Page Contents 1. Chicago in 2012 Bid
2. Chicon 2000
3. Chicon V
4. Chicon IV
5. Chicon 3
6. TASFIC
7. Chicon 1

Chicon History

An Introduction

Chicon 7 is (not surprisingly!) the seventh Worldcon to be held in Chicago.

The very first was held as long ago as 1940 - just the second Worldcon ever, following the first Worldcon in New York in 1939 - and featured E. E. "Doc" Smith as Guest of Honor, with just over 100 members in attendance.

Since then, Chicago has hosted the Worldcon approximately once every 10 years, settling on the Hyatt Regency Hotel as a natural home.

On the rest of this page you'll find links to scans of the Souvenir Books and some other items from the previous Chicago Worldcons.

Number - Year Name	Site	Guest(s)	Chairman	Attend.
2 - Chicon I 1-2 Sep 1940	Hotel Chicagoan	E. E. "Doc" Smith	Mark Reinsberg	128
10 - TASFiC 30 Aug - 1 Sep 1952	Hotel Morrison	Hugo Gernsback	Julian C. May	870
20 - Chicon III 31 Aug-3 Sep 1962	Pick-Congress Hotel	Theodore Sturgeon	Earl Kemp	730 / 830
40 - Chicon IV 2-6 Sep 1982	Hyatt Regency Chicago	A. Bertram Chandler (pro) Frank Kelly Freas (pro) Lee Hoffman (fan)	Ross Pavlac Larry Propp	4,275
49 - Chicon V 29 Aug-2 Sep 1991	Hyatt Regency Chicago	Hal Clement (pro) Martin H. Greenberg (pro) Richard Powers (pro) Jon & Joni Stopa (fan)	Kathleen Meyer	5,661
58 - Chicon 2000 31 Aug-4 Sep 2000	Hyatt Regency Chicago Fairmont Hotel Swissôtel	Ben Bova (author) Bob Eggleton (artist) Jim Baen (editor) Bob & Anne Passovoy (fan)	Tom Veal	5,794 / 6,574
70 - Chicon 7 30 Aug-3 Sep 2012	Hyatt Regency Chicago	Mike Resnick (author) Peggy Rae Sapienza (fan) Story Musgrave (astronaut) Jane Frank (agent) Rowena Morrill (artist)	Dave McCarty