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by: SlidingBilly

Every day, I ride the local commuter rail line between my home and the office I work at in downtown Chicago.  This train line goes through the western suburbs and the west side of Chicago.  That means that every day, I see the innumerable empty, weed-choked lots that litter that part of Chicago.  I ride past blocks that have more empty lots than houses, where concrete slabs that once supported buildings now lay bare, occasionally serving as parking spaces.

These are hardly new, these hundreds of empty lots.
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