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?

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 ...

CHICAGO — Weeks after President Donald Trump commuted the federal life sentence of Gangster Disciples founder Larry Hoover, a letter arrived at the offices of Gov. JB Pritzker that purported ...

Larry Hoover, in prison since 1973, faces the parole board with his wife, Winndye Jenkins, at the Dixon Correctional Center on on Feb. 7, 1995, in Dixon, Illinois.

Dr. Lance Williams, Professor of Urban Community Studies at Northeastern Illinois University and an expert in gang violence, joins Karen Conti to discuss President Trump’s commutation of the … ...

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.

Who is Larry Hoover? Hoover, also known as “King Larry,” was born in Jackson, Mississippi in 1950. When he was just four years old, his parents moved the family to Chicago, Illinois.

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'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.

Meanwhile, Hoover was still listed Thursday in online state prison records for Dixon Correctional Center in western Illinois — the same prison where he continued to run the Gangster Disciples ...

Breaking News, Sports, Manitoba, CanadaWhat to know about onetime Chicago gang leader Larry Hoover, whose federal sentence Trump commuted By: Sophia Tareen, The Associated Press Posted: 4:13 PM ...