Really Really Free Market at AIDS Garden Chicago
Sat 10 Oct, 10:00 · AIDS Garden Chicago, lakefront south of Belmont Ave., Lakeview · Chicago
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via Choose Chicago · Checked 4 Oct 2026
About this event
Nothing here costs anything and nothing is for sale. People bring what they no longer need — plants, food, firewood, haircuts, tarot readings, banjo lessons — and take what they want. A three-hour experiment in a gift economy, held in the lakefront memorial garden.
Why we picked it
A market where money does not change hands at all, in one of the city's newest public gardens.
Free entry
Everything at the market is free by design; the listing states 'everything is free'.
Registration
None
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