Gangster Disciples founder Larry Hoover is getting support from a former New York mob prosecutor as he petitions for his ...

Gregory "Shorty G" Shell was freed from federal prison last year after dozens of years in federal prison. He says he's paid ...

Hoover's supporters told the Illinois Prisoner Review Board the former kingpin is a changed man. But a Cook County prosecutor ...

A Gotti prosecutor now says the Gangster Disciples founder is no longer a threat. Inside the clemency fight gripping Chicago.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. For 23 hours a day, Larry Hoover, the founder of notorious street gang Gangster Disciples, had been sitting in a 7-by-12-foot ...

President Donald Trump has commuted the sentence of former Chicago gang kingpin Larry Hoover. Hoover was convicted of operating a criminal enterprise in the late 1990s while imprisoned on a murder ...

Larry Hoover, in prison since 1973, faces the parole board with his wife, Winndye Jenkins, at the Dixon Correctional Center on on Feb. 7, 1995, in Dixon, Illinois. John Dziekan/Chicago Tribune/Tribune ...

For 23 hours a day, Larry Hoover, the founder of notorious street gang Gangster Disciples, had been sitting in a 7-by-12-foot concrete cell at the ADX Florence federal supermax facility in Colorado, ...

Lawyers for Hoover, 74, say his health is deteriorating. Lawyers for Larry Hoover, founder of the Gangster Disciples, are asking Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker to grant him state clemency following Donald ...