No End in Sight for Continuous Violence in Chicago’s Black Communities
SubX.News® | Street Report | October 15, 2025
(Chicago) A two-year-old child and a 30-year-old woman were shot Wednesday night in the parking lot of a McDonald’s at 69th and Lafayette in Englewood, another round of violence tearing through Chicago’s South Side.
Initial scanner calls and police communications reports confirmed the child was shot in the foot and the woman struck in the knee.
Six shell casings glittered under floodlights as paramedics rushed both victims to Comer Children’s Hospital and the University of Chicago Medical Center, both listed in good condition.
Moments later, chaos doubled.
A repo man towing a vehicle was chased by another car, passengers screaming “Get him!” as officers drew weapons and cuffed suspects.
Two separate crimes, one parking lot — the same story: no order, no control, no accountability.
When two-year-olds are caught in gunfire, that’s not normal.
Walmart Shooting in Evergreen Park
Earlier in the afternoon, a gunman opened fire inside the Walmart Supercenter at 2500 W. 95th Street in Evergreen Park.
Police said he exited a dark Hyundai Elantra, chased a 23-year-old man into the store, and shot him in the leg, causing severe blood loss before he was taken to Advocate Christ Medical Center.
Outside the entrance, a 70-year-old woman was struck in the foot by a stray bullet and taken in good condition to Little Company of Mary Hospital.
The shooter fled but was arrested minutes later nearby.
Another targeted pursuit turned into another public panic — shoppers diving for cover in a suburban replay of the same breakdown spreading across the region.
Distraction by Design
While bullets flew across Chicago’s South and West Sides, the city’s political class and nonprofit partners focused on a different spectacle — the October 14 federal confrontation on the East Side.
Video showed a 15-year-old boy — not in school — running with a crowd as Border Patrol agents pursued suspects near 105th Street and Avenue N.
The teen threw objects, including eggs, at agents before being tackled, kneed, and zip-tied.
Attorneys hired by his family claimed he was “slammed,” “disappeared for five hours,” and compared the arrest to “authoritarian regimes.”
They described him as a child with a heart condition brutalized by armed men.
But every second of footage showed the opposite — a teenager running, shouting, and confronting federal officers with no visible distress, while skipping school.
Federal officials rejected the lawyers’ version.
The Department of Homeland Security said the boy admitted to hitting an agent in the face with an egg and was released without charges after meeting with his attorney.
“The individual was arrested for the assault and taken to the FBI Field Office in Chicago, where he freely admitted without questioning to throwing eggs at agents,” a Homeland Security spokesperson said.
“His attorney met with him at the field office, and he was released without charges. Secretary [Kristi] Noem’s message to the rioters is clear: you will not stop us or slow us down.”
Yet the same politicians, organizers, and NGOs who never show up for Black children shot in Englewood or Austin rushed to turn this 15-year-old into a political prop — not to help him, but to feed their narrative.
If his mother knew where he was, she failed him. If she didn’t, she failed him twice — letting him skip school to run toward chaos instead of sitting in a classroom.
In Chicago, the outrage is selective: the cameras roll for confrontation, not community.
City of Decay
Elsewhere, laid-off workers protested outside the Virgin Hotel, now under Sports Illustrated Resorts, after being told to reapply for their jobs before the holidays.
On the West Side, police idled in cruisers while dealers worked corners and addicts convulsed in the cold — “dangerous for them, dangerous for us,” the feed warned.
Downtown showed the same exhaustion: boarded-up storefronts, drug zones, and gridlocked expressways turning routine movement into survival.
After midnight, the lens turned to an abandoned Art Deco industrial building at 61st and Wentworth — smooth curves, glass blocks, and potential left to rot.
We had billions for COVID relief, billions for developers and migrants.
Why not a few million to fix this?
A roof patch, a power wash, a purpose — a factory, a shelter, a job center.
Our tax money has been poured into migrant housing, developer subsidies, and pandemic programs, but none of it reached the neighborhoods losing the most children to gunfire.
We have buildings rotting on the South Side that could have been shelters, job centers, or recovery hubs.
Instead, we’re funding displacement and distraction — while Black Americans are shot and killed every day on city streets.
When will it end?
SubX.News® on-the-spot reporting
Photo: Police lights illuminate the McDonald’s parking lot at 69th and Lafayette on Chicago’s South Side after a two-year-old child and a 30-year-old woman were wounded by gunfire (SubX.News® / Oct 15, 2025)
Sources: SubX.News® live video, news, social media, and radio feeds documenting October 15, 2025 events across Chicago in real time.
