In a city where legendary street gang leaders Jeff Fort and Larry Hoover took their place beside Al Capone in the local criminal hall of fame, the powerful Chicago gang kingpin is looking more and ...

In some ways, Papachristos said, today’s gangs are more similar to the groups that existed in the 1960s.

President Donald Trump on Wednesday commuted the federal sentence for Larry Hoover, a former Chicago gang leader who is serving a life sentence in a supermax prison in Colorado — most of which ...

Larry Hoover, Former Chicago Gang Leader, Wins Commutation From Trump Mr. Hoover was accused of directing the Gangster Disciples even after he went to prison in the 1970s.