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Juneteenth Chaos, Crime, and Killings … Commentary on a Broken City
Chicago Street Reports | June 19, 2025 While Juneteenth commemorates the enforcement of emancipation by federal troops in 1865, Chicago’s streets on June 19, 2025, told a different story—one of…
Read MoreRain Feeds the Fire of Drugs, Crime, and Murder
CHICAGO — SubXNews Street Reports June 18, 2025 The rain came hard, but the fire was already burning. Across Chicago, storms rolled through while shootings, stabbings, thefts, and open-air drug…
Read MoreThe bridges came down, but the lies stayed up … Chicago Collapses in Real Time: Teens Shot on Sidewalks, Cars Stolen in Front of Cops, Downtown Paralyzed for a Protest That Already Happened
CHICAGO — On June 12, 2025, Chicago descended deeper into dysfunction, as residents across the South and West Sides endured another day of gunfire, brazen theft, and public drug use…
Read MoreHomicide shot six times DOA 71st and Damen inside the CitySmoke Shop on May 23, 2025 at appx 424pm
Preliminary: A 42-year-old male victim, while inside a business establishment, was involved in a verbal altercation with two offenders.The altercation turned physical when a 38-year-old male offender produced a firearm…
Read MoreFrom Streeterville to the CIA: A Nation Rocked by Violence
May 22, 2025, began like any other Thursday in America’s third-largest city. But by sundown, Chicago and the nation were reeling from a cascade of violence, chaos, and loss. From…
Read MoreHiring All Black People — Is That Illegal? DOJ Investigates Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson
The U.S. Department of Justice has launched a formal investigation into the hiring practices of the administration of Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson, after a public speech in which he boasted…
Read Morethe New Machine, Gonna be hard to Beat
Johnson’s political caucus just won another three year term at the Chicago Teachers Union. That means at least 25,000 foot soldiers and a $30 million off the books war chest.…
Read MoreChicago’s Violence Spiral Continues: Fatal Crash and Shootings Leave One Dead, Thirteen Wounded on Friday May 16
CHICAGO, May 16, 2025 — Chicago’s unrelenting wave of violence showed no signs of slowing on Friday, May 16, as the city grappled with a fatal traffic crash and a…
Read MoreChicago’s Rising Murder Rates Post-2010: The Role of the 2016 ACLU Agreement, Ferguson Effect, and 2019 Consent Decree in Policing and Violence
Key Points Research suggests CPD’s policy changes may reduce police misconduct but could limit crime control, with mixed impacts on violence. It seems likely that these policies, like foot pursuit…
Read MoreChicago’s mayor keeps saying the CTA is safe come on and ride it
What do you guys think … When’s the last time you seen him riding in his CTA without a security detail … heck when’s the last time you seen him…
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