Chicago

2011-07-22T14:49:06Z

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[[Image:Otfcc2003-cryotekvschicago.jpg|right|300px|thumb|The huge piles of ice are pretty much par for the course. The giant blue dragon, not so much.]]
'''Chicago''' is the biggest city in the American Midwest. It's full of gangsters, corrupt politicians, and, on occasion, robots.

==Fiction==
===''G.I. Joe vs. the Transformers''===
When the [[Teletran 3]] supercomputer went berserk and blasted random Transformers into random points in Earth's timestream, teams of Cobras and G.I. Joe troops pursued them. One such group, consisting of the [[Baroness]], [[Percy]], [[Roadblock (G.I. Joe)|Roadblock]], and [[Beachhead]], materialized in a dingy, dirty, dark city, and narrowly avoided getting run over by two cars full of mugs shooting tommy guns at each other. They'd landed in Prohibition-era Chicago! {{storylink|G.I. Joe vs. the Transformers II issue 1}}

The team soon attacked a group of gangsters who were using [[Optimus Prime (G1)|Optimus Prime]] as a truck. Freeing him, they next tracked down the gangsters' boss, the notorious [[Tommy Fingers]]. Fingers's favored watering hole was a jazz club that he owned; the next four Transformers were located in a garage out back.

Through the Baroness's efforts, the team learned that Fingers was planning a bank heist, using a dynamite-loaded truck which just happened to be the last of the missing Transformers. Unfortunately for the humans, one of the four garage-bound Transformers was [[Breakdown (G1)|Breakdown]], who was not at all mode-locked, and he quickly activated his [[Stunticon (G1)|Stunticon]] compatriots. Optimus Prime and the humans fled from the Stunticons in a running firefight through Chicago's streets; the humans blasted down a suspension bridge along the way.

Coming up on the last Transformer, the Baroness blasted the dynamite, activated the Transformer ([[Motormaster (G1)|Motormaster]]), and all the time-displaced combatants returned to their own time. {{storylink|G.I. Joe vs. the Transformers II issue 2}}

===Panini ''Armada'' comic===
When [[Starscream (Armada)|Starscream]] wanted to draw out the [[Air Defense Mini-Con Team]] for capture, he blasted a satellite out of orbit. The Mini-Con trio managed to stop the falling satellite from smashing into downtown Chicago's forest of skyscrapers a mere ten seconds before impact, then carried it away and dropped it into [[Lake Michigan]]. {{storylink|Panini Armada issue 5|Panini Armada issue 5}}

===IDW Generation 1 comics===
A counter-[[Infiltration protocol|infiltration]] unit under Prowl's command parked their vessel, the ''[[Ark-19]]'', beneath [[Lake Michigan]], some ten miles northwest of Chicago.

===Live-action film series===
[[Image:DarkoftheMoon-Chicago.jpg|right|thumb|300px|Bad Cryotek! Very bad Cryotek!]]
After taking [[Carly Spencer]] captive, [[Dylan Gould]] headed to Chicago. [[Sentinel Prime]] also headed to Chicago to set up few of the space bridge pillars. A huge portion of the city's population was slaughtered when the Deceptacons sealed off the city. {{storylink|Dark of the Moon (film)|Dark of the Moon}}
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==Notes==
* Out here in the real world, Chicago has twice played host to the official Transformers convention, as [[OTFCC 2003]] and [[OTFCC 2004]] both occurred there.
* Chicago also hosts the annual Wizard World Chicago convention, which frequently features a Hasbro Transformers display booth similar to what's seen at [[BotCon]].
* Chicago is also a filming location for ''[[Dark of the Moon]]''. Shooting commenced July 10 and continued through August 19, 2010.

==External link==
*[[wikipedia:Chicago|Chicago]] at Wikipedia

[[Category:Armada locations]]
[[Category:Cities in the United States]]
[[Category:Dark of the Moon locations]]
[[Category:Generation 1 cities]]

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