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 ...

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 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 ...

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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 ...