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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Robbery … Blowing up Armored Truck on Italian Expressway

February 9, 2026

Lecce-Brindisi Expressway (February 9, 2026) – An armored cash van belonging to the Battistolli Group was targeted in a brutal attack on the 613 expressway near Tuturano.Attackers blocked the road with a burning van and engaged in a firefight with…

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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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Clear Skies, Dropped Signals: Chicago Grinds Through Another Frozen Evening with Cardboard Shelters on Ida B. Wells

January 29, 2026

CTA Fights, Power Shutdowns, and Overdoses Mark a Routine Winter Night in the City SubX.News® Report Jan 28, 2026 Late afternoon found the city tightening up. The cold wasn’t dramatic, it was mechanical — fifteen degrees, sinking fast, the kind…

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Good Cops, Bad Cops: Chicago Crime & Migrant Update Jan 27, 2026

January 28, 2026

SubX.News® Street Report Chicago — Downtown, Navy Pier, South Side, Canalport, 18th & Union Late Tuesday afternoon slid into night. WBBM played in the background as traffic crawled through frozen streets. Market numbers, ads, weather, then hard national news cycled…

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