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Collected Item: “Empty Chicago”

Give your story a title.

Empty Chicago

What sort of object is this: text story, photograph, video, audio interview, screenshot, drawing, meme, etc.?

This is a photo of the empty Chicago streets.

Tell us a story; share your experience. Describe what the object or story you've uploaded says about the pandemic, and/or why what you've submitted is important to you.

Normally Chicago is one of the busiest city's in the United States, but due to the pandemic, everything was shut down and people became scared to come outside. This photo represents the emptiness that the pandemic has brought upon this typically alive city.

Use one-word hashtags (separated by commas) to describe your story. For example: Where did it originate? How does this object make you feel? How does this object relate to the pandemic?

#Empty, #Chicago, #NotNormal

Who originally created this object? (If you created this object, such as photo, then put "self" here.)

Noah Rosenberg

Give this story a date.

2020-10-14
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