Will, of the city.

This is the story of how Chicago became a ghost town. 

All most people know is that the lake dried up unexpectedly, and that caused the town and its suburbs to lose 98% of its population. But most people don't know how or why this happened. To know this, one must know of one man: Will Crets.
 Will Crets was a nobody. He worked downtown as an accountant for the city, had his apartment in the west loop, and kept to himself. He had no true friends to speak of, and the rest of his family was in Arkansas. He was a stranger to all, so nobody expected him to destroy the third largest city in the United States.
  Everyday, Will's accounting division was given boxes full of invoices. Usually, these were from companies that sold appliances used for upkeep in the city. Things like gasoline and light bulbs, supplied by different companies. It was all very boring to most accountants. They would just file the invoices by company name without looking at the things being purchased by the city.
 Will was different. From his first day with the division, Will would flip through all of them, reading as much of the billings as he could. This is a process that would take hours for most, but as a speed reader, Will would get through them in a matter of minutes.
 When he first started, he read all of the invoices. That is until the last day of the quarter his first year. On that day, Will picked up an invoice from a company called "Grant Chemical, LLC."
 It appeared to be a standard invoice, until Will looked at the itinerary. The only thing listed was a milliliter of something called "XX-4c." Even this would appear normal, until Will noticed that the price listed for the mysterious liquid was $36,000.
 What Will was supposed to do was take the invoice to his manager, who would file a claim with the city. But Will did not do this.Will made a copy of the invoice for himself, and then filed it like he would a normal invoice.The next day, all of the invoices for that quarter were thrown away. Including the one from Grant Chemical,LLC.
 The next quarter, the same invoice came in on the same day, for the same liquid, for the same price. And it continued to come in each quarter. It was about the 3rd time that the same invoice came in that Will decided to take a trip to Grant Chemical. He wrote down the address and left early.
 Will went to the address, only to find a beat up apartment building in a sketchy part of Pilsen. At first, he thought he had written down the wrong address, then he looked at the list of occupants of the building.There was nobody else on the list besides on  for apartment number five, which read:

        GRANT CHEMICAL LLC

Curious, Will went up to the apartment and knocked on the door. Nobody answered for what felt like hours.Over the past months,  Will had grown morbidly curious with this company. He was willing to do anything to find out more, and the mysterious location only heightened his fascination. Will then did something he never thought he would've done, and broke open the door. 

PART II WEDNESDAY