Duct Tape City: Selective Fixes, Silent Streets, and Open‑Air Drug Markets
Who’s Running this City Anyway: Mass Murder, Bike Lanes and Potholes
(Chicago) SubXNews Street Report | Sept 29, 2025 From snarled tollways to blood-stained sidewalks, September 29 exposed the contradictions of life in Chicago. Federal agents patrolled downtown with rifles, politicians postured over immigration optics, and yet Black children and young…
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Chicago SubXNews Street Report Sept 25, 2025 The morning began with violence. Around 5 a.m. in Washington Heights, two teenagers were shot near 101st and Aberdeen. A 16-year-old was found in a stolen Nissan with a gunshot wound to the…
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Chicago City Council Meeting – September 25, 2025 Chicago, IL – The truth of City Hall leaked out in a single memo: staffers, not citizens, were ordered to fill the first two rows of today’s City Council meeting. Six seats…
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Chicago SubXNews Street Report September 24, 2025 The day moved like a siren. National shocks bled into local streets, then back again — a loop of institutions failing in different keys. By rush hour you could feel it in the…
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(Chicago) SubXNews Street Report Sept 23 2025 From a shovel-swinging maniac at dawn, to a woman stabbed in the heart of the Loop, to a teenager shot over a juice bottle at night — it was 24 hours of collapse…
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(Chicago SubXNews) Scanner traffic out of the Near West Side last night was raw, profane, and telling. A TMA — a traffic management aide, not a sworn officer — came over the air at Adams and Woods with a plea…
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(Chicago) SubXNews Weekend Crime Reality Check – September 19–22, 2025 Chicago logged 27 people shot, 4 of them killed over the Sept 19–21 weekend. That includes the West Loop homicide at Halsted, the 8-year-old girl shot in Auburn Gresham, and…
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(Chicago) SubXNews Street Report | Sept 18, 2025 Thought it was Friday all day. Even said “happy Friday” in the morning. Turned out it was Thursday, so the plan was to take it easy — stick with the radio calls…
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Days before fatal Mag Mile crash-and-grab, accused man posed with governor at ‘peacekeeper’ event — while wanted in 4 states He posed with the governor as a “peacekeeper” while wanted by authorities in 4 states. Days later, prosecutors say, he…
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(Chicago) SubXNews Street Report | Sept 17, 2025 Sad news came in as the mother and two children pulled from Lake Michigan over the weekend were identified. Authorities confirmed 31-year-old Drake Patton, her one-year-old daughter Jream Washington, and six-year-old son…
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