Chicago SubX.News® Street Report
In one day and a few city blocks, we taxpayers keep paying while drains stay clogged, streets flood, pumps break, bike lanes drown, and the system stays soft on troublemakers but hard on regular people.
It’s March 16, 2026. Campaign signs are out, politicians want my vote, and they all say they care about the city.
But within about three hours, just doing simple chores—not looking for anything in particular—I kept running into proof that things aren’t being taken care of.
If the work isn’t being done, did any of us get a tax refund for services we’re not getting?
At 10:20 a.m., I look down my street and see water flooding the curb and parking spots. Not from a big storm—just because the storm drains and gutters are jammed with leaves that have been there since November.
No leaves left on the trees; they’re all in the gutter.
The city puts up signs, tickets you if you park wrong, tells you to keep the area clean. But if they can write the ticket, they can clean the drain.
Instead, the water doesn’t go down, it ices up and floods where people live and park. That’s not on the residents. That’s on lazy politicians and lazy city workers.
By 12:32 p.m., I’m at the local library. I sit in the kids’ section—no kids there, it’s a school day—and the security guard tells me I have to move.
Meanwhile, inside the vestibule, there’s a guy drugged up, smoking, and all they do is crack a door to air it out while I’m the one who gets told to move. I’m the problem, not the person doing drugs on library property.
This is what people call anarcho‑tyranny: the system is soft on the people causing real problems, and hard on the people who follow the rules.
They ignore the drugged‑up guy in the doorway, but they have time to bother you about where you sit.
At 12:43 p.m., I look at the Walgreens across the street. The front door window is busted out and covered with plywood.
Maybe it was vandalism or a break‑in. Maybe the company just doesn’t think fixing it fast matters in this neighborhood.
Either way, this is the last pharmacy around, and it’s sitting there boarded up like nobody cares how it looks or what it says about the area.
By 12:50 p.m., I stop at the Citgo on Wood Street because they’ve got cheap gas. Every pump has a sign: no credit or debit at the pump. You can’t just fill up and go—you have to walk in, tell them how much you want, and prepay.
Me and another longtime resident, Pat, look at it and basically say, “fuck them,” and leave.
Drivers paying gas taxes keep the roads and streets going, but we can’t even get a working pump in our own neighborhood.
Finally, at 1:09 p.m., I’m at 14th and Damen, looking at a brand‑new bike lane. They spent who knows how many millions on bike lanes, squeezed regular drivers for “the environment” and “safety,” all the buzzwords.
And what do we have?
A bike lane flooded out and full of debris, water standing where bikes are supposed to ride. On both sides. You can’t even use it. So they build this shiny “new infrastructure” with tax money that mostly comes from drivers paying gas taxes, and then they don’t maintain it.
That’s your bike lane scam right there: not about bikes, not about the environment—just a way to pander for votes and burn money while basics fall apart.
Some people will say I’m exaggerating. That it’s just a clogged drain, one bad day at the library, one broken window, a card reader down at the pump, a little flooding in a bike lane.
When all this happens in about three hours, on the same day, in the same part of the city, it doesn’t feel like an accident.
It feels like anarcho‑tyranny and a culture of mediocrity and selfishness: the people in charge are too lazy or too scared to deal with real problems, but they’re very good at ticketing us, lecturing us, and asking for our vote.
You want my vote?
Start by fixing the block I live on.
Lazy mayor means you got lazy city employees means you got crappy city services … there you go leaves have been down since November now we got snow and ice and it’s flood time 10:20 a.m. March 16th 2026 it’s Southside of Chicago
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Bike lane scam flooded out and dirty 1:10 p.m. March 16th 2026 14th and Damen going south https://youtube.com/shorts/RPC3arqj1WY
