Severance: Explore Real-Life Locations That Built Lumon's World

9. Willowbrook Ballroom – Willow Springs, Illinois (The Perpetuity Wing)

The Willowbrook Ballroom, a once-elegant but now ghostly historic dance hall in Willow Springs, Illinois, serves as the bizarre and unsettling setting for Lumon’s Perpetuity Wing—a place where the company’s cult-like devotion to its founder, Kier Eagan, is meticulously preserved. The Perpetuity Wing is meant to be a monument to Lumon’s history, filled with portraits, artifacts, and unsettlingly worshipful displays dedicated to Kier Eagan’s legacy. But rather than feeling inspiring or nostalgic, this space is suffocating, eerie, and deeply unnatural. The choice of the Willowbrook Ballroom, with its high ceilings, faded grandeur, and labyrinthine layout, enhances this feeling of forced reverence and corporate brainwashing. The long hallways, dim lighting, and slightly outdated décor make the space feel like a museum frozen in time, reflecting Lumon’s obsession with controlling both its past and its employees’ perception of reality. The ballroom’s eerily quiet atmosphere further reinforces the isolation and disconnection the employees experience, making the Perpetuity Wing one of the most chilling locations in the series. By using a real-world venue with a history of its own, Severance blurs the line between fiction and reality, making Lumon’s manufactured history feel even more sinister and inescapable.