Chicago

Black History Month Starts Bloody in Chicago — Four Dead, Seven Wounded, Men, Women, Kids, Even a Baby in the Back Seat

February 4, 2026

The day began on the South Side in the early morning hours with two teenagers shot. Police responded at 2:45 a.m. to a call of a person shot in the 2200 block of East 67th Street. Officers found a 16-year-old…

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Going, Going, Gone — Snow, Crime, Pork Chops, and a Sprinkling of Vacant Businesses

January 31, 2026

Chicago SubX.News® Street Report Jan 30, 2026 Snow rolled back into Chicago on Friday, steady and unforgiving. Localized totals hit around six inches in parts of the city, with Northwest Indiana projected to see as much as twelve. Temperatures hovered…

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15 Violent Crime Victims in Just Over a Day, Including a 71-Year-Old Woman Shot and a Police Station Parking Lot Shooting

January 30, 2026

SubX.News® Jan 29, 2026 Street Report Chicago moved through another compressed stretch of violence from approximately 7:36 p.m. Wednesday to 1:00 a.m. Friday. In just over a day, at least 15 people were victims of violent crime across multiple police…

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Americanism: When Are We Gonna Start Fixing Shit?

January 29, 2026

SubX.News® Street Report Jan 28, 2026 Think about this. I’m up on a roof. Clear sky. No clouds. Sunset at .Signals dropping anyway. Three phones. Three different internet providers. Still bad coverage. That’s strange.They messing with it from the sky…

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Clear Skies, Dropped Signals: Chicago Grinds Through Another Frozen Evening with Cardboard Shelters on Ida B. Wells

January 29, 2026

CTA Fights, Power Shutdowns, and Overdoses Mark a Routine Winter Night in the City SubX.News® Report Jan 28, 2026 Late afternoon found the city tightening up. The cold wasn’t dramatic, it was mechanical — fifteen degrees, sinking fast, the kind…

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Good Cops, Bad Cops: Chicago Crime & Migrant Update Jan 27, 2026

January 28, 2026

SubX.News® Street Report Chicago — Downtown, Navy Pier, South Side, Canalport, 18th & Union Late Tuesday afternoon slid into night. WBBM played in the background as traffic crawled through frozen streets. Market numbers, ads, weather, then hard national news cycled…

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Chicago Mayor Wants To Obstruct Federal ‘Overreach’ — Same Argument the Confederacy Made

January 27, 2026

Mayor Brandon Johnson didn’t just defend protests against federal immigration enforcement this week — he stepped into open constitutional confrontation, suggesting Chicago should explore charging and prosecuting federal agents for what he described as federal “overreach.” The argument mirrors the…

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Cold Blood … Chicago Economy, Crime, and Migrant Update 4pm January 26, 2026

January 27, 2026

SubX.News® Street Report The city locked up early under a hard freeze. Eight degrees at four in the afternoon, sun out but useless, wind cutting through coats and bones. Chicago didn’t shut down. It narrowed. Streets emptied just enough to…

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Cold Blooded Chicago: Killings, Police Shootings, Closed Buildings, and the NGO Economy

January 24, 2026

SubX.News® Street Report | Jan 23, 2026 Chicago froze solid this weekend, and so did whatever was left of the city’s civic conscience. Temperatures plunged below zero with wind chills pushing toward forty below. The city didn’t slow down—it hollowed…

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Chicago in a Deep Freeze: Cold Air, Hot Politics, and a City Left to Figure It Out

January 23, 2026

SubX.News® Street Report January 22, 2026 Chicago is locking up for one of the coldest stretches of the winter, with wind chills pushing 30 to 40 below zero. This isn’t the kind of cold you ignore. Pipes burst. Cars die.…

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