Caption … Discarded cots pile up behind the American Islamic College migrant shelter at Irving Park and Marine Drive, Chicago, 5:44 p.m., July 30, 2025. Taxpayer‑funded waste dumped like trash.
The blood started early.
A 69‑year‑old woman in Little Village was hit in a parking lot on 26th Street at 1:21 in the afternoon. The driver sped away. She was taken to Mt. Sinai with a fractured skull and broken back. Critical. No offender in custody.
Tia left bleeding in the street by some reckless punk without the guts to stop and fix what he broke.
Oswego, 2:00 p.m. — a car plowed straight into a Portillo’s packed with families. Fourteen people were hurt in what can only be called a mass casualty event. Eight rushed to hospitals, six treated on scene.
A two‑year‑old child later died.
Witnesses described overturned tables, blood on the floor, parents screaming for their kids.
Police said the driver, a woman in her fifties, was the only person in the car.
They still called it an accident.
Afternoon Danger
Philadelphia’s Christy Recreation Center turned into a war zone when a fight spilled into gunfire. Two children grazed, a teenager left critical, a staff member injured — seventy‑five kids were still in the pool when the bullets flew.
The commissioner promised justice, but the reality was simpler: even in spaces built for children, the danger doesn’t stop.
Chicago carries the same wound.
At Douglass Park this summer, a lifeguard felt so in danger that he pulled a trigger on two juveniles, killing one and leaving the other in critical condition.
Pools are supposed to be safe. Instead, the line between recreation and violence keeps collapsing.
Chicago unraveled in its usual rhythm of neglect.
A woman lay passed out on the LaSalle Blue Line entrance. Minutes later, masked men with a gun beat and robbed riders at Howard Red Line’s mezzanine.
When a dog defecated in the hallway of an apartment building at the 3245 South Prairie it escalated to a fight with the manager.
Shelter of Corruption
The migrant shelter on Irving was the poster child of waste and corruption. Dealers walked off with government checks while Americans slept in tents outside. Behind the American Islamic College, cots were dumped in piles — the kind that could be cleaned and reused — instead thrown away.
The waste repeated over and over, a picture of how public money gets handled in this city.
In that same lot, license plates told another story — Texas, California, Alabama. Staff cars from all over parked in the middle of Chicago. The Texas plates stood out most. Two years of video shows the same pattern. What looks like staff vehicles starts to feel like racketeering hiding in plain sight.
And did we mention the security guard twenty feet away from the dealers? Standing there, doing nothing. That’s how deep the rot runs.
Waste, corruption, and open dealing — all funded by taxpayers.
The Real Heroes
Not far away, Loyola Beach carried a different scene.
Lifeguards leaned into the wind, eyes on the water, staying on post as waves hit the shore. Their job doesn’t stop. While they grind through that, others sit in cars with the AC running, assigned to soccer matches or concert details.
The real heroes are the lifeguards, the truckers, the Uber drivers — the ones still exposed while crime circles them and the city leaves them hanging.
Night Violence
Downtown, an off‑duty officer fought a suspect at 10 South State outside Target. On the South Side, Felicia’s Alfa Romeo was stolen from a BP station at 5048 S. Cornell, tracked by the phone she left inside.
On the 8100 block of South Cottage Grove, a 36‑year‑old man walking down the sidewalk was shot when an unknown male fired multiple rounds in his direction. He was struck in the right leg and transported to the University of Chicago Medical Center in good condition. No one is in custody.
Gage Park, evening — a 19‑year‑old loading a vehicle on the 3100 block of West 52nd Street was approached by a gunman on foot. Multiple shots fired. He was hit in the back and shoulder before the offender jumped into a black SUV and fled.
Three shell casings marked the crime scene. The victim made it to Christ Hospital in good condition.
No one in custody.
Avondale minutes later — a 32‑year‑old driving south on the 3100 block of North Kimball took a bullet to the head. His Jeep plowed into a yard fence. He was rushed to Illinois Masonic in critical condition as detectives worked the scene.
Buses were rerouted, the street shut for hours, yet no suspects were caught.
Urban Terrorism Defined
One hit locks down a whole corridor, streets closed by crime, whole neighborhoods paralyzed, while law enforcement reacts after the fact.
With no effective prevention, offenders — if caught — skate through the system.
Citizens are left caught in the middle.
Violence becomes routine, danger constant, citizens living inside the crossfire, causing the paralysis of normal everyday activity.
The night dragged on.
Chuck E. Cheese at 50th and Kedzie turned into a melee with thirty people fighting. In the Playpen, a sailboat sparked repeated calls even though it was fine.
Belmont and Kimball stayed taped off for more than three hours after the hit.
No custody.
The comment was blunt: every Democratic city is dangerous because the criminals walk and the politicians blame someone else.
When Factories Shut Down
The crime scene finally cleared in Gage Park. This neighborhood had steady factories and steady jobs.
Central Steel and Wire was the backbone — thousands worked there, families lived off that payroll. The plant was sold to Amazon and now looks abandoned, left to rot behind locked gates.
Graffiti covers the walls, weeds push through the yard, silence replaces the sound of machines.
Industry kept crime down because work demanded a clean and safe environment.
When Central Steel left, a vacuum opened and crime moved in. Shootings, stabbings, and cop killings now define the area.
Brandon Johnson and the anti‑capitalist crowd only deepen the decline by tearing at industry instead of defending it.
The factory gates rusted shut, the yard overrun, just like thousands of other sites around the city.
Every time industry pulls out, crime moves in.
Where the shifts and machines kept order, now it’s shootings, stabbings, and dealers setting the rhythm.
Better Ending than Most
Then of course there was another shooting on South Evans Avenue just before midnight — a 27‑year‑old man was shot in the shin during a domestic dispute. He told police: “the female told the male to shoot him and the male was the shooter.”
For once, someone was actually taken in — rare on a day when shooters walked free.
A tourniquet kept him alive until transport.
That was July 30.
The picture was clear: a city of waste, crime, and neglect, where government excuses are louder than action.
Starting with Tia run down in Little Village, up to Avondale and back down to Gage Park, from the lakefront to the Loop, ending in Chatham, the same picture held: people broken, streets closed, nothing fixed.
Our money stripped away, our safety gone. Played like suckers.
Just like them cots in the dumpster — trash.
References
Chicago Economy, Crime, and Migrant Update — Live Video Feed (30 July 2025) SubXNews https://www.facebook.com/share/v/19aAkkFdPe/
Philadelphia Rec Center Shooting (30 July 2025) FOX29 https://x.com/KeeleyFox29/status/1950673975983702182
Oswego Portillo’s Crash — Mass Casualty Event (30 July 2025) WGN https://www.facebook.com/share/p/1AwVmEKq9Y/
Female Passed Out — LaSalle Blue Line (30 July 2025) SubXNews https://www.facebook.com/share/p/1B1RZxBcB9/
Howard Red Line Robbery — Four Offenders (30 July 2025) SubXNews https://x.com/SubxNews/status/1950679799191523776
Prairie Avenue Fight Over Dog Waste (30 July 2025) SubXNews https://www.facebook.com/share/p/19oHYT1r5G/
Migrant Checks at Irving Park Shelter (30 July 2025) SubXNews https://x.com/SubxNews/status/1950688388635644249
