Chicago Street Reports | June 20, 2025
Friday began with armed criminals harming innocent people going to work in the morning in an accident that twisted metal and pinned a passenger. At 31st and Lowe, a stolen Hyundai blew a stop sign and slammed into a Honda and an Infiniti.
The driver fled on foot, leaving his own passenger—a John Doe—trapped inside the wreck. Two guns were recovered from the crashed vehicle. The driver was taken into custody and transported to Insight Hospital, then hauled off to the 9th District lockup.
The female Honda driver, who had been knocked unconscious by her airbag, was taken to Stroger Hospital and later listed in good condition. The male passenger of the Hyundai underwent emergency surgery and remains in critical condition in Stroger’s ICU.
Just after 3 p.m., Mayor Brandon Johnson vetoed a city ordinance to allow emergency curfews—the first veto by a Chicago mayor since 2006.
His reason? He says crime is going down.
The same day, a man was dragged under a train, a woman was stabbed, and shootings erupted across every side of the city—including one downtown during the dinner rush, right outside Lou Malnati’s, considered one of the oldest and most well-known names in Chicago pizza, and a popular spot for tourists in River North.
CTA chaos continued to mirror the street-level collapse.
A man was found underneath the Pink Line at Cicero and Cermak after being struck and pinned beneath the train. It took emergency crews over 30 minutes to extract him from under the lead car.
Elsewhere at State and Lake, another overdose victim collapsed unconscious on the Red Line platform.
On the Blue Line, at Addison, another man that was doing drugs was thrown out of the a train by disgusted passengers and later found disoriented, stumbling across the platform.
Over in the West Side neighborhoods, the breakdown of basic family structures spilled out into police calls.
At 5049 West Potomac, a man told officers that his parents were trying to kill him. A few miles away at 630 North Avers, a woman used a kitchen knife to defend herself from her violent 21-year-old son.
In another report a woman was seen beating up a man in a wheelchair near 57th and State. Police were on the scene but no arrests were made.
The spiral of guns and open lawlessness continued through the evening.
A group of white males with rifles—one of them wearing jeans and sandals—were spotted brandishing weapons near 74th and Wolcott. There are videos. No arrests.
On South Indiana, a woman stabbed her brother-in-law in the back. He was left immobile until emergency crews arrived.
At 79th Street Red Line station, people were openly selling drugs and drinking inside the terminal. And in the underground connector tunnel between the Blue and Red Lines, a woman was punched in the face while several men were seen walking the tunnel unchecked.
Just after 7 p.m., gunfire broke out outside Lou Malnati’s, a popular pizza spot that draws tourists to River North.
Two men got into a fight on the sidewalk. One pulled a gun and shot the other in the arm. Bleeding, the victim stumbled into the restaurant where staff and customers tried to stop the bleeding until EMS arrived.
The shooter fled eastbound on an e-bike wearing a camouflage hoodie and red backpack. As of this writing, he remains at large. Shell casings and blood were left on the pavement just feet from the dinner crowd.
This was prime tourist turf—nobody was spared.
Earlier in the afternoon, a 26-year-old woman was shot in the leg while walking on South Kedzie. Then at 4300 West Dickens, a 34-year-old man was hit in the leg by gunfire near an alley. A responding officer applied a tourniquet to stop the bleeding. He was transported to Mount Sinai in good condition.
In both cases, no suspects were arrested.
At 6125 South Prairie, an elderly woman was robbed in an alley. The suspect had been hiding in the bushes. He took all her belongings and fled on a bicycle. Just blocks away, at 539 East 46th Place, a 1-year-old child was reportedly taken from a front porch. That same hour, on Lake Shore Drive, a case of road rage escalated when one driver threw a brick at another’s car window.
At 9:15 p.m., the once-iconic Rock and Roll McDonald’s sat almost completely empty, with what looked like more workers than customers.
On a Friday night, tourists were hard to find. Just loiterers, drug users, and mentally ill trespassers scattered across the property. The smell of weed clung to the sidewalk. The space didn’t feel commercial anymore—it felt surrendered.
What do you think it smells like when you get out of your car or walk by going inside this McDonald’s here?
It’s weed everywhere.
There are mentally ill people, there’s drug dealers, vagrants, and criminals right here on the property … not one of them was eating anything McDonald’s.
That’s what destroyed this business.
It didn’t happen because the food got worse. It happened because the city stopped enforcing anything.
The people outside weren’t customers—they were trespassers. Not one came for a burger. They came to loiter, get high, and take over.
As one longtime resident wrote, “I remember a time when you had to wait for a table at the OG RnR McD’s.”
On the same day the mayor said things were improving, two of Chicago’s most visible businesses—Lou Malnati’s, where a man was shot in broad daylight, and Rock and Roll McDonald’s, left abandoned and overrun—stood as proof that they’re not.
By sunset, more than a dozen major crimes had unfolded in the open. No resolution. No relief.
The same city that vetoed a curfew measure claiming “crime is going down” witnessed shootings in every quadrant—including River North, where tourism dollars are supposed to be sacred.
So far in 2025, thirteen people have been shot in the Near North Side—up from eleven at this point last year. Seven of those shootings happened in River North alone.
This isn’t a recovery. It’s a controlled demolition.
References
31st/Lowe Crash, Weapons Recovered (20 June 25 08:06)
@SPOTNEWSonIG
https://x.com/SPOTNEWSonIG/status/1936048007230763304
Shooting – 1500 S. Kedzie (20 June 25 13:58)
@SPOTNEWSonIG
https://x.com/SPOTNEWSonIG/status/1936150358897967222
Mayor’s Curfew Veto (20 June 25 15:20) https://chicityclerk.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/s3fs-public-1/Mayor%20Veto%20SO2025-0016732.pdf
Overdose – State & Lake Red Line (20 June 25 16:59) https://facebook.com/share/p/1BsFwk9jXC/
Shooting – 4300 W. Dickens (20 June 25 16:35) https://facebook.com/share/v/19KJFbUxqN/
Cicero/Cermak – Pink Line Pedestrian Struck (20 June 25 16:40) https://facebook.com/share/p/14E43Ps4Weh/
His Parents are trying to kill him Potomac (20 June 25 17:04) https://facebook.com/share/p/1CHLf664pV/
Driver waving an American flag out his window 1800 South Lake Shore Drive check them out you might be have a DUI (20 June 25 17:23)
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Chicago Economy Crime and Migrant Update 530pm June 20 2025
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21 year old son threatening her she used a kitchen knife to protect herself 630 n Avers Fri Jun 20, 5:32pm
https://facebook.com/share/p/1ZZCaW8FRq/
White male threatening people at the pizza bar 405 n Dearborn (20 Jun 25, 17:34) https://facebook.com/share/p/1CHnFs9hzA/
Female is beating up person in a wheelchair 57 and State (20 June 25 17:35) https://facebook.com/share/p/1Ax4X5MyXK/
Security needs help 75th and Stony Island offender is very violent he’s in cuffs but need help (20 June 25 17:43)
https://facebook.com/share/p/1TEsGR2rFz/
Road rage Lake Shore Drive One driver threw a brick at another driver (20 June 25 18:12) https://facebook.com/share/p/19HZ8s3BXG/
White dudes with guns and fatigues one has jeans and sandals on shooting caller has video 7491 Wolcott (20 June 25 18:14) https://facebook.com/share/p/16swBt14dg/
Thrown off the Train … CTA overdose blue line Addison train 5227 we don’t have nobody to send (20 June 25 18:28) https://facebook.com/share/p/1EDmAj4VMQ/
Lou Malnati’s Shooting (20 June 25 19:05) https://facebook.com/share/p/15qoAQ1wws/
Stabbing – 6109 S. Indiana (20 June 25 19:13) https://facebook.com/share/p/1AgLtfc5nF/
robbery of ms brown elderly person took all her stuff Hispanic suspect in the alley was hiding in the bushes 6125 s prairie got away on a bicycle (20 June 25 19:25) https://facebook.com/share/p/19WUniLzdM/
Child Taken – 539 E 46th Pl (20 June 25 19:33) https://facebook.com/share/p/1BsaCeyTBK/
79th Street Red Line drinking and selling drugs inside the station (20 June 25 19:36)
https://facebook.com/share/p/16Txr3wAaK/
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@CWBChicago
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Rock and Roll McDonald’s – Empty and Overrun (20 June 25 21:15) https://x.com/SubxNews/status/1936260108343709710
Person in Custody Clark and Lake CTA Blue Line 10pm June 20 2025 (20 June 25 22:00)
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Memory Quote – OG RnR McD’s (20 June 25 22:24) https://x.com/WindyCityDriver/status/1936263853689467124
Groups of people on all different street corners Dearborn (20 June 25 23:25)
https://x.com/SubxNews/status/1936279354218029355
female punched in the face in the tunnel between the blue and the red line (21 June 25 00:11)
https://x.com/SubxNews/status/1936290915481432403
still some hidden spots in Chicago to explore might be small but they’re hidden (21 June 25 00:40)
https://x.com/SubxNews/status/1936298105940443285
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