” Jones’ $30 million lawsuit against Combs. Meek, referred ...

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.