Chicago Crime
Chicago SubX.News® Street Report | Feb 18, 2026 The afternoon started with something small but strange. After the overnight rain, windshields across the South Side were coated in grime, raising questions about what had fallen out of the sky. Dust…
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SubX.News® Street Report Hot air moved through Chicago on Presidents Day, the kind of February warmth that brings people out but doesn’t change what the city is underneath, and the day unfolded like most do — movement, noise, and the…
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SubX.News® Street Report Chicago bled before sunrise on February 11, 2026. Carjacking turned deadly in Boystown with second body found near hijacked vehicle on miles away on the South Side. Just before 4 a.m. in Lake View—700 block of West…
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Chicago SubX.News® Street Report Monday never really got started before the West Side was already taped off. Just after 8:30 in the morning, scanner traffic sent squads from the 15th and 11th Districts toward 4815 West Lake. A man had…
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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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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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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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SubX.News® Street Report Jan 21, 2026 Chicago is killing more than one person a day, and the month ain’t done yet. Twenty-five homicides were already on the books, with 83 people shot citywide, according to HeyJackass.com data. Figures reflect the…
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SubX.News® Street Report On January 19, 2026, as a brutal Arctic blast tightened its grip on the Midwest, Chicago became the stage for a stark collision of ceremony, crisis, and civic failure. Reporting firsthand throughout the day, the divide between…
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Chicago didn’t suddenly discover smoke on the ‘L’. It discovered it could no longer pretend it wasn’t there. After years of rider complaints and visible disorder, the Chicago Transit Authority put the problem in writing. In a January 14, 2026…
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