Chicago

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, 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! G.I. Joe vs. the Transformers II issue 1

The team soon attacked a group of gangsters who were using 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, who was not at all mode-locked, and he quickly activated his 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), and all the time-displaced combatants returned to their own time. G.I. Joe vs. the Transformers II issue 2

Panini Armada comic

When 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. Panini Armada issue 5

IDW Generation 1 comics

A counter-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

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 Decepticons sealed off the city.

Sam Witwicky headed there to rescue Carly with the help of the ex-NEST soldier Robert Epps and a few other ex-NEST comrades. After taking a look at the Decepticon-fortified Chicago, Robert Epps attempted to dissuade Sam from rescuing Carly. Soon afterward, a Decepticon Orbital Assault Carrier attacked the group. Fortunately for them, the supposedly dead Optimus Prime and the Autobots came to their rescue, with Optimus shooting down the carrier and the Wreckers Leadfoot, Topspin, and Roadbuster executing the pilot.

Optimus then explained why they had feigned departure; they needed to fool the world's leaders that they were gone, so they could see the truth behind the Decepticons. As the rest of the Autobots arrived on scene, Sam inquired as to how they survived, to which Roadbuster and Leadfoot explained that the Autobots hid in the boosters of their ship, the Xanthium, which splashed in the Atlantic, and then they traveled to Chicago from there. Wheelie and Brains then reiterated that Autobots would never leave Earth, and Optimus announced that they needed an element of surprise, to which Sam said he knew where to look.

Dark of the Moon

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

• Chicago at Wikipedia