Greater Chicago Housing Arcology Project

The Greater Chicago Housing Arcology Project was originally conceived as a way to bring families out of the irradiated zones caused by World War III, open up areas for future urban development, and reclaim arable land for crop plantations. The twelve arcology apartment projects in the Greater Chicago Sprawl were designed as 200 floor mini-cities; and because they were considered high-value targets to terrorists, nuclear fallout shelters. Each self-contained building is capable of housing 50,000 people who could go to work, shop, eat, find entertainment, and in theory, never need to leave the arcology. The realities of the housing situation in the sprawl dictate that each arcology usually houses nearly half again that many people, causing overcrowding and necessitating that some space reserved for businesses or entertainment be converted into living space.

The initial three towers were designed by renowned architect John Wagner, who sadly fell from the top floor of the newly completed Atlantic Arcology. It is unknown whether he was murdered or committed suicide, but his company IPC Design folded soon after. Construction of the remaining towers were all completed by a rival design firm, Aspectus.

The twelve towers are listed in their geographical locations:

Corporate Enclaves

Often shortened to corpclaves, corporate suburban enclaves are a fast growing industry in the AFR. In simple terms, corpclaves are gated communities owned by a megacorp that have been granted a similar form of extra territoriality to the parent corporation. Each of these little franchise republics provides their own constitution, border, entertainment, and security. Buying a membership in a specific brand of 'corpclave provides you with access to services in any of that franchise's enclaves. City police and non-members do not willingly cross the boundaries for fear of security response.