Restaurateur pleads guilty:

The chef-owner of several Chicago-area Chinese restaurants has pleaded guilty to federal charges alleging he underpaid state taxes by not reporting all cash receipts. Tony Hu pleaded guilty to one count each of wire fraud and money laundering Monday. Sentencing guidelines call for Hu to serve as much as four years in prison. A plea bargain also calls for Hu to pay restitution of more than $1 million to the state. The 48-year-old Hu, whose real name is Hu Xiaojun, runs the Tony Gourmet Group. Besides restaurants in Chicago, Evanston and Downers Grove, the group operates one restaurant in Connecticut and one in Las Vegas. Federal agents executed search warrants at several of Hu’s restaurants in Chicago’s Chinatown neighborhood in October 2014. They also searched his Michigan Avenue condominium.

Impersonator charged again:

A Chicago man who has twice been convicted of falsely impersonating a police officer has been charged with doing so again. Police said 47-year-old Hong Chu was driving on Chicago’s South Side when he pulled his vehicle behind another vehicle and climbed out wearing police insignia on his shirt and carrying handcuffs on his belt. Hu told the driver that he was a police officer before he left, authorities said. Chu is charged with a felony count of impersonating a peace officer. The Chicago Tribune reported that Chu was on probation for his second offense when he was arrested.

Third murder suspect arrested:

A third suspect has been arrested in the slaying of a 9-year-old boy who was lured from a Chicago playground into an alley with the promise of a juice box and shot to death. Kevin Edwards was stopped for a traffic violation Saturday in Vermilion County, 150 miles south of Chicago, and arrested on charges of resisting arrest and obstruction of justice. Police said he’ll be returned to Chicago, where he faces a first-degree murder charge. Edwards is suspected in the Nov. 2 killing of Tyshawn Lee. Authorities say Tyshawn’s shooting was apparently a gang killing related to his father, in retaliation for the slaying of the brother of one of the three suspects. Dwright Boone-Doty and Corey Morgan are already in custody, charged with first-degree murder.