Dr. Lance Williams, Professor of Urban Community Studies at Northeastern Illinois University and an expert in gang violence, ...

Larry Hoover's family and supporters visited the state capital on Saturday to ask Governor Pritzker for the Chicago gang ...

The path went through California, Mississippi and Florida before ending Wednesday with Trump commuting Hoover's life sentence ...

President Trump has promised to attack drug gangs and called for the death penalty for street dealers. But he has also ...

President Donald Trump has granted clemency to Larry Hoover Sr., the founder of a Chicago gang, after rapper Kanye West ...

President Donald Trump has pardoned the federal life sentence of Larry Hoover, one of Chicago’s most notorious gang leaders ...

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As a newly minted special agent for the FBI in the early 2000s, Douglas DePodesta cut his teeth on a squad that went after Colombian and Mexican drug cartels that used the city as a hub for ...

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Larry Hoover is the former leader of the Gangster Disciples, a Chicago street gang that spread nationwide. Read about his ...

It is unclear why Trump pardoned Hoover, but his liberation has been championed by prominent rappers Kanye West and Aubrey ...

In a significant act of clemency, President Donald Trump has granted a commutation to Larry Hoover, the 74-year-old founder of the Gangster Disciples, a notorious Chicago-based gang. Hoover’s legal ...