West Englewood

Police body camera footage appears to contradict parts of a television news report in which a Chicago man claimed CPD officers beat and wrongly arrested him while he was trying to rescue his younger brother from a Fourth of July “teen takeover.”

Nearly two weeks after an arsonist killed a family of four in West Englewood, officials are renewing their appeal for information and offering a reward of up to $10,000 for tips that lead to an arrest.

Shortly after robbing and carjacking two brothers of their Infiniti G37, Sebastian Perez allegedly recorded himself flashing the car’s license plates and bragging, “We got keys to this b***h!” That social media boast ultimately became, um, key evidence that prosecutors have now leveraged into an eight-year prison sentence for Perez.

One of two men charged with robbing a 17-year-old boy at a CTA Green Line station was already on pretrial release for allegedly carrying a gun at that same station, court records show.

FBI agents executing a search warrant at a South Side home uncovered a cache of firearms, machine gun conversion devices, and suspected narcotics, federal officials said as they charged two Chicago men.

A 23-year-old Venezuelan migrant is accused of lying in wait outside a South Side day care center and shooting his former partner’s new boyfriend as the couple arrived to drop off a child.

A man wearing an electronic monitoring device for allegedly burglarizing contractor vehicles has been arrested for throwing a construction worker to the ground and stealing thousands of dollars in tools from the victim’s work truck, authorities said.

A four-time convicted felon has been charged with murdering a woman whose remains were discovered inside a burning garage this week and then sexually assaulting another woman within hours, according to Chicago police.

A Chicago anti-violence worker has been sentenced to 22 years in federal prison for a string of violent carjackings in West Englewood that left one victim shot and others threatened at gunpoint.

A Chicago man who robbed two taxi drivers and an Uber driver at gunpoint during a 4-day spree has been sentenced to 11 years in federal prison. Prosecutors say Anthony Reed threatened to kill his victims and pistol-whipped one cabbie before fleeing with their cash and belongings.

A man faces attempted murder charges for shooting one of his narcotics customers with a “less-lethal” pellet gun, leaving the victim paralyzed, on a ventilator, and near death, prosecutors said.

A man who was fatally shot at a South Side smoke shop on Friday afternoon may have shot one of his killers before dying. Now, police have the injured suspect in custody while his possible accomplice remains on the loose.