Why has the president chosen to commute the sentence of a violent Chicago crime lord, particularly when he has consistently expressed an anathema for violent crime?

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 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, founder of the notorious Gangster Disciples, was imprisoned in connection with a murder in 1973, and he was convicted in 1998 of running a criminal enterprise from inside an Illinois prison.

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’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.

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 ...

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 ...

One of Chicago’s most infamous gang leaders is among President Donald Trump’s most recent presidential commutations. The puzzling move raised questions about whether Larry Hoover will be freed.