Editing Metropolis, Illinois (section)

==Superman's "hometown"==
In his various portrayals, [[Superman]] resides in a [[Fictional city|fictional American city]] named [[Metropolis (comics)|Metropolis]], and on April 25, 1972, the Illinois State Legislature passed Resolution 572, commending Metropolis for its "Project Superman" community program.<ref>{{cite web |title=HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES SEVENTY-SEVENTH GENERAL ASSEMBLY ' ONE HUNDRED TWENTY-THIRD LEGISLATIVE DAY |url=https://www.ilga.gov/house/transcripts/htrans77/HT042572.pdf |access-date=5 December 2024}}</ref>

The city has a {{convert|15|ft|m|adj=mid|-tall}} painted bronze statue of Superman which sits in front of the county courthouse, and a statue of [[Noel Neill]]'s [[Lois Lane]] from ''The Adventures of Superman'' stands just a few blocks away.[[File:Metropolis IL 2022b.jpg|thumb|217x217px|The [[Massac County, Illinois|Massac County]] Courthouse with Superman statue ''(left)'' and Superman Museum ''(right)'']]

Each year on the second weekend of June, Superman fans from all over the world gather in Metropolis<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.supermancelebration.net/about-us/|title=Superman Celebration - About Us}}</ref> for their annual [http://supermancelebration.net/ Superman Celebration], which features celebrity guests from movies, television, and the comic book industry.

Since June 1979, the Metropolis Chamber of Commerce had organized 44 editions of the [[Superman Celebration]].

The four-day annual celebration also boasts vendors selling food, comics, homemade crafts, and other merchandise, as well as discussion panels, auctions, a costume contest, and a variety of other events throughout the weekend. The first such celebration was organized by local civic clubs and took place in June 1979.<ref>{{cite journal|last=Van Hyning|first=Thomas E.|title=Southern Illinois entices vacationers|journal=Illinois Parks and Recreation|volume=17|issue=3|publisher=Illinois Park and Recreation Society|year=1986|url=https://www.lib.niu.edu/1986/ip860509.html}}</ref>

The local newspaper is named ''[http://www.MetropolisPlanet.com The Metropolis Planet]'', inspired by ''The [[Daily Planet]]'', the fictional paper in the Superman comics and other Superman media.<ref>{{cite news | url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=i4JTAAAAIBAJ&sjid=sYYDAAAAIBAJ&pg=4002%2C1570556 | title=Unusual names bestowed on a few U.S. newspapers | work=The Bulletin | date=Apr 19, 1984 | access-date=22 May 2015 | author=Weintraub, Boris | pages=16}}</ref>

The real town of Metropolis is portrayed in one Superman comic-book story, "Superman #92", in a story titled "Massacre in Metropolis!" (which is continued into "Adventures of Superman #515"), as a town whose citizens idolize what is to them the real-life Man of Steel. A villain named [[Massacre (DC Comics)|Massacre]] arrives in the town, having gotten lost and thinking he was in the "other" Metropolis, the large city where Superman actually lives. He attacks a security guard and threatens many citizens in order to get proper directions to Superman's Metropolis.{{citation needed|date=July 2020}}
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