Archive for July 2025
Jumpers, Benders, and Plow Trucks: Lollapalooza’s Raggedy Chicago Welcome
SubX.News Street Report | July 31, 2025 Just as thousands poured into the city for Lollapalooza, the “welcome crew” at Clark and Lake wasn’t city greeters or safety staff —…
Read MorePlayed Like Suckers: Our Money, Their Power — Nothing for the People
Street Report SubX.News | July 30, 2025 | The blood started early. A 69‑year‑old woman in Little Village was hit in a parking lot on 26th Street at 1:21 in…
Read MoreKeeping Clean during Crashes, Fights, Looting, and a Global Earthquake
Chicago SubX.News Street Reports July 29, 2025 We have to stay clean and strong to make it through a day in Chicago. Lunch at Ann’s Bakery — pierogis, pork stew,…
Read MoreBikers Tore Downtown Apart While the Mayor Hid from a Teen Mass Shooting — And Somehow Crime Is Still ‘Down’
SubX.News Street Reports | July 28, 2025 Bikers invaded downtown Chicago, heading eastbound on Roosevelt from Clinton, stunting in traffic and hauling girls on handlebars down Lake Shore Drive. No…
Read MoreThey Sold Us Out: Hijacking the Revolution — Fred Hampton Jr. Silenced at Commemoration of His Father’s Murder Site
On July 26, 2025, Chicago politicians and nonprofit allies gathered outside a Walgreens at 2350 W. Madison Street to unveil a historical plaque marking the former Illinois Black Panther Party…
Read More‘This Is As Bad As It Gets’: MWRD’s Deep Tunnel Is a Deep Disgrace — Resumes Heavy on Identity and Light on Infrastructure
Chicago – The rain didn’t fail the South Side on July 25, 2025 — the system did. Again. South side of Chicago flooding. Midway Airport are: I’ve lived in this…
Read MoreEven the Rich Folks Are Saying We Are Broke and Closed
SubXNews Street Reports from July 25, 2025 The mattress store is gone. The bank is gone. The people are gone. And yet the police are still everywhere—guarding shuttered corridors, breaking…
Read MoreRot on the Rails: CTA’s Criminal Collapse and the Migrant Housing Scam
SubXNews Street Report July 24, 2025 The rain didn’t break Chicago — the system did. What began with a storm warning spiraled into a full display of decay: collapsing infrastructure,…
Read MoreChicago’s Urban Meltdown: Cops Watch, Kids Bake, While Migrant Mother Walks Away
SubX.News Street Reports The scorching heat of July 23, 2025—with temperatures soaring to 95 degrees—became a crucible that exposed Chicago’s deepening systemic failures across every level of urban life. Child…
Read MoreCity of Impotency: One Man Takes Over a Federal Building and Shuts Down Chicago While Mayor Signs Executive Order to Talk to Criminals About Rules They Are Breaking
Chicago’s impotence was on full display today as a single man took over a federal building with a knife, holding downtown hostage for nearly nine hours, while Mayor Brandon Johnson…
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