Here’s a look back at what happened in the Chicago area on April 21, according to the Tribune’s archives. Is an important event missing from this date? Email us. 1855: One person was killed and 60 ...

President Donald Trump has commuted the federal life sentence for infamous Chicago-born Gangster Disciples founder Larry Hoover, abruptly ending Hoover’s yearslong quest to win early release under the ...

President Donald Trump commuted the sentence of Larry Hoover, a former Chicago gang leader serving a life sentence at a supermax prison in Colorado. The commutation, first reported by the news website ...

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 ...

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 ...

The much touted and debated plan to dig up gangster John Dillinger's remains has ended without a grain of dirt displaced. What began last summer as a made-for-TV effort to unearth the former fugitive, ...

On July 9, 1951, three oddly dressed robbers approached a security truck owned by Brink’s while it was parked at the Bowman Dairy Company near Goose Island. The only thing standing between the shotgun ...

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 ...