Chicago was a large city located in the state of Illinois in the Earth nation-state the United States of America. It was located on the southwestern edge of Lake Michigan. In the late 20th and early 21st centuries, Chicago was considered a "well-rounded global city".[1]
It was home to the University of Chicago. (Star Trek: False Vacuum: "Dear Sixteen-Year-Old Me")
History[]
20th century[]
The Jackson Center for Archaeology was located in Chicago. (Star Trek: Pendragon)
21st century[]
In the Pendragon timeline, Chicago was hit by one or more nuclear devices in a nuclear exchange during World War III in 2053. (Star Trek: Pendragon)
- It is unclear whether Chicago was hit the same way in the Cantabrian timeline. (Star Trek: The Cantabrian Expeditions: "White Flag")
23rd century[]
By the Mid-2250s some Chicago star-fleet officers helped the construction of the USS Enterprise in Iowa.(Citation needed)
24th century[]
Richard Boswell was born in Chicago in 2335. (Star Trek: Remington)
Daniel Radke was born in Chicago in 2338. (Star Trek: The Prospect Chronicles; Star Trek: Shabonee; Star Trek: The Cantabrian Expeditions).
Chicago had a Starfleet Medical facility in the downtown area. In 2366 and 2367, counselors Daniel Radke, Richard Whitby, future USS Excelsior counselor Myra Elbrey, Rose Hamelin and several others helped keep the peace in the city during the Borg crisis. (Star Trek: The Prospect Chronicles: "The Burnt Child") These same counselors were some of the counseling staff dealing with survivors and the families of victims of the Battle of Wolf 359. Three patients included Benjamin Sisko, his son Jake, and Corey Aster, who lost his parents. (Star Trek: The Cantabrian Expeditions: "Dream a Little Dream of Me")
In 2350’s, Samanthan Rutherford is born in Chicago.(Citation needed)
At some point prior to the year 2380, Carol Freeman and Durango served together aboard the Illinois. (Moist Vessel)
- Freeman states that she has known that Durango is boring for 15 years, which indicates their service together began in the mid-2360s decade and that date is potentially when they served on the Illinois.
From at least 2366 until mid-2367, Radke lived in Chicago, with his then-husband Jason Athelstan, and worked for Starfleet Medical's Chicago branch as a counselor. (Star Trek: The Prospect Chronicles: "The Burnt Child"; Star Trek: The Cantabrian Expeditions: "Dream a Little Dream of Me")
There was an office of Starfleet Command located in Chicago. Commander-in-Chief Thomas Crowe was known to prefer his office in Chicago, as he liked the cold weather. (Star Trek: Remington)
By 2380, Lieutenant Barbara Brinson once participated in a time travel mission to 1920s Chicago, during which she was able to reboot the time stream by reversing the polarity.(Citation needed)
By 2382, The city of Chicago starts laying out plans and design to build a second Federation Headquarters in the Alpha Quadrant. This headquarters will be the successor after San Francisco.(Citation needed).
In the late 24th century, Starfleet officers on the planet Solum met first contact with the Vau N'Akat. Fifty years later, the planet had descended into civil war over whether to pursue relations with aliens, which resulted in the fall of their civilization and the near-extinction of the species. An individual calling himself "The Diviner", who believed himself to be the last of the Vau N'Akat, traveled back in time to the 2360s with a plan to stop First Contact and prevent the war.(Citation needed)
Chicago by the year 2384, The USS Protostar was built for the federation but will later be used in Star Trek: Prodigy.(Citation needed)
25th century[]
The Dome Depot was built in the Far North Side of Chicago in the early 25th century as the city's hussade stadium, operated by Northwestern University. (Star Trek: False Vacuum: "Thesis Dilemma")
Suburbs[]
Batavia[]
Batavia is a western suburb of Chicago. Radke wanted to take de Gaillimhe for a romantic dinner on the Fox River, running through the town, in the mid-2350s. (Star Trek: The Cantabrian Expeditions: "White Flag")
Des Plaines[]
Des Plaines is a northwest suburb of Chicago, named after the Des Plaines River and city southeast to Mount Prospect. The USS Des Plaines was named for the river and shared its name with the city. (Star Trek: The Prospect Chronicles)
Evanston[]
Evanston is a northern suburb of Chicago whose west borders Skokie and south borders the city itself. Estelle Chanteclerc, a sheirl playing hussade for Quendelton State University, attended Northwestern University for her physics PhD, located in that city. (Star Trek: False Vacuum: "Thesis Dilemma")
Geneva[]
Geneva is a western suburb of Chicago. Radke wanted to take de Gaillimhe for a romantic dinner on the Fox River, running through the town, in the mid-2350s. (Star Trek: The Cantabrian Expeditions: "White Flag")
Mount Prospect[]
Mount Prospect is a northwest suburb of Chicago, northwest of Des Plaines. Daniel Radke was raised in Mount Prospect, about 22 miles from downtown Chicago. (Star Trek: The Cantabrian Expeditions: "White Flag")
Saint Charles[]
Saint Charles is a western suburb of Chicago. Radke wanted to take de Gaillimhe for a romantic dinner on the Fox River, running through the town, in the mid-2350s. (Star Trek: The Cantabrian Expeditions: "White Flag")
Shorewood[]
Shorewood is a southwest suburb of Chicago. In 2367, Helen Aster lived in Shorewood with her grandchildren Corey and Jeremy Aster. (Star Trek: The Cantabrian Expeditions: "Dream a Little Dream of Me")
Skokie[]
Skokie is a northern suburb of Chicago whose east borders Evanston and southeast and southwest borders the city itself. On 2 November 2221, Pauline Lennon was born there. (Star Trek: The Intrepid Adventures)
Namesake colonies[]
- Chicago was also the name of a major Federation industrial world settled by people from Earth. (Star Fleet Universe: Gazetteer Based on F&E Map, 14 August 2012 revision)
- There were at least two off-world colonies named New Chicago: one on Mars and one on Cestus III.
Starships[]
- USS Chicago (NCC-1651)
- USS Chicago (NCC-2738)
- USS Chicago (NCC-34055) - Istanbul-class cruiser
- USS Chicago (NCC-75011) - Sovereign-class heavy cruiser
External links[]
- Chicago article at Memory Alpha, the canon Star Trek wiki.
- Chicago article at Memory Beta, the non-canon Star Trek wiki.
- Chicago article at Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
References[]
- ↑ Global city article at Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.