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 ...

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 ...

Five months after President Donald Trump commuted his federal life sentence, Gangster Disciples founder Larry Hoover has made his pitch for clemency on a state murder case to the Illinois Prisoner ...

CHICAGO (AP) — 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 ...

My jaw dropped while reading Jeremy Busby’s impassioned plea for Gov. JB Pritzker to free from prison post-haste the notorious 1970s gang leader Larry Hoover (“Pritzker should take page out of Trump’s ...

President Donald Trump has commuted the sentence of notorious former gang leader Larry Hoover after being lobbied for years by Kanye West. Hoover, now 74, was the leader of the Chicago-based Gangster ...

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 ...

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, ...