Chicago Crime

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

October 28, 2026
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

Chicago Teachers Union

Windfall and the Windbags: Teachers Union Proves It Cares More About Greed Than Kids’ Safety

Cook County Employee Lisa Schrantz in charge of Millions of Teachers Union money

January 19, 2023

orginally published to Substance News by John Kugler January 19, 2023 https://www.substancenews.net/articles.php?page=7955&section=Article White Liberal pulling brandons strings no way they would let him hold all those millions … BTW she works with him at the Cook County Board and now…

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Public Indoctrination: Teachers Union Uses Students for Politics

January 16, 2023

In what seems to be a complete disregard for Chicago Public Schools’ rules against using students for personal gain, the Chicago Teachers Union used a CPS student for politics. The Union leadership and Brandon Johnson’s political campaign directly used at…

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Modern-Day Colonization: Chicago Public Schools Caught Lying and Replacing Black students with Migrants in a Closed School

January 2, 2023

We are working on this story to get the background of what happened. Here is what we have so far. The Chicago Public Schools converted a closed African American school into a shelter for migrants, the former Wadsworth Elementary School,…

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35 years later nothing has changed .. Moffat and now Skalinder ... Sexual Predators in Chicago Schools

35 years later nothing has changed … Moffat and now Skalinder … Sexual Predators in Chicago Schools … question is why was a high ranking union official allowed to continue to work with teachers and students … this is an ongoing investigation

December 26, 2022

Past cover up of sex crimes against children in CPS by politicians and government … (1987) James G. Moffat, was a former high school principal and once deputy superintendent of the Chicago Public Schools, the second highest-ranking post in the…

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Jadine Chou, Head of Chicago Public Schools security, has failed to keep students and schools safe … Why does she still have a job?

December 17, 2022

  One of the first people appointed to an executive position at Chicago Public Schools by the new administration under Mayor Rahm Emanuel, Jadine Chou has served as “Chief Officer for Security and Safety” since June 2011. Under Chou’s leadership,…

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Lauren Bianchi, a Chicago Teachers Union official

Daddy Dearest: Union Official Scamming the System

November 14, 2022

Lauren Bianchi, a Chicago Teachers Union official and Environmental activist,uses Dealer Plates and does not have a city sticker working as a Chicago PublicSchools teacher. Multiple Chicago Eastside residents have contacted Substance News regardingwhat seems like a tax dodger and…

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Brandon Johnson Coordinates Kickbacks for CTU Legal Work

September 20, 2022

The Chicago Teachers Union PAC that supports Brandon Johnson’s campaign, received contributions from two law firms currently doing business with the Chicago Teachers Union on the same day. Dowd Bloch and Bennet & Poltrock & Poltrock Brandon Johnson is a…

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teachers union president lying

is stacy playing us ? sure looks like it

September 1, 2022

In a stunning turn of events, Stacy Davis Gates in her first major public speech declares that all the bluster and fighting over the past few years was fake and that the ctu and cps are buddies in a common…

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Déjà vu a “secret plan” to strike two days after the election

May 27, 2022

If you think it’s a conspiracy theory that the Chicago Teachers Union’s work-stoppage this winter was about electioneering, you are not crazy. It happened before. Jinny Sims is a politician and union leader in the British Columbia Teachers’ Federation. She…

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A digital flyer about the sexual harassment

[ Investigative Report ] Chicago Teachers Union Paid and Allowed a Sexual Predator to Work with Female Teachers

May 1, 2022

John Kugler – May 02, 2022 Eric Skalinder a well connected union official continued to be on the payroll of the Chicago Teachers Union and mentor teachers, go into schools and have access to students information and videos despite being…

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