Chicago Corruption

Chicago’s Unhoused Crisis: New Tents, No Plan

October 21, 2025

SubX.News® Street Report | October 20, 2025 Chicago’s streets told the truth Monday afternoon — the city’s “plan” for the homeless and addicted isn’t a plan at all. It’s containment while crony corruption continues in City Hall. Downtown, City Hall…

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Mayor Brandon Johnson Refuses to Fire Corrupt Lawbreaking Advisor Jason Lee After Inspector General Orders Termination

October 16, 2025

SubX.News® Corruption Report Chicago’s own Inspector General says Mayor Brandon Johnson ignored a direct order to fire his senior adviser, Jason Lee, after Lee refused to cooperate with an official corruption investigation — and that Johnson’s office refused to issue…

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Monsters, Villians and Boats: the City Put on a Show at City Hall, but the Streets Told Another Story

September 26, 2025

Chicago SubXNews Street Report Sept 25, 2025 The morning began with violence. Around 5 a.m. in Washington Heights, two teenagers were shot near 101st and Aberdeen. A 16-year-old was found in a stolen Nissan with a gunshot wound to the…

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Paid Applause, Empty Democracy

September 25, 2025

Chicago City Council Meeting – September 25, 2025 Chicago, IL – The truth of City Hall leaked out in a single memo: staffers, not citizens, were ordered to fill the first two rows of today’s City Council meeting. Six seats…

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Defund the Police in Real Time: Collapse of Law Enforcement … Adams & Woods … Shows the Cost of No Control

September 23, 2025

(Chicago SubXNews) Scanner traffic out of the Near West Side last night was raw, profane, and telling. A TMA — a traffic management aide, not a sworn officer — came over the air at Adams and Woods with a plea…

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Less than a week before a crash-and-grab burglary crew killed an innocent man on the Magnificent Mile last Thursday, one of the men now charged with that murder donned a “peacekeeper” uniform and posed for a one-on-one picture with Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker.

Wanted in 4 States, Smiling with Pritzker — Days Before Killing a Man

September 18, 2025

Days before fatal Mag Mile crash-and-grab, accused man posed with governor at ‘peacekeeper’ event — while wanted in 4 states He posed with the governor as a “peacekeeper” while wanted by authorities in 4 states. Days later, prosecutors say, he…

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Chicago’s Vanishing Act: Billions Spent, Nothing to Show

September 3, 2025

SubX.News Street Report | September 2, 2025 Back to the regular grind after a bloody Labor Day weekend. Chicago doesn’t reset. It just lurches forward into more of the same — gridlock, grim streets, and an emptiness you can feel…

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Played Like Suckers: Our Money, Their Power — Nothing for the People

July 30, 2025

Street Report SubX.News | July 30, 2025 | The blood started early. A 69‑year‑old woman in Little Village was hit in a parking lot on 26th Street at 1:21 in the afternoon. The driver sped away. She was taken to…

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‘This Is As Bad As It Gets’: MWRD’s Deep Tunnel Is a Deep Disgrace — Resumes Heavy on Identity and Light on Infrastructure

July 26, 2025

Chicago – The rain didn’t fail the South Side on July 25, 2025 — the system did. Again. South side of Chicago flooding. Midway Airport are: I’ve lived in this area 90% of my life and this is as bad…

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Rot on the Rails: CTA’s Criminal Collapse and the Migrant Housing Scam

July 25, 2025

SubXNews Street Report July 24, 2025 The rain didn’t break Chicago — the system did. What began with a storm warning spiraled into a full display of decay: collapsing infrastructure, street-level drug markets, violence on all sides of town, and…

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