It’s an area that might not seem to have much in common with Chicago, with its warm, salty waters, occasional shark sightings and the up-righted rockets that protrude from the landscape.
But Chicagoans are central to the history of Musk’s Texas “Starbase” property — where spaceships are assembled and SpaceX workers, including Musk, stay in an adjacent neighborhood of ranch-style homes or campers along streets lined with palm trees and, reflecting another of Musk’s business interests, electric-powered Tesla cars in some of the driveways.
