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<a href="https://flic.kr/p/oJUQV7" target="_blank">Flickr/Phil Roeder</a>

Savanna Army Depot

Chicago

PERMANENTLY CLOSED

Watch your step at these abandoned barracks along the Mississippi. What was once an explosives testing facility from 1917 to 1995 now is a barren landscape most of which is still not open to the public-- over 100 rounds of ammunition, grenades and land mines have yet to be removed from the site.

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