CHOOSE YOUR OWN ADVENTURE / 03

The Empty Lot
Field Guide

Chicago, 1997. One last Saturday before the bulldozers.

Explore what everyone calls an empty lot, collect what matters, and choose what your neighborhood does with the truth.

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SATURDAY / 10:12 AMSCENE 01 / 07 · ENDINGS 0/4
Three children with bicycles beside a chain-link fence and a construction sign at a vacant neighborhood lot.

THE EMPTY LOT FIELD GUIDE

The sign arrives first.

The last Saturday of summer, a COMING SOON sign appears beside the lot behind your building. You have a library field guide, a disposable camera, sidewalk chalk, and until sunset to learn what “empty” really means.

What do you do?

ABOUT THIS STORY

No account is required. This is original fiction inspired by the small places communities document, remember, and care for together.