Minor locations

This is a list of minor locations in the Dresden Files.

5550 North Greenwood
In "Wild Card", 5550 North Greenwood is the home address of two unnamed young women, located in an apparently fairly prosperous area of Chicago, inasmuch as its streets are kept clean and in good repair. It is however fairly empty of people, though this might be due to the hour of the night. Its residents barely manage to come home and call the police before they're killed by a rogue wyldfae.

Arctis Minora
In Cold Days, Mab mentions Arctis Minora as the Winter location where Maeve is to return, to await her mother's pleasure. It is unclear whether it is a city or a palace.

The Brewery
In "Bigfoot on Campus", the Brewery is Irwin Pounder's favorite eating place in Norman, in which he shares a meal with Harry Dresden and Connie Barrowill.

Boone Mill
In "Ghoul Goblin", Boone Mill, MO, is the small town residence of the Talbot family. A series of deaths target the Talbot family, ugly enough to prompt Prescott Tremaine to call in Harry Dresden for help. A goblin partly responsible for them is discovered during the eldest siblings' funeral in Saint Anne's graveyard.

Burnham Park
In Fool Moon, three bums were found murdered in the Park, and ascribed to the Lobo killings.

Buttercup Park
In Aftermath, Karrin Murphy sets up a meeting with the prospective buyer of Billy and Marcy in Buttercup Park.

Cabrini Green housing complex
In White Night, the Cabrini Green housing complex is located near his place.

Cairo café
In "Ghoul Goblin", this café witnesses Major Talbot crashing the line and chasing three supernatural creatures from their table. It results in his family being cursed.

Capristi Building
In Skin Game, The Capristi Building is located on the north side of Chicago and is owned by John Marcone. It includes the Verity Trust Bank of Chicago, also owned by Marcone, a mob bank where numerous supernatural powers keep a portion of their wealth, and the Way to the Underworld and Hades' Vault can be opened.

Carbide & Carbon Building
In Skin Game, the Carbide & Carbon Building hosts the meeting between Harry Dresden and Nicodemus Archleone where Dresden learns he is to help Nicodemus in robbing Hades' Vault.

Chicago Botanic Garden
In Cold Days, Harry Dresden sets up here his meeting with the Summer Lady.

Congo hospital
In "War Cry", 143 wizards wounded in the Battle of Palermo and relocated in this hospital are killed in a gas attack.

Damen Silos
In "Wild Card", Karrin Murphy remembers her father bringing her to the Damen Silos to skip stones. Though she doesn't like the place, he finds it peaceful and can connect with the place's past and his family's future. She later has Puck chasing her to the Silos to have an uninterrupted fight with him. The fight is brief and brutal, and Murphy hits him with steel-jacketed ammo before falling, allowing the CPD to arrive on time.

"Down Town" laundromat
In "Down Town", this laundromat witnesses the killing of its owner by a Golem.

Elbow Room
In "Ghoul Goblin", the Elbow Room is a drinking place in Unalaska. A dangerous place due to the high number of drunken brawls; Molly Carpenter and Carlos Ramirez use it as a starting ploint for their check on the Holy Ascension of Our Lord activities.

Evanston
In Dead Beat, Evanston is the end of Dresden's and Butters' ride on a reanimated Sue. It is also the location of Kendall College and the Mitchell Museum of the American Indian.

Forensic Institute
In Death Masks, the Foreensic Institute is Waldo Butters' workplace; Harry Dresden meets him there for the first time.

Gold Coast bistro
In "Monsters", John Marcone is having breakfast here, when Goodman Grey reports successful completion of his mission.

Goodman Grey's office
In "Monsters", Grey's office is an otherwise nondescript place, where he is hired by John Marcone for a cleaning job, and the children freed from Minor locations spend a night after their rescue.

Griswald's home
In "Ghoul Goblin", Griswald's home is in contrast with Harry Dresden's expectations, as it is extremely tidy and with an interesting choice of books.

Holy Ascension of Our Lord Cathedral
In "Cold Case", this cathedral is located in Unalaska, Alaska, and is the congregation place of the Holy Ascension of Our Lord cult. It witnesses the attempted sacrifice of a number of Miksani children to awaken the Sleeper, a Lovecraftian-like monster descended on Earth millions of years previously and weakened when its followers lost faith in it.

Hotel Sax
In Turn Coat, The Hotel Sax, or Sax Hotel, is a hotel in downtown Chicago, where Binder and Madeline Raith meet under the careful eavesdrop of Harry Dresden.

Kendall College and Mitchell Museum of the American Indian
In Dead Beat, Waldo Butters mentions Kendall college as the location of the Mitchell Museum of the American Indian, which it contains more Indian artifacts than the Field Museum of Natural History.

Lake Meadow Park
In Summer Knight, Harry Dresden investigates Lake Meadow Park an unusual rain of toads before being met by William Borden. Two teen gunners and a ghoul attack them, but are rapidly defeated.

Lake Providence
In Storm Front, Lake Providence is an expensive high-class community located in Michigan, just over the state line. Monica Sells states that it is very beautiful in the fall and that her husband's lake house is located there.

Lake Shore Drive
In Dead Beat, Harry Dresden and Waldo Butters ride a reanimated Sue on the Lake Shore Drive from the Field Museum of Natural History up to Evanston.

Left Hand Goods
In "Last Call", Left Hand Goods is a shop owned by Burt Decker selling often valueless products to unsuspecting non-magical people dabbling in dark magic.

Lincoln Park Zoo
In "Welcome to the Jungle", Maurice Sandbourne is killed at the Zoo,. and the homicide has been attributed to the gorilla Moe.

Lincolnshire Marriott Resort Hotel
In "Something Borrowed", the Lincolnshire Marriott Resort Hotel is the location of Georgia and Billy Borden's wedding.

Llyn y Fan Fach Tavern
In "Curses", the Llyn y Fan Fach Tavern is a pub with white-washed walls and heavy dark-stained timbers, managed by the Tylwyth Teg. Harry Dresden patronizes it to contact their king, Gwynn ap Nudd.

Logan Square
In Skin Game, Harvey Morrison keeps an office in Logan Square.

Loon Island Pub
In "Heorot", the Loon Island Pub, a bigger than average pub, hosts the Night of the Living Brews.

Joliet
In Turn Coat, Vincent Graver is mentioned as having joined the Joliet Police Department.

Joseph Talbot's mansion
In "Ghoul Goblin", this mansion is located in Boone Mill, and it's Joseph Talbot's personal property. Extremely difficult to reach, has been built in a five-point star form, and is located at the center of a perfectly round iron fence, decorated with each and every magically defensive sign known to man, including dreamcatchers and New Age symbols.

Marriott Downtown Chicago Hotel


In Death Masks, the Marriott Downtown Chicago Magnificent Mile Hotel hosts an art gala sponsored by the Chicago Historical & Art Society, during which John Marcone bought the Shroud of Turin from Anna Valmont. The transaction itself was disturbed by Harry Dresden and Susan Rodriguez, as well as an attack by the Order of the Blackened Denarius led by Nicodemus Archleone.

Susan Rodriguez and Harry Dresden attend the fundraiser to track down Anna Valmont and the Shroud of Turin before she sells it to John Marcone. They run into Marcone and Hendricks and are introduced to his new security advisor, Ms. Gard. Marcone tells them to leave and call in the gala security. Martin creates a diversion to enable Rodriguez and Dresden to go deeper into the hotel so Dresden can use a tracking spell to locate where Anna is. Dresden finds her, interrupts the transaction. The Denarians, Deirdre Archleone and "Snakeboy" Quintus Cassius led by Nicodemus Archleone, come after the Shroud. After an altercation, in which swirling marks appear on Rodriguez and is identified as "Fellowship", Archleone takes the shroud and abducts Dresden. Rodriguez, Valmont and Martin escape.

Martineaux's home
In "Dog Men", the Martineaux's home is an out-of-town, wooden house. Four people are attacked in it and disappeared; Mary Martineaux sees a huge creature leave it.

Millennium Park
In Backup, Thomas Raith follows his brother and the Stygian into Millennium Park.

Montezuma
In War Cry, Montezuma, IA, witnesses the siege of a group of Venatori by Red Court vampires trying to take possession of a shoggoth the Venatori are protecting.

Montezuma abandoned quarry
In "War Cry", the abandoned quarry outside Montezuma is where Harry Dresden and Thomas Raith lure the Shoggoth hidden there, and destroy it by exploding a number of gas canisters on it.

Montrose Point Bird Sanctuary
In Cold Days, the Sanctuary attracts both migrating birds during their flight and people in search of illicit recreation, making it ideal for evocation, something that Harry Dresden exploits in summoning Titania there.

Mortimer Lindquist's home
In Grave Peril, Mortimer Lindquist wanted his home to have a gothic feel. Due to budgetary constraints, it quite misses the mark, though, under the right conditions, it might give some chills to the right minded people. Without a threshold, the front room has the same feel of the exterior, and its décor is not much better.

Harry Dresden pays him a visit there, scaring him out of his wits.

Park Tower
In White Night, Thomas Raith's Coiffure Cup shop is located in the Tower.

Peninsula Hotel
In Skin Game, the Peninsula Hotel is one of the ritzier hotels in Chicago - its grand ballroom can be measured in hectares and events rarely start before eight. A posse of Fomor disguised as caterers attack Harry Dresden and Hannah Ascher when they arrive there to recruit Anna Valmont.

Rainbow Beach
In Fool Moon Rainbow Beach witnesses the first of the Lobo killings.

Realm of Shadows
In White Night, the Realm of the Shadows is quoted as the region of Nevernever at the end of a way opening in a deep cave above Camp Kaboom.

Richard J. Daley Center
In "Jury Duty", Harry Dresden is summoned at the Center to serve as juror in Hamilton Luther's process.

Rocky Mountains
In Fool Moon, the Rocky Mountains are the projected start of the Northwest Passage Project.

Saint Anne's graveyard
In "Ghoul Goblin", Saint Anne's graveyard is the only graveyard in Boone Mill, MO, and is located about a mile south of town as the crow flies; Harry Dresden starts here his search for the attacker of the Talbot family.

St. Anthony's Hospital
In "Day One", St. Anthony's Hospital is where Waldo Butters fights Dr. Miyamune, the Baku.

Sam Fogle's pawnshop
In "Down Town", Fogle's pawnshop witnesses the murder of his owner by a golem.

Schaumburg and Woodfield Mall
In "It's My Birthday, Too", Thomas Raith indicates he is at the Woodfield Mall in Schaumburg when his brother and Molly Carpenter try to give him a birthday present.

Shoegasm
In "It's My Birthday, Too", Shoegasm is a shoe shop accomodating a family of cobbs.

Shoggoth's hideout
In "War Cry", a Shoggoth is hidden in a lone house outside Montezuma. Apparently oriented with the cardinal points, it sustains a siege from Red Court vampires, intent to gain control of the monster.

Silver Bullet Diner
In "Ghoul Goblin", the Silver Bullet Diner is Boone Mill's local greasy spoon and congregation point for the town's youth.

Sullivan Meat Company
In Skin Game, the Sullivan Meat Company is an old slaugherhouse which survived the renovation of Chicago's stockyard district. An abandoned wreck of a slaughterhouse, it is a sagging and dirty two-storied building possibly antedating World War II and gives off waves of negative energy, repelling visitors and cars.

It serves as the location for the planning and organization of the burglary of Hades' Vault. Neither Harry Dresden nor Karrin Murphy like it.

Taylor
In "Dog Men", Taylor has to deal with the simultaneous presence of a LaChaise clan of ghouls and a pack of Wolf men.

Taylor church
In "Dog Men", the church is the location of the last fight between Harry Dresden and Taylor's residents against the ghouls infesting the town.

Taylor graveyard
In "Dog Men", the graveyard is a congregation point for Taylor's ghouls; it is big enough to hold at least a few tens, if not to more than a hundreds, of them; they use it to ambush Harry Dresden and agent Gentle.

Taylor hospital
In "Dog Men", the hospital sees a showdown between agents Lytle and Biggs and Harry Dresden when Joseph Listens-to-Wind is brought there for some serious R&R after he's injured. Bo Gentle, however, manages to restrain the two agents and starts redirecting their aggression to something else.

Taylor morgue
In "Dog Men", the morgue is the hideout of Remy LaChaise, unknown even to his coworkers.

Taylor pub
In "Dog Men", the pub is the local watering hole for both locals, tourists, and, according to its barmaid, something else. Harry Dresden visits it to collect information, and encounters there three LaChaise clan ghouls.

United Center
In "Last Call", the United Center hosts a Chicago Bulls game, which Meditrina Bassarid plans to disrupt by distributing tainted beer from McAnally's Pub.

Varsity
In Storm Front, the Varsity was a club located in a strip mall. Owned by Marcone and was crowded mainly by college-aged people. It was set on fire and burned during during the final fight. Reportedly, Marcone collected its insurance.

Wacker Drive
In Dead Beat, Wacker Drive witnesses Kumori bring a gunshot victim back to life.

Washington Park
In Fool Moon, Washington Park is where an old woman murdered in the Park, and her killing is included to the Lobo killings.

Whatsup Dock
In Skin Game, Whatsup Dock is a somewhat jocularly named dock Harry Dresden and Thomas Raith built on the beach nearest to the reef entrance of Demonreach's small harbor.

Wicker Park
In Grave Peril, Harry Dresden uses Wicker Park as a reference point to locate the church of Saint Mary of the Angels.

Wolf's people grove
In "Dog Men", this grove is the heart of the wolf people's territory.

Wolf Lake Park
In Fool Moon, Tera West drives Harry Dresden to Wolf Lake Park to meet Harley MacFinn. They later meet again, when West leaves Chicago for the great mountains of the Northwest.

Wrigleyville brothel
In "Monsters", this brothel is located in a non-descript home three blocks away from the Carpenter's house. Operated by a Los Angeles-based concern with ties to John Marcone's empire, it hosts six Spanish-speaking preteens of both based available to pedophilic guests at all hours; four guards keep them under control. According to Goodman Grey, one of the aims of the Los Angeles cartel was probably to gain leverage by exposing Marcone's people with tastes in children. Its security features are at least partly commercial.