Larry Hoover helped build the Gangster Disciples into a powerful organisation in Chicago’s South Side.

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Larry Hoover ‘deserves to be in prison,’ Chicago FBI boss says of Gangster Disciples founder A day after Donald Trump's stunning ...

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. CHICAGO, Jan. 14, 2026 /PRNewswire/ - ...

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 ...

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 ...

Jeramie Bizzle is a web producer for CBS Chicago. Jeramie began working with CBS Chicago as an intern in 2017 and returned as a full-time Web Producer in 2021. He has previously written for the Austin ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Larry Hoover ‘deserves to be in prison,’ Chicago FBI boss says of Gangster Disciples founder as lawyers praise Trump choice A day ...

The prison door seemed to permanently slam shut behind Larry Hoover 26 years ago, and many Chicagoans began to forget about him. Those who remember still compare him to Al Capone, the leader of a ...