Location from The Dresden Files by Jim Butcher
Marcone's corporate headquarters — a legitimate health club and services company that launders his criminal empire and serves as the nerve center for the Baron of Chicago's operations.
Executive Priority Health is a high-end health club and corporate services company headquartered in a sleek downtown Chicago office building. The lobby is marble and glass. The receptionist is professional. The security guards are polite, well-dressed, and carrying concealed firearms. Everything about the place communicates money, taste, and the kind of organizational competence that would make a Fortune 500 board of directors nod approvingly. That's the point. Behind the legitimate business — and it is legitimate, profitable, and tax-compliant — Executive Priority is the operational hub of John Marcone's criminal empire. Marcone runs organized crime in Chicago with the precision of a corporate CEO. Drug distribution networks, protection rackets, gambling operations, and real estate acquisitions flow through shell companies and subsidiary operations that all trace back, eventually, to Executive Priority. Marcone's office is on the top floor. Hendricks, his bodyguard, is usually nearby — six and a half feet of former linebacker who reads philosophy texts. Gard, his Valkyrie security consultant, maintains the building's supernatural defenses. Since Marcone became a Freeholding Lord under the Unseelie Accords — the first vanilla mortal to hold that title — Executive Priority has also become a de facto supernatural embassy. Beings who want to do business with the Baron of Chicago come here, sit in comfortable chairs, and negotiate under rules that Marcone enforces with absolute precision.
Glass-and-steel corporate office downtown. Clean lines, expensive art, security that's better than it looks. The reception area could be any upscale firm. Marcone's actual office is armored behind the walls and has lines of sight to every approach.
Also known as: Executive Priority, Marcone's office, Executive Priority Health