Location from Divergent by Veronica Roth
The former Willis Tower — now the site of the annual Choosing Ceremony where sixteen-year-olds cut their hands and let their blood fall into the bowl of the faction that will define the rest of their lives.
The Hub pulses with a specific kind of dread once a year. On Choosing Day, the building fills with families who know that in an hour their children might leave them forever. The ceremony itself is simple and brutal — a knife, a hand, and blood dripping into a bowl. The hiss of blood on hot coals. The gasp when an Abnegation child chooses Dauntless. Outside Choosing Day, the Hub serves as a general civic building, but it never fully loses that charge. Everyone who passes through its lobby remembers the day they chose, or the day their child chose someone else's faction over their family.
The tallest building in Chicago — the old Willis Tower repurposed as the city's civic center. A massive glass-and-steel skyscraper that dominates the skyline. Inside, the Choosing Ceremony hall is a vast amphitheater with five bowls arranged in a semicircle: grey stones for Abnegation, water for Erudite, earth for Amity, lit coals for Dauntless, glass for Candor. The ceiling is impossibly high. Every faction sits in their section, divided by color.
Also known as: The Hub, Willis Tower, Choosing Ceremony Hall