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| − | == (1) The 1935 Club==
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| − | The '''CSFL''' (also known as '''TCSFL''') was founded in 1935 as chapter #14 of the [[SFL]], the club attracted members including founder [[Walter Dennis]], [[Paul McDermott]], [[Jack Darrow]], [[Allen Kline]], [[Arthur Hermann]], [[Otto Binder]], [[Earl Binder]], [[Jack Binder]], and [[William Dellenback]]. [[Sam Moskowitz]] called it "the outstanding chapter of the time."
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| − | Three of the members, Darrow, Binder, and Dellenback, planned to visit [[New York]] that summer to meet members of the New York chapter of the SFL. [[Charles D. Hornig]] planned a chapter meeting to take place at the offices of ''[[Wonder Stories]]'', but the [[Chicago]] delegates arrived a day late and missed the meeting, instead visiting with Hornig, [[Mort Weissinger]], and [[Julius Schwartz]]. Arguably, had this meeting happened, this would have been the [[first science fiction convention]].
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| − | The club published the [[clubzine]] ''[[The Fourteen Leaflet]]'' from November 1935 through Spring 1937. In 1937, it severed its ties with the [[SFL]] and renamed itself the '''Chicago Science Fiction Club''', but by the time the final issue was published, many club members had left Chicago and the club soon went dormant.
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| − | in the 1990, [[Las Vegas]] fans claimed control of the CSFL and this claim was not disputed. What ''they'' did with it is unknown.
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| − | == (2) The 1962 Club==
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| − | An entirely new club with the same name was formed around 1962 by [[Rosemary Hickey]] when the [[University of Chicago SF Club]] fell apart. The new version held monthly meetings on the first Saturday night of each month (except in months when a convention took place) at the home of [[Rosemary Hickey]] at 2020 North Mohawk Street and later at the home of [[George Price]].
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| − | At [[Chicon III]] in 1962, they sponsored an exhibition of the art of [[Richard M. Powers]] on the Saturday of the convention. The league compiled the exhibit separately from the [[con]] and paid rent on the room themselves, asking con-attendees for voluntary donations to offset the cost.
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| − | See also [[Chicago Science Fiction Society]].
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