Chicago Clubs
Chicago is another of those cities which has abounded with clubs over the years, many with confusingly similar names.
Contents
- 1 Chicago Science Fictioneers
- 2 University of Chicago Science Fiction Club
- 3 University of Chicago Science Fiction Society
- 4 Chicago Science Fiction Society
- 5 Chicon II Society
- 6 University of Chicago SF Society
- 7 University of Illinois at Chicago Science Fiction Society
- 8 Queen to Queen's Three
- 9 West Suburban Science Fiction Society
- 10 Science Fiction and Fantasy Forum
- 11 The Nite Group
- 12 West Suburban Group
Chicago Science Fictioneers[edit]
fl. 1930s
An early SF club in Chicago, formed by fan W. Lawrence Hamling.
University of Chicago Science Fiction Club[edit]
University of Chicago Science Fiction Society[edit]
fl. 1950-1960s
A club at the University of Chicago founded in 1950 by Tom Seidman, George D'Asaro, and John Boardman. It published The Journal of Science Fiction and was part of CHIAC.
In its early years, club meetings were so informal as to be pretty chaotic -- though they weren't dull. Its 1952 Halloween party included an imitation black mass, which gained it unwelcome notice by the university's President. Earl Kemp became club President in 1953. Its faculty adviser was Nobel-Prize-winning chemist Harold Urey!
In 1963, the club split into two groups. By this time, none of the members were students at the University of Chicago, and many felt that the club had become stale. George Price, who had been doing the club's program and sending out meeting notices wanted a more sf-oriented group and began hosting a monthly meeting. Rosemary Hickey helped set up a monthly social group (including drinking) called the Chicago SF League. Template:Hyde Park group??
Chicago Science Fiction Society[edit]
Chicon II Society[edit]
fl. 1950-53
Chicago Science Fiction Society AKA Chicon II Society is the organization which ran Chicon II, which see.
University of Chicago SF Society[edit]
fl. 1969-73 The University of Chicago SF Society was a new UofC club founded in April 1968 with Jerry Lapidus, Michael Jensen, Linda Kravinski and Charles Fuhrer as officers. By 1969, it was meeting in Ida Noyes Hall on campus. This club made a short-lived and unsuccessful bid for the 1973 Worldcon. See Chicago in '73.
University of Illinois at Chicago Science Fiction Society[edit]
fl. 1970s
(See University of Illinois SF Society for the Champaign-Urbana club.)
The University of Illinois at Chicago Science Fiction Society, a club at the University of Illinois Chicago Circle campus, published a clubzine, Tesseract, and fed heavily into Chicago fandom and Chicago Clubs#Thursday.
In the 1970s, members included Robin Beal, E. Michael Blake, John Donat, Cory Glaberson, Kathy Hoover, Joy King, Jim Kobrinetz, Doug Price and Doug Rice.
Queen to Queen's Three[edit]
fl. 1979-present
A media SF club. Michael Jencevice has been its president since 1979.
West Suburban Science Fiction Society[edit]
fl. 1979-82
A club located in the western suburbs of Chicago. It was founded by Ken Mason. {Could this be related to the Chicago Clubs#West Suburban Group?}
Science Fiction and Fantasy Forum[edit]
fl. 1989
An apparently short-lived Chicago club.
The Nite Group[edit]
fl. 1989
An apparently short-lived Chicago club.
West Suburban Group[edit]
fl. 1989
An apparently short-lived Chicago club.
