CHICAGO — Infamous Gangster Disciples founder Larry Hoover’s first court appearance in decades may have been via video link from a prison more than a thousand miles from Chicago, but the judge ...

The notorious co-founder of the Gangster Disciples street gang sat with his hands shackled in his lap Thursday, listening from a thousand miles away, as a judge in Chicago asked the question that ...

and Vice Lords and the Gangster Disciples in Chicago. These gangs grew more organized and more dependent on the drug trade. By the late ’60s, gang members were staying involved into adulthood ...

Chicago criminal legend Larry Hoover made his first appearance in court in more than 20 years today, albeit via video call. He told U.S. District Judge John Blakey that he is a changed man from ...

Hoover helped form the violent Gangster Disciples street gang, and he ran it from state prison while serving time for murder. In 1998, a federal judge told Hoover he’d misused his ability to lea ...

Chain gangs developed as a popular solution to that problem. Chain gangs were groups of convicts forced to labor at tasks such as road construction, ditch digging, or farming while chained together.

Lawyers representing Gangster Disciples founder Larry Hoover filed a motion Friday asking the judge overseeing Hoover’s request for release from a life sentence to recuse himself due to his “v ...

U.S. District Court U.S. District Court records Share The notorious co-founder of the Gangster Disciples street gang sat with his hands shackled in his lap Thursday, listening from a thousand ...