Ilium (Kurt Vonnegut)
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Ilium is a fictitious town in eastern New York state, used as a setting for many of Kurt Vonnegut's novels.
The name most likely refers to Troy, New York, which is not far from Schenectady, where Vonnegut worked for a number of years. "Ilium" was the Roman name for Troy. However, Player Piano (1952) places Ilium southeast of Albany and Rensselaer, probably within Albany County near what is today Interstate 90. Troy, by contrast, is north (and somewhat east) of those two locations.
North of Albany, on the same railway line, is Cohoes, longtime residence of Vonnegut's character Kilgore Trout.