Chicago Street Reports | SubX.News | July 10, 2025
Picture … Wons Auto Werks overhead door at 1661 N. Milwaukee in Bucktown — blocked by concrete bike lanes, leaving the business cut off from the street. Residents have compared such city designs to political retribution against small businesses. 1116 p.m. July 10th 2025 1661 North Milwaukee Bucktown by John Kugler SubXnews
Thursday laid bare the stark reality of Chicago’s open market chaos: drug dealers operating with impunity, addicts collapsing in public, and criminals moving unhindered through the CTA, while legitimate businesses are barricaded, boarded, and blocked by politically motivated bike lanes.
Morning Mayhem: Grand & McClurg to Lake Shore Drive
The day began at Grand & McClurg, where a man threw objects at Yolk employees, harassing staff and disrupting business. Hours later, the CTA Red Line at 35th was shut down after a gun detection system flagged a man with a gold-colored handgun. Police swarmed, but this now-familiar theater failed to address the ongoing lawlessness on trains and platforms.
A working fire broke out inside a closet at 2014 N. Clifton. A car collided with a motorcycle at Western & Pershing, one of the city’s most dangerous intersections. Traffic snarled along Lake Shore Drive near the museum campus despite no serious damage at the scene.
On I-294 near 95th, police chased a stolen white Honda Accord before giving up. Northbound Columbus at Illinois became blocked during rush hour by a CTA bus that continued operating as a rolling urban flow disruption.
Downtown Drug Dealing, Dystopia and Corruption
Heading into the downtown core, the open market came into full view. Drug dealers worked the sidewalks in front of businesses, standing right outside doorways, scanning for commuters and tourists. They operated openly in daylight, trading product in plain sight as pedestrians hurried by.
A man screamed incoherently outside the Cultural Center on Randolph, in the heart of the downtown tourist area a block from Millennium Park and the Bean. He staggered, shouted, and collapsed, then jumped up yelling — a vivid display of downtown despondency.
Another example of the city’s dysfunction surfaced at LaSalle and Polk.
Illegal political signs — crudely printed, intentionally ragged, and plastered on public property — bore the name of a company called TSI, along with the phone number 630-497-3478. These poorly made posters, looked designed to provoke rather than persuade.
Their presence raised more questions about who ordered them, what political purpose they served, and why violations of city codes are tolerated so openly in Chicago’s streets.
Further south, the South Loop’s “The 78” project raises significant community displacement concerns. This $7 billion development — featuring a proposed Chicago Fire stadium and exclusive soccer practice area — is being built on public land transferred to private developers, supported by up to $700 million in tax-increment financing (TIF) subsidies.
As Belt Magazine highlights, the project moved forward with little resident input, displacing working people, minorities, and the poor to make way for a curated influx of affluent residents.
The pattern echoes the Robert Taylor Homes, where the XS Tennis Village, a state-of-the-art facility, now occupies former public housing land. Plans by owner Kamau Murray to build 39 two-flats and townhomes for tennis employees on this site — still awaiting federal approval — have sparked resistance from housing activists, who vow to fight for the return of displaced residents.
Plywood and Violence
Commuters at Grand & Halsted found a doped-up vagrant planted in front of a storefront, harassing everyone who passed, demanding money, and blocking the door during the evening rush.
North on the Chicago River near New City the former Cabrini Green Projects , the plywood boarded-up storefronts were hard to miss.
Even the high-end canoe shop couldn’t make it — a “plywood special,” bankrupt and empty despite millions invested to cater to the elite.
Nearby, Uncle Julio’s — another prime-location restaurant — sat shuttered, a casualty of what some residents called economic terrorism and gentrification.
The plywood and closed storefronts continued up the corridor, remnants of failed businesses and disinvestment in what was once a thriving retail area.
In other parts of the city, a 17-year-old girl was shot in the thigh while sitting in her home at 7643 S. Lowe after a bullet passed through her window. Teens were spotted riding a rental scooter down the Kennedy Expressway shoulder. A silent alarm tripped on a bus at 2404 W. Chicago. A white tow truck driver fired two shots while driving on I-94 near 55th.
Riverdale police pursued a Dodge Charger that crashed near 142nd & Paxton. Gunfire erupted at 5422 S. Kilbourn.
The CTA saw continued violence: a woman harassed on the Green Line at Roosevelt, a man collapsed at the Howard station needing EMS, another exposed himself at Randolph.
Sluggers bar on Clark was hit with a strong-arm robbery by three suspects, followed minutes later by three more suspects breaking into an abandoned parking lot at 327 S. Plymouth — most likely Venezuelan drug addicts, given the location directly across from the former Standard Club migrant shelter and their continued drug dealing in the area.
Drugs First, Businesses Last
On Milwaukee Avenue in Bucktown, the city’s war on businesses became evident when bike lanes and concrete curb barriers blocked the overhead door of an auto shop at 1661 N. Milwaukee.
Residents compared these city actions to political retribution in authoritarian regimes — deliberate, vindictive, and economically destructive.
The night ended at Central & Lake, where the wasteland was undeniable. A man lay draped over a railing, motionless; others shot up drugs in the rain, stumbling through the darkness, using the nearby park as an open-air drug den, clogging sidewalks and park facilities with no city services in sight.
Here, the streets belonged to the dealers, the users, and the predators — while businesses were left to die behind barricades and empty slogans.
Chicago appears to prefer illegal activity over protecting and growing law-abiding, tax-paying businesses — rewarding dealers, vandals, and vagrants while choking out those who play by the rules.
This is Chicago now: a city where drug markets thrive, criminals ride the trains, addicts harass and intimidate, and legitimate business is throttled by design.
The Infantile Sickness of the Left is Destroying what COVID didn’t.
Reference Log
Streeterville Morning Attack … Man Throwing Items at Yolk Employees 9:44:15 AM … Grand & McClurg #Chicago Police have received a report of a man throwing items at employees at Yolk Video Credit @CitizenApp https://x.com/SubxNews/status/1943400409164583096
35th red line ZeroEyes gun detection calling saying someone has a gold colored handgun 1:30 PM · Jul 10, 2025 @ScannerChi https://x.com/ScannerChi/status/1943377251464044853
CTA Shut Down Again for Violence … Report of Man With Handgun on Red Line Platform 35th Street Video Credit @CitizenApp 1:26:08 PM https://x.com/SubxNews/status/1943399477680681129
Working fire 2014 N Clifton Fire in a closet. #CFD battalion 12 requested a working fire response as a precaution. Some pics from the scene 1:40 PM · Jul 10, 2025 @WindyCityWxMan https://x.com/WindyCityWxMan/status/1943379858106556592
Car vs Motorcycle … Western and Pershing … that is one of the most danderous intersections in Chicago … July 10 2025 2:38 PM · Jul 10, 2025 Video Credit Citizen https://x.com/SubxNews/status/1943394510249378230
Accident on Lakeshore Drive by the museum campus and heavy traffic 3:37 p.m. July 10th 2025 Don’t know but the problem is don’t look too serious to be blocking all this traffic Video Report https://www.facebook.com/share/v/1C4anwMyBC/
Countryside pd is in pursuit of a stolen white Honda accord i-294 southbound approaching 95th st. Lost sight of it, terminating pursuit 3:50 PM · Jul 10, 2025 @Ace_chicago https://x.com/Ace_chicago/status/1943412468673347636
Blocked Dysfunction … Just look at the behavior CTA they allow crime and criminals on their trains and buses there’s murders homicides and rapes and half the time they’re blocking the main arteries during rush hour 4:00pm northbound Columbus at Illinois July 10th 2025 Video Report https://www.facebook.com/share/v/1B3fWD5K5F/
Downtown Chicago Drug Dealing … right on in public … anytime any place … always in front of places that are convenient for people that have money looking for victims about 4:05 p.m. July 10th 2025 video report https://www.facebook.com/share/v/1697LqWySv/
Bullet through Window … Female (17) shot in the R thigh, 7643 S Lowe the victim was sitting in the back room when a bullet came through the window or went through the house and then struck her. a PO applied a tourniquet to the victim at 1537 hours. Credit @SPOTNEWSonIG 417 p.m. 10 July 25 https://x.com/SPOTNEWSonIG/status/1943408912687890932
Live Facebook Broadcast (2:30:39) Chicago economy crime and migrant update 5:00 p.m. July 10th 2025 https://www.facebook.com/share/v/1MQwgzGYnQ/
Downtown despondency right in front of the cultural center here on Randolph at 5:33 p.m. July 10th 2025 5:35 PM · Jul 10, 2025 Video Report SubXNews https://x.com/SubxNews/status/1943438910484549833
IDOT just spotted two teens on a rental scooter (lime scooter?) on the Kennedy i-90 southbound passing Ohio st riding the shoulder 6:10 PM · Jul 10, 2025 @Ace_chicago https://x.com/Ace_chicago/status/1943447641947361770
Silent bus alarm 2404 West Chicago bus 1789 6:48 PM · Jul 10, 2025 https://x.com/SubxNews/status/1943457283079573894
Something going on at the smoke out over here in Fulton Market District heard a radio call but I got cut off also seen a squad with lights on going in there 7:02 PM · Jul 10, 2025 https://x.com/SubxNews/status/1943460934233506227
Doped up vagrants harassing every person that walks past … stands in front of the door and messes with everybody that walks past asking for money 7:00 p.m. July 10th 2025 Grand and Halsted 7:04 PM · Jul 10, 2025 Video Report SubXNews https://x.com/SubxNews/status/1943461449537614096
New City Scam …. More public land given to private people this is the old Cabrini Green rebranded as new city … who made all this money here and did we get paid enough for this prime land I wonder 7:10 p.m. July 10th 2025 7:16 PM · Jul 10, 2025 https://x.com/SubxNews/status/1943464282924159471
i94 S/B 95th White tow truck fired 2 shots ISP just corrected the location to i94 S/B 55th 7:36 PM · Jul 10, 2025 @ScannerChi https://x.com/ScannerChi/status/1943469473329037417
Report of a shots fired UUW i-94 southbound near 55th white tow truck driver reportedly fired 2 shots out the window driver last seen southbound driving on the shoulder 7:38 PM · Jul 10, 2025 @Ace_chicago https://x.com/Ace_chicago/status/1943469874166272284
Riverdale pd was in pursuit of a dodge charger that crashed in the area of 142nd and Paxton. Male unknown race white shirt grey shorts black shoes last seen northbound from a storage lot. 8:39 PM · Jul 10, 2025 from Calumet City, IL @Ace_chicago https://x.com/Ace_chicago/status/1943485259187634180
5422 S Kilbourn multiple shots fired but its coming in as a person shot for some reason 11:02 PM · Jul 10, 2025 @ScannerChi https://x.com/ScannerChi/status/1943521237562511799
Progressive Bike Terrorism … i have no words to describe what you’re about to see in this video this is the most absurd thing I’ve seen in a long time in Chicago and I’ve been around here for a while this is what the bike lane people have done to businesses throughout our city 1116 p.m. July 10th 2025 1661 North Milwaukee Bucktown @SubxNews Video Report https://x.com/SubxNews/status/1943528944885543189
Milwaukee Ave. Not even in communist China would a government be this stupidly or vindictively 11:48 PM · Jul 10, 2025 @arcitejack https://x.com/arcitejack/status/1943532935962849653
CTA Green Line Roosevelt black male tries to keep touching a female on the train 11:50 PM · Jul 10, 2025 @SubxNews https://x.com/SubxNews/status/1943533290729652249
redline Howard unable to walk needs EMS #ChicagoScanner 11:51 PM · Jul 10, 2025 @SubxNews https://x.com/SubxNews/status/1943533627087679884
strong arm robbery sluggers on Clark three black males stole his phone and his IDs southbound and then eastbound 11:53 PM · Jul 10, 2025 @SubxNews https://x.com/SubxNews/status/1943534107033530605
two male Hispanics and a male white Hispanic breaking into the abandoned parking lot on 327 South Plymouth sounds like Mondos 12:03 AM · Jul 11, 2025 @SubxNews https://x.com/SubxNews/status/1943536653861027980
Randolph Red Line man pleasuring himself he’s wearing an orange shirt and gray pants 12:07 AM · Jul 11, 2025 https://www.facebook.com/share/p/1AxH27ZbiD/
Wet zombies Central and Lake 12:30 a.m. July 11th 2025 @SubxNews Video Report https://x.com/SubxNews/status/1943588952784404771
Chicago To Upgrade All Protected Bike Lanes to Concrete by End of 2023 Incorporating concrete curb will be the standard for new protected bike lanes in Chicago and by the end of this year, CDOT’s target is for 70 percent of all protected bike lanes to include curb separation. June 29, 2022 https://www.chicago.gov/city/en/depts/cdot/provdrs/bike/news/2022/june/chicago-to-upgrade-all-protected-bike-lanes-to-concrete-by-end-o.html
Open Air Migrant Drug Market downtown Chicago … Plymouth and Van Buren appx 5:40 p.m. April 24th 2024 https://x.com/SubxNews/status/1783268906800423198
Open Air Drug Market Downtown Chicago … 655 pm Plymouth and Van Buren … dealing and doing drugs in the open with no worries of being arrested Nov 1, 2024 https://x.com/SubxNews/status/1852500768609149293
Open air drug market Plymouth and Van Buren 5:01 p.m. November 8th 2024 https://x.com/SubxNews/status/1855023992278835547
Luis Acosta, a 23-year-old migrant who now lives on the South Side, was arrested on November 1 across the street from his former home at the Standard Club shelter, 320 South Plymouth, in the Loop. Chicago police officers said they watched him conduct hand-to-hand transactions for “loose items” he grabbed from a baggie inside Pritzker Park, 20 West Van Buren November 15, 2023 12:43 AM https://cwbchicago.com/2023/11/chicago-venezuelan-migrant-arrest-magnificent-mile-shoplifting.html
RIP, Rezkoville. Hello, the 78. Related Midwest has big plans for Chicago’s strangest non-place, in the shadow of downtown. May 15, 2018, 11:27 am https://www.chicagomag.com/real-estate/may-2018/rip-rezkoville-hello-the/
The Last Days of Rezkoville’s Purgatory In Chicago, a long-empty swath of land south of the Loop is the latest site of a planned mega-development March 29, 2019 https://beltmag.com/chicago-rezkoville-development-78-related/
The surprising backstory behind the South Loop’s 78 project Like Forrest Gump’s proverbial box of chocolates, you never know what you’re gonna get when you try to pull off a mega real estate development deal in downtown Chicago January 11, 2019 https://www.chicagobusiness.com/greg-hinz-politics/surprising-backstory-behind-south-loops-78-project
Former Obama fundraiser Rezko gets 10-year sentence November 22, 2011 https://www.reuters.com/article/world/former-obama-fundraiser-rezko-gets-10-year-sentence-idUSTRE7AL230/
The XS Tennis Village, a state-of-the-art tennis facility, is located on the former site of the Robert Taylor Homes public housing project in Chicago March 3, 2018 https://cclfchicago.org/project/xs-tennis/
As CHA Moves To Sell Public Housing Land To XS Tennis Owner, Activists Vow To Fight For Residents To Return Kamau Murray’s plan to build 39 two-flats and townhomes for tennis employees on the former Robert Taylor Homes awaits federal approval. Housing activists say they won’t let it happen. May 17, 2023 https://blockclubchicago.org/2023/05/17/as-cha-moves-to-sell-public-housing-land-to-xs-tennis-owner-activists-vow-to-fight-for-residents-to-return/
Who’s Winning ? Another School shooting, car crashes, and tennis at the Taylor homes … Chicago Economy, Crime, and Migrant Update May 7, 2025 https://x.com/SubxNews/status/1920585310846456263
The Infantile Sickness of the Left is Destroying What COVID Didn’t — phrase echoes Lenin’s Left-Wing Communism: An Infantile Disorder (1920), repurposed here to describe Chicago’s ideologically rigid, impractical policies that finished the destruction COVID began. Full text: https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1920/lwc/index.htm
Picture Auto Shop Business overhead door entry block by bike lane when city redesigned street to be bike friendly 1116 p.m. July 10th 2025 1661 North Milwaukee Bucktown by John Kugler SubXnews
