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A small post-industrial city in northern Illinois, located on the shores of Lake Michigan between Chicago and the Wisconsin border. Home to some 200,000 residents, it bears certain striking structural similarities to Mill Walk, having been built on an east-west axis from the lakefront to the distant suburbs. A number of street names are found in both locations, as is a hotel called the St. Alwyn. (The name is supposedly derived from the little-known St. Alvin of the Pyrenees, the patron saint of the hungry.) Millhaven contains a number of handsome parks designed by Olmstead, four private residences designed by Frank Lloyd Wright, a striking combination Art Museum-War Memorial, fine German restaurants, and a well-regarded educational institution, Arkham University. An inexplicable number of Millhaven’s citizens have become serial killers, among them the notorious Walter Dragonette.