Yes Virginia, there IS a Superman.
Metropolis, Illinois
A small town on the north bank of the Ohio River.
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Daily Photo 27 June
Superman’s Hometown
Metropolis, Illinois
On the banks of the Ohio River
Superman Lives, In Metropolis Illinois
There is a town called Metropolis along the Ohio River at the very bottom of Illinois. In 1972 the state of Illinois made Metropolis the official hometown of Superman.
In 1973 a California man named Jim Hambrick opened a Superman Museum. The museum has a collection of over 100,000 items. One of his most prized items is the suit worn by George Reeves in the first color television episodes of “Adventures of Superman.”
Every year over 30,000 visitors from around the globe descend on the town for the annual Metropolis Superman Celebration. The annual event is held the second weekend of June. This year will its 36th year. The celebration will be June 12 to 15, 2014.
The celebration includes a lookalike contest. Hundreds of people dressed as Superman gather around a 15 foot bronze statue of the superhero that the town erected in 1993. 
The town of Metropolis is hoping to become a Guinness World Record holder by being part of the world’s largest-ever gathering of people dressed as Superman. To date the largest gathering of people dressed as Superman is 867 people that gathered in Cumbria, UK, on 27 July, 2013.
