Chicago Corruption

Duct Tape City: Selective Fixes, Silent Streets, and Open‑Air Drug Markets

April 21, 2026

SubX.News® Street Report – April 20, 2026 Chicago’s spring construction season opened with a promise: “wolf pack” crews swarming the city’s worst potholes to deliver rapid, visible repairs. Hours after those assurances went out over local media, the streets told…

Read More

Who’s Running this City Anyway: Mass Murder, Bike Lanes and Potholes

April 18, 2026

SubX.News® Street Report – April 17, 2026 Chicago showed two faces on Friday. In one, the governor walked a safe block in downtown with cameras and handlers. In the other, regular people lived with mass shootings, carjackings, flooded bike lanes,…

Read More

One Day, One System: Beaten, Robbed, and Killed

April 8, 2026

SubX.News® Street Report – April 7, 2026 The city starts the day with the execution of a 16 year old on the Southside, and spends the next twelve hours proving it is not a glitch. Cameras, scanners, and the street…

Read More

Chicago’s Cracks Are Impossible to Ignore

April 7, 2026

SubX.News® Street Report – April 6, 2026 From an empty downtown at rush hour to 12‑inch potholes, drug use outside gleaming nonprofits, and tents in “fancy” neighborhoods, a few hours drive on a Monday evening showed a city whose promises…

Read More

Tax Dollars, Broken Sidewalks, and a City Falling Apart

April 1, 2026

SubX.News® Street Report · March 31, 2026 Downtown Chicago keeps getting sold as the part of the city that’s working. The skyline is supposed to mean strength.The towers are supposed to mean money. The headlines tell people crime is down,…

Read More

Gang Wars and Drownings Don’t Stop Because Someone is a Liar

March 28, 2026

SubX.News® Street Report March 27, 2026 Friday was cool and crispy with the skyline clean against the lake, the kind of early-spring afternoon that makes Chicago look better than it behaves.The soundtrack of the afternoon is a local news station…

Read More

Cardboard, Zombies, and Plugged Bike Lanes: The Failed Promises of Social Justice in Chicago

March 17, 2026

SubX.News® Street Report March 16, 2026 On a brittle late‑winter afternoon in Chicago, the city’s contradictions unfolded block by block, as visible and unyielding as the potholes that scar its streets. Protected bike lanes—touted as emblems of progressive urbanism and…

Read More

Cycle of Selfishness: Painted-Over Signs and New Tents

March 12, 2026

Chicago SubX.News® Street Report | March 11, 2026 Empty CHA buildings, new tent cities under the Dan Ryan, and a day of shootings that exposes what the city has and what it refuses to use. Two Tracks at the Same…

Read More

Loops, Hail and Floods: Rain, Rain, Rain – the Corruption Don’t Wash Away

March 11, 2026

Street Report | March 10, 2026 From late afternoon into the early morning hours, the streets showed what happens when weather, crime, drugs, and failing infrastructure collide. While the radio carried updates about the expanding U.S.–Iran war, rising gas prices,…

Read More

They’re Back !!!! Holidays Are Over and Downtown Streets are Filling Up with Addicts, Vagrants, and Dope Dealers … Again

March 6, 2026

SubX.News® Street Report | March 5, 2026 Thursday afternoon should have marked the start of rush hour in downtown Chicago. Instead, the streets were eerily quiet, and the police scanner was already lighting up. The afternoon drive began at 4:00…

Read More