Duct Tape City: Selective Fixes, Silent Streets, and Open‑Air Drug Markets
Who’s Running this City Anyway: Mass Murder, Bike Lanes and Potholes
Lecce-Brindisi Expressway (February 9, 2026) – An armored cash van belonging to the Battistolli Group was targeted in a brutal attack on the 613 expressway near Tuturano.Attackers blocked the road with a burning van and engaged in a firefight with…
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The day began on the South Side in the early morning hours with two teenagers shot. Police responded at 2:45 a.m. to a call of a person shot in the 2200 block of East 67th Street. Officers found a 16-year-old…
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Chicago SubX.News® Street Report Jan 30, 2026 Snow rolled back into Chicago on Friday, steady and unforgiving. Localized totals hit around six inches in parts of the city, with Northwest Indiana projected to see as much as twelve. Temperatures hovered…
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SubX.News® Jan 29, 2026 Street Report Chicago moved through another compressed stretch of violence from approximately 7:36 p.m. Wednesday to 1:00 a.m. Friday. In just over a day, at least 15 people were victims of violent crime across multiple police…
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SubX.News® Street Report Jan 28, 2026 Think about this. I’m up on a roof. Clear sky. No clouds. Sunset at .Signals dropping anyway. Three phones. Three different internet providers. Still bad coverage. That’s strange.They messing with it from the sky…
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CTA Fights, Power Shutdowns, and Overdoses Mark a Routine Winter Night in the City SubX.News® Report Jan 28, 2026 Late afternoon found the city tightening up. The cold wasn’t dramatic, it was mechanical — fifteen degrees, sinking fast, the kind…
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SubX.News® Street Report Chicago — Downtown, Navy Pier, South Side, Canalport, 18th & Union Late Tuesday afternoon slid into night. WBBM played in the background as traffic crawled through frozen streets. Market numbers, ads, weather, then hard national news cycled…
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Mayor Brandon Johnson didn’t just defend protests against federal immigration enforcement this week — he stepped into open constitutional confrontation, suggesting Chicago should explore charging and prosecuting federal agents for what he described as federal “overreach.” The argument mirrors the…
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SubX.News® Street Report The city locked up early under a hard freeze. Eight degrees at four in the afternoon, sun out but useless, wind cutting through coats and bones. Chicago didn’t shut down. It narrowed. Streets emptied just enough to…
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SubX.News® Terrorism Report Right-wing and white supremacist terrorism has been the most frequent and most lethal category of domestic terrorism in the United States. For years, far-right attacks and plots have outnumbered all other ideological categories, with perpetrators overwhelmingly white.…
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