Chicago Street Reports SubX.News | June 24, 2025 |
Two intoxicated individuals ignored by police and EMS at CTA Orange Line Roosevelt Station, 5:25 p.m., June 24, 2025. Photo by John Kugler, SubXNews
Chicago Street Reports SubX.News | June 24, 2025 |
Chicago’s downtown and South Side descended once again into unrelenting disorder Tuesday, marked by a full spectrum of urban breakdown—from deadly violence and political lies to tent city neglect and state-enabled theft.
The day started with the discovery of a dead 2-month-old on the South Side and ended with a 15-year-old boy shot in the leg. In between, a child was gunned down near 31st and State, while the mayor’s illegal “Better Chicago” signs stood proudly in neighborhoods marked by addiction, poverty, and municipal abandonment.
Just after 4:30 p.m., violence erupted on the CTA Red Line. A robbery attempt led to gunfire on the platform at 35th Street. A concealed carry holder—Hispanic male—shot a Black male robbery suspect in the leg. The wounded man made his way to Roosevelt and LaSalle before being located by police. Despite a shooting before a White Sox game in the middle of a transit hub, authorities were quick to scrub the scene—an apparent effort to keep the incident out of public view as fans funneled into the area.
Official police reports later described a physical altercation and a graze wound to the buttocks, but scanner traffic revealed what officers on the ground already knew: the shooting started at 35th and the shooter had fled the scene northbound.
While CTA passengers were ducking bullets, Roosevelt Station was also the site of another kind of decay. At the CTA Orange Line, multiple people lay passed out with open alcohol containers in plain view.
A known drug zone, Roosevelt and State became the setting for a massive police and fire presence—not for enforcement, but to quietly remove what looked like an overdose victim from a car.
As officers looked on, others openly drank or collapsed nearby. Nothing was done.
Vagrancy and debauchery is the new norm in Chicago, with half a dozen squad cars and white shirts on site doing absolutely nothing.
Just blocks away at Roosevelt and Wabash, yet another illegal political sign supporting Brandon Johnson was posted on a barricade in a non-construction area. No union bug, no permit, and no concern for the law.
The same thing appeared again later at 29th and State—no construction, just a bright orange campaign sign masking as safety information.
It’s not a coincidence. It’s coordinated city-sanctioned propaganda.
And while residents are being shot or robbed, city resources are used to plant lies.
At 5:47 p.m., the Dollar Tree at 70th and Pulaski was robbed at gunpoint by four masked men. Just a few minutes earlier, the store had called 911 to report armed individuals loitering in the parking lot. CPD never responded.
The criminals knew there would be no preventative response, so they robbed the staff at gunpoint. Calls for help are now effectively just voicemails. Police didn’t come when warned and didn’t show when the crime happened.
The thieves knew it.
The community knows it.
Only City Hall pretends otherwise.
Not far from the looted store, purse snatchings and armed shoplifting sprees took off across the Loop and West Side. Walgreens locations on 95th and Randolph were hit. Ulta on North Avenue had a suspect caught on camera stuffing merchandise.
A knife-wielding woman was reported attacking a worker at the 30 North Michigan Walgreens. No arrests. No fear.
The monthly checks have run out, and people are turning to street theft.
The city’s answer? Silence.
Meanwhile, cooling buses that were rolled out for migrants months ago were nowhere to be found at the Union and Canalport tent city or the Ruble encampment. As temperatures climbed and shelter options failed, longtime Chicagoans were left to swelter in tents while elected officials boasted about equity.
American citizens sleeping outside in extreme heat get nothing while Venezuelans in city-sponsored shelters got air-conditioned buses and catered aid just months earlier.
As dusk approached, beatings and threats escalated into more violence.
A stick fight broke out at Madison and Wells. An adult male beat a nine-year-old at Cermak and Western over stolen items. Lifeguards at 159 East LaSalle were harassed by a man in the water. A pedestrian hit by a car at 71st and Langley threw a bottle at first responders and ran off. A landlord at 2950 N. Mont Clare allegedly threatened to shoot his tenant in a basement confrontation.
This isn’t the exception. It’s the rhythm of daily life now.
The violence did not spare children. Around 9:47 p.m., an eight-year-old girl was shot in the thigh at 31st and State. Her family had been in a verbal altercation with people in a white SUV. That SUV returned, and someone inside opened fire. The girl was rushed to Comer Children’s Hospital. She was listed in fair condition.
Police are still investigating. No one is in custody.
Not long after, a 15-year-old boy was shot in the leg at 3814 W. Grenshaw while simply walking down the street. He was transported to Stroger Hospital in serious condition. Also that night, a 35-year-old man was shot in the head by a trio of gunmen on Stony Island.
More than 16 shell casings littered the pavement.
Earlier that afternoon, a two-month-old infant was found dead in an apartment on the 4100 block of South Maplewood. The city’s official response: “Death investigation.” That’s all.
Chicago’s collapse is no longer theoretical. It’s not about policy models or funding levels. It’s visible on every Red Line platform, in every empty storefront, and at every vigil for children gunned down in crossfire. Residents are left to police their own blocks, dig their own AC units out of dumpsters, and survive under a city leadership that thinks plastering fake construction signs in poor neighborhoods is progress.
The mayor didn’t show up at any of these scenes.
But he did attend the visitation for fallen Officer Krystal Rivera alongside the police superintendent.
That’s good optics. But it’s not leadership.
The city has a $40 billion annual budget. That’s nearly $15,000 per resident.
Yet the sidewalks are full of fentanyl, the buses run empty, and the cops watch people drink themselves into seizures without lifting a finger.
And while children bleed on the pavement, the only thing City Hall wants you to see are campaign slogans zip-tied to barricades.
[Picture Two intoxicated individuals ignored by police and EMS at CTA Orange Line Roosevelt Station, 5:25 p.m., June 24, 2025. Photo by John Kugler, SubXNews]
