Chicago

Tears Will Get You Sympathy; Sweat Will Get You Change

February 18, 2026

Remembering Reverend Jesse Jackson: A Personal Reflection Both tears and sweat are salty, but they render a different result.Tears will get you sympathy; sweat will get you change. — Rev. Jesse Jackson Sympathy costs nothing. Change costs everything — time,…

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Warm, Dangerous and Empty a Night of Calls Across Chicago Presidents Day Feb 16 2026

February 17, 2026

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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Chicago Police Mislabel Shooting Location by Dozens of Blocks … Not the First Time The Police Lied

February 16, 2026

SubX.News® Corruption Report A Media Major Incident Notification issued February 15, 2026, lists a person shot in the 1700 block of North Paulina (24th District) at approximately 4:00 p.m. The incident actually occurred in the 7700 block of North, meaning…

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There Is No Plan. Johnson Has Been Lying All Along: Four Homicides, Multiple Car Thefts, Gangs and a 300‑Person High School Brawl

February 12, 2026

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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Empty Downtown, Drug Tents After Dark, and Another Truck Under the Same Bridge

February 11, 2026

Chicago SubX.News® Street Report Tuesday downtown rush hour was missing, like it never showed up at all. Just after 4:20 in the afternoon, Michigan Avenue should have been filling with commuters and after-work foot traffic. Instead the bridge over the…

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Murder Before Work, Stabbing After Work, and City Hall Writing Tickets in Between

February 10, 2026

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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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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