An Ex-Seattleite Tours the Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone

Simon Greenwood
8 min readJul 1, 2020
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I was born and raised in Seattle. Last week I returned to the city that was my home for thirty years to visit my brother, still a true-blue Seattlite. While I was there I couldn’t resist touring the hotspot that’s bemused journalists across the nation. I had to go to the CHAZ (Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone) and see this new pseudo-nation for myself.

The Birth of a Zone

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