‘This Is As Bad As It Gets’: MWRD’s Deep Tunnel Is a Deep Disgrace — Resumes Heavy on Identity and Light on Infrastructure

July 26, 2025

Chicago – The rain didn’t fail the South Side on July 25, 2025 — the system did. Again. South side of Chicago flooding. Midway Airport are: I’ve lived in this area 90% of my life and this is as bad…

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Even the Rich Folks Are Saying We Are Broke and Closed

July 26, 2025

SubXNews Street Reports from July 25, 2025 The mattress store is gone. The bank is gone. The people are gone. And yet the police are still everywhere—guarding shuttered corridors, breaking up gang funerals, detaining parolees they can’t process. [Photo: Mattress…

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Rot on the Rails: CTA’s Criminal Collapse and the Migrant Housing Scam

July 25, 2025

SubXNews Street Report July 24, 2025 The rain didn’t break Chicago — the system did. What began with a storm warning spiraled into a full display of decay: collapsing infrastructure, street-level drug markets, violence on all sides of town, and…

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Chicago’s Urban Meltdown: Cops Watch, Kids Bake, While Migrant Mother Walks Away

July 24, 2025

SubX.News Street Reports The scorching heat of July 23, 2025—with temperatures soaring to 95 degrees—became a crucible that exposed Chicago’s deepening systemic failures across every level of urban life. Child Endangerment and Institutional Neglect The most alarming incident of the…

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City of Impotency: One Man Takes Over a Federal Building and Shuts Down Chicago While Mayor Signs Executive Order to Talk to Criminals About Rules They Are Breaking

July 23, 2025

Chicago’s impotence was on full display today as a single man took over a federal building with a knife, holding downtown hostage for nearly nine hours, while Mayor Brandon Johnson signed an executive order to deploy teams of social workers…

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The Government Misled Us — The SAFE-T Act Didn’t Fully Tie the Judge’s Hands

July 22, 2025

Federal agents in Chicago arrest Jose Luis Mendoza-Gonzalez on July 19, 2025. (Department of Homeland Security) The government and media got it wrong. When a woman’s body was found bleached and stuffed in a trash can, the man accused of…

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Money Over Safety When the City Lies to Its Own Cops

July 22, 2025

Chicago Street Report – July 21, 2025 On a hot Monday evening, the City of Chicago made its priorities clear: tow cars for tourist revenue, lie to police about tow truck availability, and let violence, drugs, and exploitation flourish. At…

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Another day on the CTA

July 21, 2025

White Drug Addict … bet he is from out of town … source

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133% Spike in Homicides Compared to 2024: Chicago Sees 34 Victims, 7 Killed — including a Baby Drowned in Lake Michigan and Not One Shooting Suspect in Custody

July 21, 2025

Chicago – Scene After the Shooting … A man scrubs blood off the sidewalk after the 82nd and Houston mass shooting — Saturday, July 19, 2025. Photo by John Kugler SubX.News In one of the bloodiest weekends of the year,…

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Wet Wood Fire Hopkins Park

July 20, 2025

out in the country Sunday and starting a fire with wet wood https://twitter.com/SubxNews/status/1947096896503230831/video/1

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