Chicago
- Chicago is an Earthen city in the Generation 1 and Unicron Trilogy continuity families.
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 continuity
When the Teletraan 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 Comics continuity
A counter-infiltration unit under Prowl's command parked their vessel, the Ark-19, beneath Lake Michigan, some ten miles northwest of Chicago.
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.
