Chicago

This is where the first two books take place in the Divergent series. Chicago is fenced in, letting the imagination wonder as to what is outside. In Allegiant, Tris and the others break out and are introduced into the outside world, in a post-apocalyptic reality check.

Outside Chicago

Everyone believes that the outside will be different, but when they break out, they soon learn it isn’t much different than where they were from. With a world as big as theirs now, some of the group wonder how they could matter.

The Fringe

The Purity War left the United States in ruins. Many people who lived near Chicago now live in the O’Hare Airport in the Bureau of Genetics or in a run down version of the suburbs, known as “The Fringe”. The Fringe is made up of houses with boarded windows, where all the residents carry...