Chicago, IL

The Windy City has seen a variety of costumed heroes come and go in its time, from the mysterious “elastic investigator” known as Gumshoe, to the local team of air- and weather-controllers called the Four Winds (each named after a cardinal direction), and Chicago has seen a number of super-powered and costumed criminals as well, from the sinister Ganglord to the mournful Dirge and the serial killer Slaughterhouse.
A few Chicago super-beings, like the mysterious Codex, keeper of a vast library of obscure lore, are unclear in their allegiances, or prefer to have none. Those familiar with the occult suggest Codex may be a cosmic being on the order of Mr. Infamy, or even one of the The Primals themselves. Whatever the case, he makes his collection available to those who manage to find their way into it, sometimes quite unexpectedly from the stacks of another library.
Superhuman activity in Chicago, while greater than most of the country, has never matched even that of New York City, much less Freedom or Emerald City, and has been on the decline for some time.