Shooting over at 61st and King Drive 23 year old victim ended up at 61st and Eberhart inside the corner store appx 445pm August 20th 2025
Migrants were the first thing spotted. A Mondo stood there — the first one in a long time. They used to hang out and congregate at that spot because they lived at the Inn of Chicago migrant shelter for a few years.
When the city shut it down, they scattered and started gathering in different corners especially convince stores and fast joints.
Just blocks away, State and Grand stood out as a known drug spot. The calls come steady: crack, overdoses, fights. At three in the morning there was a stabbing, another marker on a stretch of downtown where the streets turn bad.
And then the corners — two of the four were empty. That’s 50% vacancy, plain math. In real estate, ten to twenty percent is break-even.
At fifty, the property bleeds out.
Pay a thousand-dollar mortgage and collect a thousand-dollar rent, and you’re already losing money.
A roof goes bad, you pay out of pocket. A flood, you sink.
Half-empty corners don’t survive, and neither does the city around them.
Accountability
Downtown, even the sidewalks tell the story. A woman out every day with small kids, one of them an infant, parked on a corner like props. That isn’t parenting, that’s exploitation.
Shouldn’t those children be at home eating dinner, talking about school? Instead, they’re out here as shields or tools.
And nobody knows if they’re even hers. Could be trafficking, could be worse. Chicago police walk past, and nothing happens.
That’s where the bigger question of accountability kicks in.
Some say lock up the parents, make them pay for what their kids do. But how far does that go — when the child is twenty, thirty, forty, are the parents still to blame?
At some point, responsibility rests with the individual.
Police are licensed by the state, not by the mayor and not by Snelling. Their oath is to the law, not to a politician. Yet on the street, officers hesitate, second-guessing themselves, worried more about keeping their jobs than enforcing the law. Civilian boards and political rules forbid traffic stops, ignore open drug use, and tie hands on proactive policing.
The result is officers operating like parents who fear being punished for their children’s mistakes. Imagine raising kids in a world where, if your 20-year-old or even 40-year-old does something wrong, you’re the one locked up. That’s the twisted logic politicians and activists want applied to policing: blame the officer, not the offender. Accountability is flipped upside down. Instead of responsibility resting with the individual — the person committing the crime — the weight gets dumped onto the cop who dared to intervene.
It’s like telling teachers their students’ failures are criminal offenses, or forcing parents into court every time their teenager acts out. The blame gets shifted until no one is held responsible for their own actions. And that’s exactly what has happened to policing in Chicago.
The question is simple: when someone is being raped or murdered, do you want an officer second-guessing whether they’ll get fired, or do you want them acting decisively to protect life?
Colonizers & Changing History
In today’s classrooms, children are told that colonizers still define their lives — as if America never broke free. But the truth is the opposite: we threw the colonizers out. Americans are the revolutionaries, not the colonized. The United States fought a war to win independence from France, Spain, and Great Britain. That’s the real history. Yet the lesson handed down now flips it on its head, teaching grievance instead of triumph, dependency instead of responsibility.
Statues come down in the name of “justice.” Books get rewritten to match political fashion. Curriculum shifts to identity politics, telling kids that oppression is permanent, that colonizers still control them even centuries after they were expelled. The colonizers are long gone — but the narrative lingers, manufactured to divide and to erase the fact that America was built by throwing them out.
And that’s the danger. Once you show children that truth itself can be changed whenever it’s inconvenient, you’ve taught them something worse than bad history. You’ve taught them that accountability can always be escaped — that if you don’t like the facts, you just rewrite them until they fit your excuse.
Who Made the 12-Year-Old Carjacker
The product of that teaching is obvious on the street. Kids as young as 12 pick up guns or steal cars, not because they were born criminals, but because every layer of the system tells them responsibility doesn’t exist. In the schools, the subjects that build discipline — math, reading, history — get pushed aside for grievance drills.
The lesson isn’t “learn and achieve,” it’s “you were cheated, you’re oppressed, the world owes you.”
That narrative gets reinforced everywhere they turn. In classrooms, child development is blurred with sex ideology and political slogans. Instead of stability, kids are handed confusion. Instead of structure, they’re told identity matters more than effort.
And instead of consequences, they’re told their failures are proof of oppression.
By the time they hit adolescence, the message has landed. At 12 years old, they don’t see school as the path forward. They see the street. They see the car keys left running, the gun tucked in a waistband, the fast cash from a stick-up.
To them, that’s not crime — that’s payback.
The world ripped them off, so taking what they want is just evening the score. That’s how you manufacture a child criminal. That’s how you turn a 12-year-old into a carjacker.
Shooting Scene — 23-Year-Old Victim
The scanner broke in around 4:40 p.m.: a 23-year-old shot on the 6000 block of South King Drive, right in the after-school window when kids were still out. Police later confirmed he was standing near the street when two men approached. One pulled a gun and opened fire, hitting him in the groin and grazing his leg.
Witnesses said store workers rushed in, pressing whatever they could against the bleeding, trying to hold the young man together until help arrived. He was taken to the University of Chicago Hospital and listed in good condition — but good condition in Chicago means alive, not safe.
There were no arrests, just the same refrain: “Area detectives investigating.” That’s the city’s loop now — shots fired, body dropped, kids walking past, neighbors scrambling to save a life while offenders disappear into the blocks of empty buildings.
Abandoned Building — 60th & Prairie
Just a few blocks over at 60th and Prairie, the proof is in the landscape. Boarded-up houses line the street, hollow shells where families once lived. Windows bricked, doors sealed, whole stretches left to rot. This isn’t just blight, it’s abandonment playing out in real time.
In Englewood, a vacant building on Loomis recently collapsed, bricks and timber spilling into the street. No one was inside, but that’s luck, not safety. When property sits neglected long enough, it doesn’t just sit there — it fails, it falls, it kills.
These aren’t rare accidents. They’re the predictable outcome of a system that spends billions on programs and slogans while the foundations of the city — the literal buildings people live in — are left to cave in.
The day runs together: migrants pushed into the streets, cops second-guessing themselves, history rewritten in classrooms, kids turned into carjackers, shootings after school, and blocks lined with boarded-up houses ready to collapse.
Billions are spent, yet the streets stay the same.
Politicians talk equity, justice, investment — but the results are vacancy, violence, and decay.
Empty corners that can’t sustain a market, children bleeding on the sidewalk, buildings folding in on themselves, and families left to wonder where the city went.
At some point, the question is unavoidable: how many lives, how many billions, how many broken streets before someone is held accountable?
References Live Feed Chicago economy crime and migrant update 445pm August 20th 2025 https://www.facebook.com/share/v/19i5AeVDTB/
Overdose at elementary School … 7350 S Evans: a 2-Ambo response for a call of an overdose at Tanner Elementary School. 3 students came to school under the influence of something, they were lethargic, falling asleep. one of the kids went to the hospital w/ one of the staff members from the school, and the other 2 students waited for their parents to show up to the school. Credit spot news 918 a.m. 20 August 25 https://www.facebook.com/share/v/1VYSuZ5Dj4/
460 East 61st Street person shot people in the store trying to stop the bleeding 447pm August 20th 2025 https://www.facebook.com/share/p/1B9HWdcvpS/
Shooting over at 61st and King Drive 23 year old victim ended up at 61st and Eberhart inside the corner store last report he is in critical condition August 20th 2025 first report made about 450pm https://www.facebook.com/share/v/16omtwvKtQ/ Person Shot … 6000 block of S. King, on Aug 20, 2025 at appx 440pm .. a male victim, 23, was near the street when he was approached by two unknown male offenders, one offender produced a handgun and fired shots. The victim was struck in the groin area and a graze wound to the leg. The victim was transported to U of C Hospital initially reported in good condition. There are no offenders in custody, area detectives are investigating (3rd District) Posted: August 20, 2025 5:55 PM Updated: August 20, 2025 5:56 PM
Where is the people responsible for this I’m pretty sure in our $40 billion a year City budget somebody paid to take care of this in this area at 60th and Prairie yet you have a building that looks like it’s about to fall down and nothing’s done about it 600pm August 20th 2025 https://www.facebook.com/share/v/17JQaKNDNL/
Railcar 5226 man with a gun … CTA trains are stopped .. have somebody detained 642pm August 20th 2025 https://www.facebook.com/share/p/16tfxKX2F2/
Halsted Orange Line male female fighting sounds like it’s a domestic inside the station 704pm August 20th 2025 Disregard they left the station https://www.facebook.com/share/p/1CeSdECp6S/
three juvies trying to carjack him 10729 S Edbrooke Ave 754pm August 20th 2025 https://www.facebook.com/share/p/19LVWw1Axk/
