Duct Tape City: Selective Fixes, Silent Streets, and Open‑Air Drug Markets
Who’s Running this City Anyway: Mass Murder, Bike Lanes and Potholes
SubX.News® Street Report | Jan 23, 2026 Chicago froze solid this weekend, and so did whatever was left of the city’s civic conscience. Temperatures plunged below zero with wind chills pushing toward forty below. The city didn’t slow down—it hollowed…
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SubX.News® Street Report January 22, 2026 Chicago is locking up for one of the coldest stretches of the winter, with wind chills pushing 30 to 40 below zero. This isn’t the kind of cold you ignore. Pipes burst. Cars die.…
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SubX.News® Corruption Report Chicago continues to pay overtime it likely should not, despite more than a decade of warnings, internal acknowledgments, and prior Inspector General advisories. This is not an isolated payroll error. It is a structural failure spanning public…
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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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“Black communities are being locked out while corporate interests consolidate power. Equity cannot mean exclusion dressed up as regulation” – Alderwoman Dr. Monet S. Wilson “In the end, corporate cannabis is going to lose — and crime is going to…
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Read the full transcript of Donald Trump’s speech at Davos U.S. President Donald Trump speaks at the World Economic Forum January 21, 2026 U.S. President Donald Trump spoke at the World Economic Forum in Davos Switzerland, on Wednesday, escalating his…
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SubX.News® Street Report Jan 20, 2026 Chicago did not feel like a major American city on the afternoon of January 20, 2026. As daylight faded, downtown traffic failed to materialize, transit scanners crackled nonstop with CTA disturbances, and sidewalks told…
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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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Intelligence plus character—that is the goal of true education.
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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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