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The city of Ilium is distinct from Schenectady in Player Piano (1952), Cat's Cradle (1963), and Slaughterhouse-Five (1969). In those novels, characters refer to Schenectady as a separate place. [citation needed] It also could be a reference to Ilion, NY because of the similar spelling and that Ilium may have been the intended name for the town ...
Troy's Latin motto is Ilium fuit, Troja est, which means "Ilium was, Troy is". [a] Northern and Western New York was a theater of the War of 1812, and militia and regular army forces were led by Stephen Van Rensselaer of Troy. Quartermaster supplies were shipped through Troy.
The Ilium Building is a building located at the northeast corner of Fulton Street and Fourth Street in Troy, New York, United States. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on August 13, 1970, and since 1986 has also been a contributing property to the Central Troy Historic District .
Ilium Building: Ilium Building: December 18, 1970 : Northeast corner of Fulton and 4th Sts. Troy: Intact 1904 Marcus F. Cummings commercial building [21] 61: International Shirt and Collar Company: International Shirt and Collar Company
Ilium, New York Kurt Vonnegut: Various works It is considered a stand-in for the actual cities of Schenectady and Troy, New York. Featured or referenced in Vonnegut's novels Cat's Cradle, Slaughterhouse-Five, Player Piano, and Galápagos. Imrryr, Melniboné Michael Moorcock: The Dreaming City
In early novels, Kilgore Trout lives in Ilium, New York, a fictional town whose name is based on Troy, New York (Illium was the Roman name for ancient Troy and Vonnegut lived and worked in nearby Schenectady for some time). In later novels, Trout inhabits a basement apartment in Cohoes, an ailing mill community.
With the exception of 2012, Schenectady's Guyana-born population has had a year-over-year increase every year since 2010, when there were 2,605 city residents born in Guyana.
Schenectady (/ s k ə ˈ n ɛ k t ə d i / skə-NEK-tə-dee) [2] [3] is a city in Schenectady County, New York, United States, of which it is the county seat. As of the 2020 census , the city's population of 67,047 made it the state's ninth-most populous city and the twenty-fifth most-populous municipality. [ 4 ]