Chicago

Money Over Safety When the City Lies to Its Own Cops

July 22, 2025

Chicago Street Report – July 21, 2025 On a hot Monday evening, the City of Chicago made its priorities clear: tow cars for tourist revenue, lie to police about tow truck availability, and let violence, drugs, and exploitation flourish. At…

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Another day on the CTA

July 21, 2025

White Drug Addict … bet he is from out of town … source

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Ideology Ahead of Public Safety

July 17, 2025

by Eileen Wieneke Mayor Johnson’s rationale for vetoing Superintendent Snelling’s authority to implement Snap Curfews is a complete farce. This has nothing to do with “criminalizing children” and everything to do with protecting them. He and the majority of the…

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Checking Out the Neighborhood: Litter, Leadership, and Local Action

July 14, 2025

Chicago – 11:00 a.m. July 14, 2025 … beer bottles, parks, rabbits, railings, scooters, silos, maintenance, money, carp, egress, paint, progress, homeless, politicians, NGOs, corruption, action, excuses … Monday morning in the neighborhood began warmly, but the closer one looked,…

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Damen silos demolition begins July 14th 2025

July 12, 2025

Chicago – This is a message from the Chicago Department of Buildings to inform you of the beginning of demolition activity at 2900 South Damon Avenue, also known as the Damon Silos site. Demolition begins on Monday, July 14, 2025…

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Blood, Bikes, and BJ: Teens Shot, Milwaukee Shuttered, Mayor Hides

July 10, 2025

Chicago Street Report SubX.News | July 9, 2025 | Chicago’s streets delivered a brutal reckoning Wednesday — a day that began with teenagers bleeding on the Dan Ryan and ended with blood at a dead-end on Wilcox. In between, Milwaukee…

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Chicago’s Dead, Flooded Streets, and Broken Promises

July 9, 2025

Chicago Street Reports SubX.News | July 8 2025 Tuesday in Chicago delivered another day of the same: people shot dead, others dumped at hospitals barely alive, billion-dollar towers overlooking billion-dollar tent camps, open-air drug markets operating in daylight, and flooded…

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Patronage First, Citizens Last: Chicago’s Priorities on Display

July 8, 2025

Chicago Street Reports SubX.News | July 7, 2025 | Monday began solemnly, as the Chicago Police Department marked the anniversary of Officer Thor Odin Soderberg’s death, recalling his Army service and dedication to the force. But as the day unfolded,…

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Chicago’s Falling Apart: Mag Mile’s a Crime Scene, Shelters Are a Mess, and Nobody’s Doing Nothing, Except Asking For a Check

July 2, 2025

Chicago Street Reports – SubX.News | July 1, 2025 Out here on the streets Chicago is a damn mess. The Magnificent Mile? More like a crime-ridden ghost town. Dodging vagrants, drug dealers, and plywood-covered stores while the city pretends everything’s…

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Six Voices, One Collapse: How the City of Chicago Lost $29 Billion and Still Called It “Manageable”

July 1, 2025

The City of Chicago released its 2024 Annual Comprehensive Financial Report (ACFR) on June 30 with the same political strategy it always deploys: soften the blow, blame external forces, and quietly hope nobody reads past the headline. WTTW obliged. “Chicago…

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