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• Purple Hotel
  ...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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• Blinkies
  ...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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• Alex Eisenstein
  ...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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• 2BeContinued
  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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• Gretchen Roper
  ...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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• Bid
  ==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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• Armchair Speculators of DePaul University
  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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• First Post-Radar-Contact-with-the-Moon Con
  ...–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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• Drobe
  ...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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• Barfleet
  ...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, IL
  '''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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• Moshe Yudkowsky
  ...[[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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• Beverly Friend
  ...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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• Smoke-Filled Room
  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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• Richard Chwedyk
  ...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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• Midgicon
  ...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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• Locals
  ...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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• Martha Beck
  ...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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• Dick Spelman
  ...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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• Bob Passovoy
  ...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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• Steve Johnson
  ...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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• Star Trek Conventions
  ...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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• Otis Adelbert Kline
  ...]]'' 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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• Bob Lovell
  ...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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• Capricon
  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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• Elizabeth Anne Hull
  '''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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• ISA
  ...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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• Steven H Silver
  [[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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• Robert Weinberg
  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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• Conventions That May Not Have Happened
  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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• Frank M. Robinson
  ...n Shack]] in [[Battle Creek, Michigan]], collecting magazines, attending [[conventions]], and publishing the [[fanzine]] (''[[FANEWSCARD]]''). He was also known a ...r. Afterward, he went to graduate school in journalism, then worked for a Chicago-based Sunday supplement. Soon afterward he switched to ''Science Digest'',
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• Sam Moskowitz' Seacon Reminiscence
  .... This contrasts with the search for a familiar face at some of the larger conventions. For example, at [[Nolacon II]] (1988) in [[Louisiana]], the registration w So confident was [[Chicago]] that it would win the bid for the next convention, that its pivot man, [[
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• Dave Kyle's St. Louiscon Reminiscence
  ...Only two big conventions had been held from 1939 through 1965: [[Chicon II|Chicago 1952]] approached a thousand, as did [[Nycon II|New York 1956]]. The trend ...ship at $3, and rooms were $13 single, $18 double, suites starting at $35. Conventions were getting larger and so were the prices. (But twenty years later -- ouch
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• Dave Kyle's Chicon IV Reminiscence
  1982 -- [[Chicon IV]], [[Chicago]] ...g me to be a [[Program Participant]], a [[Dealer]] -- and a "Veteran" of [[Chicago Worldcons|four Chicons]]. The pale green one, the biggest one, has golden l
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• Thursday
  '''Thursday''', an informal gathering of [[Chicago|Chicagoland]] [[fans]], met weekly on Thursday nights during the 1970s and ...]'s apartment at 7660 N. Sheridan in the [[Rogers Park]] neighborhood of [[Chicago]]. Later, the location of the meetings changed weekly as different [[fans]]
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• Fan Lounge
  ...00]] recreated a typical [[fan]] living room as used for meetings of the [[Chicago]] [[fanclub]] [[Thursday]]. At [[Anticipation]] in [[Montreal]] in 2009, th
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• Oliver Saari
  ...art of the group who hung out at the [[Slan Shack]]. He attended many SF [[conventions]] in the 1940s and ’50s (including the 1943 and ’44 [[Michiconference]] ...ée, [[Ginny Haas]]. They married in November of that year and settled in [[Chicago]], according to [[Bob Tucker]] in ''[[Science Fiction News Letter]]'' 18, p
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• Early Conventions
  April 1940 || [[Third Chicago Conference]] || 4 || [[Bloomington, IL]] || September 1–2, 1940 || '''[[Chicon]]''' || 128 || [[Chicago, IL]] ||
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• Bill Roper
  [[Chicago]]land [[fan]], [[filker]] and [[conrunner]] '''Bill Roper''' co-founded Dod ...over as publisher of the press. He and his wife also [[huckster]] at many conventions as [[The Secret Empire]]. He was a regular at [[Thursday]].
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• Dick Smith
  ...]] in [[Wisconsin]] during the late 1970s, but has been most active from [[Chicago]]. He has been a prominent [[apahack]], [[convention fan]], [[fanzine]] pub After graduating from the University of Wisconsin, Dick moved to the [[Chicago]] area in 1979 (in time for the blizzard) and became active in both local [
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• Leah Zeldes Smith
  ...Zeldes Smith''' (pronounced LAY-uh ZEL-dəs), a longtime [[fan]] based in [[Chicago]] and [[Milwaukee]], has been a [[fanzine fan]], [[club fan]] and [[con fan ...or]], where she was active in the [[Stilyagi Air Corps]]. Upon moving to [[Chicago]] in 1985, she became a regular at [[Thursday]]. She served on the [[board]
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• Chicago Clubs
  [[Chicago]] is another of those cities which has abounded with short-lived [[clubs]] See also: [[Chicago]], ''[[6 in 60]]''.
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• Smofcon
  ...In 1983, after running an [[Atlanta]] [[bid party]] at [[Windycon X]] (a [[Chicago]] [[regional convention]]), they approached [[Ben Yalow]] (then on the [[NY ...his was the convention which successfully began an almost-annual series of conventions.
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• Sam Moskowitz' Detention Reminiscence
  ...e the convention expenses released sometime later. Today, when the cost of conventions runs into hundreds of thousands of dollars and a mismanaged event can rack ...he support of that city to [[Pittsburgh]]. Since there was a substantial [[Chicago]]-area representation in attendance, as well as my [[Eastern Science Fictio
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• Windycon
  '''Windycon''', a [[Chicago]]-area [[regional convention]], was founded in 1974 and held annually since ...ership hovering around 1,300. It is the largest of the [[fan]]-run Chicago conventions.
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• Sam Moskowitz' Nolacon I Reminiscence
  ...report on the unfair and unfavorable reports newspapers had given of past conventions. He intended to hand this as a general release to [[New Orleans]] papers. T ...vote, became a contest between the top two, [[Chicago]] and [[Atlanta]]. [[Chicago]] won, setting the stage for the first convention with an attendance over 1
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• Tucker Bag 4-1/2
  ...*sigh* [[sercon]] will be held both here and at [[Windycon 1|Windycon]] ([[Chicago]]'s first convention in 12 years -- see the [[Program Book]] its ad). [[Pr ...oday! Pickup can be made here (hope dies hard!) or at various Midwestern [[conventions]]
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• Larry Tucker
  ...70s through the '90s. Larry was a [[trufan]] whose [[fanac]] encompassed [[conventions]], [[fanclubs]] and [[fanzines]] — along with his own unique contribution ...nd videotape. He taped hundreds of hours of [[programming]] at scores of [[conventions]], both for SFOHA and on his own. He designed SFOHA's space dog logo.
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• Fred Patten
  ...e Justice Society of America at [[Chicon III]], the 1962 [[Worldcon]] in [[Chicago]], Patten as The Flash. He was a member of the [[ISL]]. ...[[Loscon XIV]] and [[Westercon 27]] as well as working on numerous other [[conventions]]. He was part of the planned [[Expo '81]]. He was a member of the [[PanPa
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• Lloyd Eshbach's Cinvention Reminiscence
  ...Kornbluth]], both [[SF]] writers, were then heading Transradio Press in [[Chicago]] and [[New York]], and each evening [[Dave Kyle|Dave]] phoned them reports ...SF]] weekends. It was unhurried, with none of the hectic pace of the later conventions. There were the usual speeches, [[Lester del Rey]] discussing "[[Sex]] and
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