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Man gets 8 years for chasing down, shooting victim outside Chinatown nightclub

September 6, 2026 2:06 PM CWBChicago
A Chicago man has pleaded guilty to attempted murder for chasing down and shooting another man during a dispute outside a Chinatown nightclub last year. Terris Williams, 32, was given an eight-year sentence after entering the plea before Judge Steven Watkins, court records show.

Chinatown

Man gets 6 years for robbing casino customers in River North, Chinatown

September 5, 2026 4:26 PM CWBChicago
A 28-year-old man has been given a six-year sentence for robbing three casino customers in Chinatown and River North, but with the state’s standard 50% sentence reduction and other credits, he’ll be out late next year.

Chinatown

4 arrested after CPD tracks Grant Park robbery crew to Chinatown

August 25, 2026 10:58 AM CWBChicago
Four suspects are in custody after a Chicago Police Department surveillance camera operator spotted them robbing victims in Grant Park early Tuesday morning. Officers tracked the getaway car to Chinatown and arrested the crew as they tried to escape on the Red Line.

Bronzeville

Man accused of $130,000 Chicago firehouse axe spree carried weapon ‘for protection from firefighters’

April 13, 2026 6:11 PM Tim Hecke
We’ve learned more about the alleged motives of the man accused of causing widespread damage in a string of axe attacks on property at Chicago firehouses over the past two months, and we now know just how much damage officials think he caused: $130,000.

Bronzeville

Man charged with damaging vehicles outside Chicago firehouses; 21 felonies filed

April 12, 2026 12:16 PM CWBChicago
A man is now in custody, accused of taking an axe to firefighters’ vehicles across Chicago, with police effectively extinguishing a bizarre crime spree on the same Chinatown block where it began.

Bronzeville

Chicago firehouses targeted in string of axe attacks

April 11, 2026 7:31 AM Tim Hecke
A man has been using an axe to chop up the cars of Chicago firefighters parked outside city firehouses — but you wouldn’t know that from reading CPD’s just-released public alert about the crime spree.

Chinatown

20 years for nearly killing beloved chef in brutal Chinatown carjacking

February 13, 2026 12:18 PM Tim Hecke
A man who carjacked and brutally beat a well-known Chinatown chef in 2022, leaving him with permanent injuries, has been sentenced to 20 years in prison. Termaine Patterson, 22, received the sentence from Judge Timothy Joyce for the April 7, 2022, attack on Jin Lew, who was then 61 years old

Chinatown

Man gets 65 years for executing Chinatown grandfather in random daylight attack

January 30, 2026 6:25 PM Tim Hecke
A Cook County judge on Friday sentenced a man to 65 years in prison for gunning down a 71-year-old grandfather in random, daylight in Chinatown more than four years ago.

Chinatown

Chicago woman charged with laundering large volumes of cash for Mexican drug cartels

November 1, 2025 5:01 PM CWBChicago
Federal officials have charged a Chicago woman with laundering large volumes of suspected narcotics proceeds after a months-long investigation linked her to cash exchanges tied to Mexican drug cartels and Chinese cryptocurrency networks, according to a recently unsealed federal complaint.

Chinatown

Chinatown killer found guilty in random murder of 71-year-old Woom Sing Tse

October 23, 2025 4:47 PM Tim Hecke
A Cook County jury needed about an hour on Thursday to convict a 27-year-old man of first-degree murder for gunning down a 71-year-old grandfather in Chinatown four years ago.

Chinatown

Chinatown casino shuttle robbery suspect is charged with second attack

June 26, 2025 7:01 AM Tim Hecke
The man accused of robbing a victim after he stepped off a casino shuttle bus in Chinatown earlier this year is now charged with robbing another person in the neighborhood that same day.

Chinatown

Boys, ages 13 and 16, charged with mugging man on Red Line near Chinatown

May 22, 2025 12:38 PM CWBChicago
A 16-year-old boy has become the second person charged in connection with the violent robbery of a CTA passenger earlier this year, Chicago police said Thursday.

Chinatown

86-year-old man unlikely to survive after woman pushed him for leaning on her car, officials say

April 12, 2025 1:08 AM CWBChicago
An 86-year-old man is critically injured and unlikely to survive after a woman pushed him to the ground because he was leaning on her car in Chinatown, officials said.

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