Larry Hoover: The Controversial Legacy of a Chicago Icon
Larry Hoover, a polarizing figure in American history, is best known as the founder of the Gangster Disciples, a powerful Chicago-based street gang. Born in 1950 in Jackson, Mississippi, Hoover rose to prominence in Chicago’s Englewood neighborhood, where systemic poverty and inequality shaped his early life. Founding the Supreme Gangsters in the 1960s, he later…