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‘Vote “yes” for all of us’: Why Cook County judges run as a ‘class’

October 30, 2026
Chicago Crime

Illegal Migrant Drug Addict Killed after Shooting at Canalport Dope Encampment by Off-Duty FBI Agent in Chicago

Chicago Crime

Chicago Murders Jump 25% in One Week, Sexual Assaults Rise 4%, Vehicle Theft Up 6% as Smash-and-Grab Burglaries Spread Across City Starting the Fall Holiday Season … CPD Crime Report Week 42

Chicago Crime

Numbers Don’t Match … Again … Two Mass Shootings, Five Murders and Seniors Beaten and Stabbed to Death in Chicago Weekend Violence October 16–18, 2026 … Oh, and Church Volunteers Were Shot Too

Obituary

Mike Ditka passed away on October 9, 2026

Chicago Crime

Downtown Chicago Was Open Tuesday Night. Almost Nobody Came Except The Drug Addicts

Chicago Crime

Strange Statistics … Fatal Shootings Up 6.9% … Aggravated Batteries and Multi-Victim Shootings Also Rise in Chicago … Official Percentage Shows Improvement While Homicides Increase

Trauma

Will I Live?

Chicago Politics

Chicago From the Street Looks Different … Crime statistics, political power, independent journalism and why rebuilding Chicago starts on the block

Chicago Crime

Magic … Chicago Crime Numbers Vanish Overnight … City Dashboard Drops Hundreds of Shooting Victims Before They Reappear

Chicago Crime

52% Increase … Fewer Shootings More Victims … Chicago Weekend Gun Violence Surges as CPD Reports 41 Shooting Victims and 3 Murders

Chicago Crime

15 Shot, One Fatally, After Gunfire Erupts During Late-Night Gathering in Washington Park 53rd Cottage Grove Southside Chicago

Gestapo in the Loop: ICE Clashes, CTA Fatality, and CPD’s Elite Escort

October 15, 2025

SubX.News®Street Report | Oct 14, 2025 (Chicago) — Gray clouds hung low over the skyline, trapping the noise of sirens, trains, and arguments in the air. The temperature sat in the mid-60s, but the mood felt colder — a city…

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Chicago’s the City That Won’t Quit: Columbus Day Celebration, Shutdown, and Hopeful Horizons Amid Urban Pulse

October 14, 2025

SubX.News® | Street Report | Oct 13, 2025 (Chicago) — As the partial government shutdown dragged into its thirteenth day, the streets of Chicago carried a strange mix of noise and silence — drums and cheers now gone from the…

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Happy Columbus Day 2025

October 13, 2025

Columbus Day commemorates the landing of Italian-born navigator Christopher Columbus in the New World—i.e., the Americas—on October 12, 1492. It is a federal holiday in the United States, observed on the second Monday in October. The day typically involves parades,…

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4 Teenagers Shot Over Weekend and Most Shootings on South Side of Chicago — 3 Homicides as of 3:00 a.m.

October 13, 2025

SubX.News® | Chicago Crime Report | October 13, 2025 (3am) Preliminary weekend data from Chicago Police Department reports show at least 14 people shot and three killed between Friday afternoon and Sunday night, October 10 – 12, 2025. The shootings…

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Then and Now: The Art of Mockery and Fear

October 12, 2025

The “Great Republican Reform Party” was not an official political party in 1856, but rather a satirical term used in political cartoons to mock the new Republican Party and its presidential candidate, John C. Frémont. The name was meant to highlight and deride the broad, eclectic, and progressive coalition of groups that supported the Republicans in the 1856 election.

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Chicago Burns: Where Wild Rules the Night and Walking Away is Here to Stay

October 11, 2025

(Chicago) SubX.News® | Street Report Oct 10–11, 2025 A City in Gridlock and Uncertainty Late Friday afternoon, Chicago’s arteries locked up under drizzle and construction. I-355 backed up from Army Trail Road to North Avenue; I-80/94 crawled through Northwest Indiana,…

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Machine Guns, Migrant Terror, and Urban Warfare

October 4, 2025

Chicago SubX.News® Street Report Oct 3, 2025 Under 89-degree heat and gridlocked expressways, the city cracked open into scenes of violence across every corner. From a Little Caesars parking lot in Little Village, to a road-rage killing on the South…

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The Migrant Trap House Triangle: How Chicago Media Lied About South Shore, Phillips, and King Drive

October 3, 2025

(Chicago) SubX.News® Investigative Report South Shore: The Latest Lie When ICE agents stormed 7500 S. South Shore Drive on October 1, Block Club Chicago rushed to frame the scene as federal overreach. Their headline painted the picture: “Residents Return to…

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Astroturf Accounts: How Social Media Pages Manipulate Communities

October 3, 2025

Intentions: Who Are They? Part I — Chicago’s X Astroturf Accounts SubXNews Oct 3, 2025 by @drkugler From our earliest Substance News days we’ve been calling this out: accounts that look like harmless community feeds but are really platforms for…

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The City That’s Broke, While Feds Do the Dirty Work

October 2, 2025

(Chicago) SubXNews Street Report | Oct 1, 2025 The day began before dawn with federal helicopters and drones swarming 7500 S. South Shore Drive, where agents arrested 37 people in a raid tied to the Venezuelan Tren de Aragua gang.…

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