SubX.News® Street Report – April 29, 2026
Chicago spends another afternoon and evening stacking damage on top of damage — in courtrooms, on scanners, and on the streets themselves.
The day runs from broken pavement to stolen cars, from migrant‑linked murder cases to a grandson calling in a stabbing, with a 12‑year‑old reported on a roof with a knife and whole blocks left boarded up.
Traffic and news reports open around 4:00 p.m. moving along downtown streets that were supposedly repaired.
They didn’t fix that pothole. It’s still right there.
If that’s what I can see, that’s busted… what else is broken there, right?
What other things are broken that we don’t know about, right?
Is there metal that’s rusted, the beams? Is their bolts busted?
Weak pieces get weak, then things happen. It can collapse.
On the radio, coverage of Officer John Bartholomew’s killing runs alongside debate over reversing Illinois’ bail reform law.
Another names Loyola student Sheridan Gorman and identifies Jose Medina, a 25‑year‑old Venezuelan national bused from Texas, as the accused shooter.
Her father’s words cut through the recap:
We want accountability in the courtroom… and we want real, meaningful change that puts public safety over politics.
Regional calls add to the load: a teen shot outside Gately Stadium, a body in the Fox River, a fake injured‑dog GoFundMe, burglaries and gun cases.
The observation is simple:
Crime needs to be managed.
Not new fake laws made up.
You lock em up. That’s it.
You lock people up.
Approaching downtown in the 4:30 p.m. hour, citywide dispatch traffic breaks in.
A robbery and carjacking hit 225 South Canal.
Citywide, a robbery just occurred. 225, South canal… Two male blacks pulled a gun on him and took his Cadillac, black in color … armed carjacking. Cadillac XTS.
Near Adams, multiple units pack into a parking garage.
They’re in… the parking garage right there… big police presence right there, right? But we don’t hear none on the radio.
They sell a lot of drugs over here on Adams… they jumped somebody here the other day. They jumped the kid for a hoodie.
Sidewalks that once carried rush‑hour workers now sit thin.
Downtown is empty… there’s a lot of bad guys walking around … there’s something going on. That’s for sure.
Attention shifts to River North at 5:12 p.m. moving through the Kinzie and State / Kinzie and Hubbard corridor — once a late‑night strip, now lined with closures.
If you wanted a party, this is where you came to party
Boards and available signs replace regular business.
You can’t sustain a city like this, boarded up, loss of businesses and crime, that’s not how you can make money. We need revenue … this no revenue here.
The strip carries its own homicide history.
They just killed a security guard here … they pushed him down the stairs here … there was a guy over here … he got shot by a cop because he stabbed somebody.
Explanations that lean on the pandemic need to be rejected.
People come up with excuses of why they close and this and this. Listen, covid has been over with for a long time. If you keep using covid as an excuse, that’s what it is.
It’s an excuse. It always has been.
The evening commute period turns into a series of live chases.
Scanner traffic points south.
A stolen truck is running. The case ends near the rail corridor at 71st and Parnell.
They apprehended him. 7140 South low detained… he dumped one guy at 43rd and Union.
On scene, a red pickup sits boxed in, a stolen truck recovered … they just got this guy.
Another call hits: a blue Hyundai, stolen out of Colorado, is now heading through the Southside grid.
Another stolen car, 79th in Cottage. 79th and King, that’s another stolen car… that’s the third stolen car in a half hour.
The Hyundai threads through 79th, Cottage Grove, King and side streets while officers try to contain it and civilian traffic keeps moving, unaware.
While the second auto theft is still active, the most serious call of the day comes through.
A young relative on 73rd Street tells 911 what he has just seen.
Grandson called in. His grandmother was stabbed. She’s in a bathtub. 73rd Street. 12 is what, Racine maybe.
The address settles at 1217 West 73rd.
On arrival, the scene is plain:
This is a scene of a stabbing. The grandson called in that his grandma was stabbed in the bathtub… citizen app confirms it… woman, stab.
The houses around the call show long‑term neglect.
Oh man, this is a bad neighborhood. Look at that. Oh man. I don’t even know if I want to stay in this neighborhood. It’s bad.
You see those abandoned buildings there?
The focus returns to the boy.
It’s sad that the grandson found his grandma and has to suffer that trauma.
Another risk stacks onto the same part of the map.
A dispatch reports a child with a weapon.
1425 east 69th Street, they said a 12 year old with a black hoodie on the roof has a large knife.
A second complaint follows nearby.
1410, E, 69th place… she believed he just waved a gun in the air… that’s the same block… must be something happening in their neighbor.
The pattern is clear: a knife on a roof, a gun pointed in the air, same stretch of East 69th.
Crime always has a nexus. It comes from some place… when you find out who that somebody is, or where it’s coming from, then you figure out how to remediate it.
By late evening, the stacked calls sound less like a list and more like a diagnosis.
Okay, so three things are going on. There’s a guy with a knife on a metra train… a lady’s stabbed in a bathtub on 73rd Street … and there’s a fight down here on 51st into Dan Ryan, plus a few other things…
We got about two, three dead people.
We got a guy with a knife, and we got a fight on the highway.
On the way out of the immediate hot spots, Auburn Gresham and the 69th Street corridor show rows of abandoned units.
They got a lot of boarded up houses here, right there… that whole apartment building’s abandoned …
They keep saying we got a housing shortage.
No, we don’t have a housing shortage.
We just we have, a not fixed housing shortage.
Across four hours, the picture stays the same while the locations change:
Broken pavement,
Empty downtown streets,
Wiped‑out party strip,
Migrant‑linked murder case in court,
Stolen cars running live through traffic,
Grandmother stabbed in her own bathtub,
12‑year‑old on a roof with a knife,
Whole blocks left boarded up.
The trauma is visible, specific, and ongoing.
The treatment is not.
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Image Stolen red pickup truck recovered near 71st & Parnell after a multi-area run. Driver dumped one passenger at 43rd & Union, continued south, and attempted to flee using railroad tracks before being taken into custody. Vehicle a blown tire, searched by responding units. April 29 2026 http://SubX.News®
Editor’s Note This report is based on a live video drive, broadcast radio traffic, and independent police scanner feeds.
Chicago economy crime and migrant update 4pm April 29th 2026 https://youtu.be/hCCU1vc7nWg
Heavy Police presence over here at 17 East Adams a bunch of squads came in hot a whole bunch of foot patrols out here don’t know what happened but I know they sell a lot of drugs over here on Adams about 4:35 p.m. is when I started seeing the squads coming over here April 29th 2026 https://x.com/SubxNews/status/2049681372713722301
Wiped Out Kenzie and state Kenzie and Hubbard 512pm April 29th 2026 https://youtu.be/8cIjpY29FXI
Chicago economy crime and migrant update 613pm April 29th 2026 https://youtu.be/_bMfUGIHVt4
House of Bing 920pm April 29th 2026 https://youtube.com/shorts/gLhZaLjGbfc
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