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valoryhope
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« on: September 28, 2009, 01:17:12 PM »

I'm going to Chicago in late October and I'd love to visit Harry's neighborhood (e.g., Chicago neighborhoods such as Streeterville or Bucktown). Do the books specifically name the area where Harry lives? Or is anyone familiar enough with Chicago to hazard a guess? I'd also be interested in other parts of Chicago related to The Dresden Files. (Last year I saw Sue in the Field Museum and Graceland Cemetery; this year I hope to go out on Lake Michigan.)

Thanks for any suggestions!

(And please let me know if I'm posting in the wrong place...I'm new here!)
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« Reply #1 on: September 28, 2009, 02:07:04 PM »

jim isnt from chicago. he mentioned earlier that he chose that city because of keeping his character as unique as possible, didnt want to mingle with the cities of other urban fantasy characters. i think it is just an imaginary neighborhood (just a guess)
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« Reply #2 on: September 28, 2009, 02:55:04 PM »

jim isnt from chicago. he mentioned earlier that he chose that city because of keeping his character as unique as possible, didnt want to mingle with the cities of other urban fantasy characters. i think it is just an imaginary neighborhood (just a guess)

Someone here had a business card with Harry's address on it that Jim was handing out at some point, and it turns out that according to Google Earth it's a real street, though I can't recall the name.
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« Reply #3 on: September 28, 2009, 02:59:46 PM »

cool, i wonder how jim chose it?
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« Reply #4 on: September 28, 2009, 03:05:10 PM »

Harry's office address:  13 Raven's Rd, Chicago, IL

ETA:  USPS.com says it's not a valid address, for whatever that's worth.
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« Reply #5 on: September 30, 2009, 11:03:02 PM »

Those cards were part of the promotional package for the TV show.  The address isn't book-canon.
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« Reply #6 on: November 06, 2009, 04:19:36 AM »

Didn't Jim say at some point that he purposely didn't mention a particular neighbourhood because he didn't want people to visit, knocking on people's doors and such?

 It does happen, I believe there are many people who have bothered residents in the street where Sherlock Holmes was supposed to live even though the number doesn't exist.
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« Reply #7 on: November 06, 2009, 04:11:22 PM »

Didn't Jim say at some point that he purposely didn't mention a particular neighbourhood because he didn't want people to visit, knocking on people's doors and such?

I don't know, but it makes a lot of sense; myself, i favour numbers on real streets that put a character's house in the middle of a large park for that purpose.

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It does happen, I believe there are many people who have bothered residents in the street where Sherlock Holmes was supposed to live even though the number doesn't exist.

Not as such.

When Arthur Conan Doyle was writing, the street numbers in Baker Street only went up into the seventies; there was a London street reorganisation afterwards due to which 221B Baker Street is technically a real address, but a large bank actually occupies it and several other numbers on that street; there was a point at which they had a secretary specially to deal with letters to Holmes.
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« Reply #8 on: November 07, 2009, 11:38:23 AM »

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/221B_Baker_Street

I was about to post that it was kind of sad that people actually debated this sort of thing when I looked around as remembered where I was posting Grin
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« Reply #9 on: November 26, 2009, 03:48:45 PM »

Didn't Jim say at some point that he purposely didn't mention a particular neighbourhood because he didn't want people to visit, knocking on people's doors and such?

 It does happen, I believe there are many people who have bothered residents in the street where Sherlock Holmes was supposed to live even though the number doesn't exist.

This happens in Astoria, Oregon too, TONS of people go to the house that the Goonies lived in and ask for tours and such. The city actually has a law on the books saying that who ever owns the house HAS to say yes. Many of the citizens of Astoria actually hate that movie, because of all the people who constantly mention it.
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