The wife of notorious Chicago gang leader and Gangster Disciples founder Larry Hoover wrote an open letter to Illinois First Lady MK Pritzker asking for her husband's state sentence to be commuted.

Hoover’s legal team has asked that the Gangster Disciples founder’s life sentence be reduced, which would allow him to be moved to an Illinois state prison to serve out a 200-year state term.

If Gangster Disciples co-founder wins freedom from federal term, Illinois prisons don’t want him Larry Hoover is challenging his federal life sentence under the 2018 First Step Act.

Trump has ended Larry Hoover’s six federal life sentences, yet the onetime Gangster Disciples boss remains locked up in Illinois.

Hoover remains eligible for parole in Illinois and has a hearing later this year. SPRINGFIELD, Ill. - Larry Hoover's family and supporters visited the state capital on Saturday to ask Governor ...

Although Hoover’s federal sentence is commuted, he still has to serve out his 200-year sentence in Illinois. The Illinois Prisoner Review Board denied Hoover’s request for early release last year.

What to know about onetime Chicago gang leader Larry Hoover, whose federal sentence Trump commuted One of Chicago’s most infamous gang leaders is among President Donald Trump’s most recent ...

For more than 20 years the self-styled “King Hoover” had, astonishingly, run the Gangster Disciples from an Illinois state prison. His so-called gang nation included 50,000 members in 35 states.

Judging from the parade of politicians who went to Joliet this week to sing the praises of a titular community leader named Larry Hoover, you’d think Hoover had spent the last 20 years building ...

Hoover's supporters say they are working on ways to get Hoover paroled or pardoned in Illinois, but questions linger about his chances and even where he will be imprisoned. Notorious gang leader ...

Hoover remains eligible for parole in Illinois and has a hearing later this year. “He’s not responsible for all gang violence that ever has occurred,” said attorney Jennifer Bonjean.