Cleared Lots and Open Corners: Money Buys Everything — What Gets Cleaned and What Gets Left

February 20, 2026

Chicago SubX.News® Street Report | Feb 19, 2026 Rush hour rolled in with the usual traffic noise on the radio, but downtown didn’t match it. Blocks through the Loop felt thin, storefronts dark, movement scattered instead of packed. A night…

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No Prevention and No Safety: Dirty Rain, Drug Tents, and a City Running on Scanner Traffic

February 19, 2026

Chicago SubX.News® Street Report | Feb 18, 2026 The afternoon started with something small but strange. After the overnight rain, windshields across the South Side were coated in grime, raising questions about what had fallen out of the sky. Dust…

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Tears Will Get You Sympathy; Sweat Will Get You Change

February 18, 2026

Remembering Reverend Jesse Jackson: A Personal Reflection Both tears and sweat are salty, but they render a different result.Tears will get you sympathy; sweat will get you change. — Rev. Jesse Jackson Sympathy costs nothing. Change costs everything — time,…

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Warm, Dangerous and Empty a Night of Calls Across Chicago Presidents Day Feb 16 2026

February 17, 2026

SubX.News® Street Report Hot air moved through Chicago on Presidents Day, the kind of February warmth that brings people out but doesn’t change what the city is underneath, and the day unfolded like most do — movement, noise, and the…

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🙏 Rev. Jesse Jackson dies at 84

February 17, 2026

February 17, 2026 5:34 AM ETBy Jaclyn Diaz, Cheryl Corley www.npr.org The Rev. Jesse Jackson, an American civil rights leader, minister, and politician, who was a protégé of Martin Luther King Jr. and in the 1980s reshaped Democratic politics with…

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Chicago Police Mislabel Shooting Location by Dozens of Blocks … Not the First Time The Police Lied

February 16, 2026

SubX.News® Corruption Report A Media Major Incident Notification issued February 15, 2026, lists a person shot in the 1700 block of North Paulina (24th District) at approximately 4:00 p.m. The incident actually occurred in the 7700 block of North, meaning…

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If Machines Don’t Follow Directions, How Do We Measure Trust?

February 15, 2026

While reviewing the public record around Alex Jones — including court rulings that found his Sandy Hook claims false and defamatory and judgments exceeding $1B — I ran a simple AI instruction test using Grok. Each time, Grok delivered the…

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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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