Some community and elected leaders on Chicago's South Side are calling on Gov. JB Pritzker to offer clemency to former Chicago gang leader Larry Hoover one day after his federal sentences were ...

President Donald Trump has commuted the federal life sentence of Larry Hoover, but the 74-year-old notorious gang leader isn’t leaving prison anytime soon. The commutation applies to Hoover’s federal ...

Larry Hoover's family is seeking state clemency to help the Gangster Disciples co-founder secure his freedom for the first time in over 50 years. After receiving federal clemency from Donald Trump, ...

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 ...

A day after Donald Trump’s stunning decision to commute the federal life sentence of Larry Hoover, lawyers for the Chicago-born Gangster Disciples founder were singing the president’s praises while ...

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Former Chicago gang leader Larry Hoover’s federal prison sentence was commuted by President Donald Trump, sparking widespread discussion and renewed attention to his decades-long incarceration. Hoover ...

My jaw dropped while reading Jeremy Busby’s impassioned plea for Gov. JB Pritzker to free from prison post-haste the notorious 1970s gang leader Larry Hoover (“Pritzker should take page out of Trump’s ...

Jeramie Bizzle is a web producer for CBS Chicago. Jeramie began working with CBS Chicago as an intern in 2017 and returned as a full-time Web Producer in 2021. He has previously written for the Austin ...