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  • #REDIRECT [[List of Chicago Conventions]] [[Category:redirect]]
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  • [[Conventions]] in [[Chicago]]. ==Annual conventions==
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  • #REDIRECT [[List of Chicago Conventions]]
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  • [[Conventions]] in [[Chicago]]. ==Annual conventions==
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  • #REDIRECT [[List of Chicago Conventions]]
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  • A [[fan gathering]] that ran from October 7–9, 1944, in [[Chicago]]. Attendees included [[Walt Dunkelberger]], [[Frank Robinson]], [[E. E. E See [[Early Conventions]].
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  • ...]s. It is one of two hotels to have hosted the three major fan-run Chicago conventions. From 2002 until its close in 2008, it was branded the '''Sheraton Chicago Northwest'''. Shortly after Capricon announced it would be changing hotels
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  • ...n]] who was a member of the [[University of Chicago SF Society]], attended conventions in the 50s, wrote for the [[fanzines]], and published ''[[Sigbo]]'' and ''[
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  • #REDIRECT [[List of Chicago Conventions]] [[Category:redirect]]
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  • ...29]], [[Capricon 30]], and [[Smofcon 34]]. She was a [[co-chair]] of the [[Chicago in 2022]] [[Worldcon]] bid and chaired [[Chicon 8]]. She has been a part of ...in hopes of introducing people to the genre and promoting science fiction conventions.
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  • The Third '''Chicago Conference''' was a [[convention]] held during April 1940 in [[Bloomington, ...nces are they were of similar size. There was no local [[club]] and the [[Chicago]] [[fans]] who were organizing the [[Chicon]] made [[feuding]] endemic. [[
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  • ...m]] in 1978, and who worked on numerous [[conventions]], particularly in [[Chicago|Chicagoland]], such as [[Windycon]], where he ran the [[Dealers' Room]] for
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  • (Did you mean the [[MuseCon|series of Chicago-area maker conventions]]?)
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  • ...ered around [[Columbus]] and [[Chicago]] who specialized in saving failing conventions. Members included [[Ross Pavlac]] (who initially named it the '''Columbus They were a competent lot who did much good for conventions (including [[MidAmeriCon]] and [[SunCon]]), but came under considerable cri
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  • ...creasingly employed by an aging [[fan]] population, especially at larger [[conventions]]. During [[Chicon 8]] in 2022, the entire [[Chicago]] area sold out of rental scooters (only partly the fault of [[Covid-19]] p
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  • ...of the [[Capricon]] [[SF conventions]] held annually in February in the [[Chicago]] area. Besides Capricon, Phandemonium runs a monthly [[book]] club, dining
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  • A convocation of [[fans]] that took place in [[Chicago]] October 12–13, 1946, at the Fort Dearborn Hotel and [[Erle Korshak]]'s See also: [[Early Conventions]].
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  • ...also called '''Midfan''') was founded to run [[Con Fandom|conrunner]]s' [[conventions]] in the [[Midwest Fandom|Midwest]] (notably [[Midwest Construction]]) and Four [[Midwest Construction]]s were held ([[Chicago]], [[Ann Arbor]], [[Kansas City]], and [[Columbus]]) between 2002 and 2005
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  • ...[SF]] [[fan]] from [[Chicago]] who began attending SF and [[comic book]] [[conventions]] as a teenager in the early 1980s and who first attended a fan-run convent Chris has attended so many conventions in that 40-plus year stretch that he's lost count of them, but in the mid-9
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  • .... For many years, he was recognizable by a trademark red fedora he wore at conventions.
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  • ...fan]]. She is a mainstay of [[General Technics]]. She has worked on many [[conventions]], including [[Worldcons]], and [[chaired]] [[MoonBase ConFusion]] in 2007. Roxanne also lived in [[Chicago]], and now resides in the U.P. with her husband, [[Steve King]]. She’s an
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  • ...[[fringe fandom]]s, even though those groups run their own tightly focused conventions, which exclude other interests. Proponents of the Big Tent also tend to obj ...mple of this philosophy in practice, consider [[Windycon 40]], held near [[Chicago]] in 2013, which used "The Big Tent" as its theme. The [[convention]] featu
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  • ...ed around [[filking]] was called '''FilkCon''' and was held in 1979 near [[Chicago]], probably at the Arlington Park Hilton. It was the first filk convention ...eral of the FilkCons became the first convention of a major series of filk conventions. Today, a '''filk con''' could be one of any number of cons.
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  • ...wo hotels to have hosted each of the three major [[fan]]-run [[Chicago]] [[conventions]]: [[Windycon]], [[Capricon]], and [[DucKon]]. ...rking lot was the site of the gangland slaying of mobster Allan Dorfman. [[Chicago]] [[fan]] [[Dick Smith]] happened to be on the premises at the time.
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  • ...einer]], and others built blinkies and showed them off at [[Midwestern]] [[conventions]]. [[Jim Fuerstenberg]] popularized them outside [[techie]] circles, wearin ...elped run Build-a-Blinky sessions at [[DucKon]] and other [[Chicago]]-area conventions.
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  • ...n]]. He is a noted [[sf]] art collector and has organized displays at many conventions including an especially well-regarded one at [[Chicon 2000]]. He was a reg
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  • A northern [[Indiana]]/[[Chicago]]-area [[convention]] founded in 1998, which ran five times between its fou ...ut together by a group which had focused on running [[parties]] at various conventions with the desire to create a con which offered a larger exposure to [[media
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  • ...en Roper''' (formerly '''Van Dorn''', née '''Duntemann''') is a longtime [[Chicago]] [[fan]], [[filker]], [[conrunner]] and [[huckster]]. She co-founded [[Dod ...artner and since then used used it for their [[huckstering]] business at [[conventions]], specializing in [[filk]].
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  • ==Bidded Conventions== ...them the right to run a future convention. The [[members]] of these moving conventions vote on where the future con will be held one or two years in advance.
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  • A [[club]] at DePaul University in [[Chicago]] which published the [[clubzine]] ''[[Effen Essef]]''. Also known as the ...sed of three issues, with contributions from DePaul club members and other Chicago-area fans. Issues can now be found in DePaul Library's special collections
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  • ...–7, 1946, this event was attended by sixteen [[fans]], including four from Chicago and most of the rest from [[Milwaukee]] and [[Battle Creek]]. ...tin Miles]]; from [[Battle Creek]]: [[Ed Counts]] and [[Earl Perry]]; from Chicago: [[Sandy Kadet]], [[Elsie Janda]], [[Ollie Saari]], and [[Dick Wilson]]; fr
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  • ...hets|derogatory term]] for a certain type of attendee at [[science-fiction conventions]], particularly one in [[hall costume|costume]] who drifts around the venue A [[scientificombination]] of ''drone'' and ''wardrobe'' — [[Chicago]]'s [[Dick Smith]] thinks he coined it in the early 1980s. In his parlance,
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  • ...lt attendees at [[science fiction]], [[gaming]], and other genre-related [[conventions]]. [[Chicago]] ||U.B.S. Abandon ||[[Terrence Miltner|Captain Ron Añejo]]
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  • '''Chicago''' [[fandom]] has remained as disorganized and nearly as quiet as it was wh ...hey are all small, decentralized and often short-lived. Most Chicagoland [[conventions]] and 'tween-convention gatherings are held in the suburbs.
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  • ...[[fan]]. He was a member of [[Thursday]] and belongs to [[GT]]. At area [[conventions]], [[Worldcons]] and a few others, he can generally be found at 1 a.m. and He is married to [https://chicago.medicine.uic.edu/departments/academic-departments/medical-education/dme-fac
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  • ...and [[fan]], [[academic]] and [[critic]]. She has been a regular at area [[conventions]], [[Worldcons]] and others, participating in many an [[ac track]], and run ...Educational Impact, Inc., 1974. She was [[science-fiction]] critic for the Chicago Daily News.
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  • A phrase from [[mundania]], where it originally described the room in [[Chicago]]'s Blackstone Hotel where a small group of powerful [[United States]] sena ...n the following year's consite]], by analogy with the SFR of [[political]] conventions. But now it simply designates any hotel room where [[fans]] gather during a
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  • ...has also published a number of poems and has coordinated poetry slams in [[Chicago]], where he makes his home. ...con]], and has overseen several other writers workshops at science fiction conventions over the years, often running the workshop at [[Windycon]].
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  • ...Ashley]], [[Walt Liebscher|Liebscher]], and other [[fen]] of the area in [[Chicago, IL]] in the spring of '43; they prowled the bookshops, and at a [[Room Par ...Battle Creek; [[Walt Liebscher]] from Joliet, IL; [[Frank Robinson]], from Chicago; and [[Bob Tucker]] from [[Bloomington, IL]].
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  • ...These conventions may attract many [[ghosts]]. With the proliferation of [[conventions]], some cons that used to be [[regionals]] have devolved into local cons. ...ocal for any considerable length of time. Even in the large cities, like [[Chicago]] and [[Washington]], there have been periods when there was no active [[fa
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  • ...y of [[All-Night Fandom]], would frequently throw her hotel room open at [[conventions]] for casual coffee gatherings after most [[room parties]] had died down. ...Henry. [[Henry Cabot Beck, Sr.|Hank]] and Martha became associated with [[Chicago fandom]] in 1957.
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  • ...dary book dealer (he hated the term "[[huckster]]") who was active at [[SF conventions]] from the late 1970s through the early 1990s. (His older brother, [[Henry
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  • ...ember of the [[Dorsai Irregulars]], a group which provides [[security]] to conventions, and serves as the [[organization]]'s Corporate Agent. At [[science fiction conventions]], Passovoy often acts as an [[auction]]eer and has helped create the style
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  • ...at the [[GT|General Technics Berserkers]] and other activities, regional [[conventions]], and by passing the torch to his children who have developed close friend While at DePaul, Steve arranged for an on-campus speaker series with [[Chicago]]-area authors, conducted clandestine traversals of the university's steam
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  • ...Lives!''' was one of the earliest and most influential ''[[Star Trek]]'' [[conventions]]. It was [[fan]]-run, with many members of the [[committee]] also active i ...The committee did heavy advertising including TV spots, and had rented the Chicago Amphitheater, which seats 13,000. The got 200 people on Friday and 800 on S
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  • ...]]'' was a [[fanzine]] devoted to his writing. He was a regular at [[early conventions]] such as the [[Second Eastern States Science Fiction Convention]], [[Nycon Kline was born in [[Chicago]].
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  • ...ssful [[Baltimore in '83]] [[Worldcon]] [[bid]]. He traveled to numerous [[conventions]] around the country to throw bidding parties and give "[[Backrubs for Balt ...[[Sue Lovell|Toots Larue]] and [[gafiated]]. Afterward, he lived in the [[Chicago]] area, and had moved to [[Arizona]] by the time of his death. Moose and To
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  • A [[Chicago]]-area [[local convention]] founded in 1980 by [[fans]] dissatisfied with [ ...caused much consternation when this practice was adopted for one of the [[Chicago Worldcons]] and took unaccustomed fans by surprise.
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  • '''Dr. Elizabeth Anne “Betty” Hull''' was a [[Chicago]]land [[academic]], [[politics|political activist]], [[collector]] and [[SF .... She ran writers’ workshops and judged writing contests for a number of [[conventions]]. She was a contributor to ''[[Locus]]''.
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  • ...handful of its members actually getting together as a local group in the [[Chicago]] area, and only partly devoted to the then new genre of [[science fiction] ...ery, Alabama. A month later, [[Walter Dennis]] and [[Sydney Gerson]] of [[Chicago]] formed a similar club. The following year, the two clubs merged with 25
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  • [[Chicago]]-area fan who became active in internet [[fandom]] in the mid-90s and bega ...served as a vice-chair for [[Chicon 7]], as well as the President of the [[Chicago Worldcon Bid | corporate board]] in the years leading up to the 2012 [[Worl
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  • Beginning in 1976, Bob began serving as the [[co-chair]] of the [[Chicago Comicon]], then the second largest [[comic book]] convention in the United ...up [[The Stars Our Destination]], a science fiction specialty bookstore in Chicago from 1988 through 2003. In 1997, Bob sold his mail order business to Alice.
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  • This is an odd duck, or more precisely, a series of unrelated odd ducks: [[Conventions]] which were announced but which may or may not have actually been held. W [[Travelcon to the Solacon]]||August 1958||[[Chicago]] to [[LA]]||
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