President Donald Trump commuted the sentence of Larry Hoover, a former Chicago gang leader and drug kingpin serving a life sentence at a supermax prison in Colorado. The commutation, first reported by ...

State’s Attorney Eileen O’Neill Burke says Hoover, 75, took advantage of “misguided public policies and disinvestment” and ravaged Chicago’s neighborhoods with his creation of the Gangster Disciples.

Former gang leader Larry Hoover, who attracted support from celebrity rappers, is one of several people who had sentences commuted by Trump on May 28.

President Donald Trump on Wednesday commuted the life sentence of Larry Hoover, the co-founder and former leader of the violent Chicago street gang, the Gangster Disciples. Per FOX 32 Chicago, Hoover, ...

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In a new South Side Chicago–based novel, former gang boss Harold "Noonie G" Ward explores the hard truth that leaving the block doesn't mean the block leaves you. Within the pages of Altgeld, the ...

President Donald Trump is offering clemency to the co-founder of a notorious Chicago gang, a rap artist and a music executive in the latest use of his pardon and commutation powers, according to a ...

CHICAGO — One of Chicago's most infamous gang leaders asked Gov. JB Pritzker for clemency Wednesday after winning a pardon from President Donald Trump earlier this spring, arguing that he had been ...

The MarketWatch News Department was not involved in the creation of this content. In a new South Side Chicago--based novel, former gang boss Harold "Noonie G" Ward explores the hard truth that leaving ...