State’s Attorney Eileen O’Neill Burke says Hoover, 75, took advantage of “misguided public policies and disinvestment” and ravaged Chicago’s neighborhoods with his creation of the Gangster Disciples.

Hoover's supporters told the Illinois Prisoner Review Board the former kingpin is a changed man. But a Cook County prosecutor said he should stay in state prison. Gov. JB Pritzker will get a ...

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 ...

A leader of Chicago's Four Corner Hustlers gang was sentenced to life in federal prison for his role in a violent criminal ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Five months after President Donald Trump commuted his federal life sentence, Gangster Disciples founder Larry Hoover has made his ...

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. Within the pages of Altgeld, the ...

WASHINGTON (WLS) -- President Donald Trump slammed Chicago's violence as he kicked off African American History Month at the White House Wednesday during a meeting with African American ministers.