Overview
Chicago is the third largest city in the United States and the largest city in Illinois. The population is currently 3 million while the total population of the Chicago Metropolitan Area (known locally as Chicagoland) is 9.7 million. The Chicago Metropolitan Area consists of portions of Illinois, Wisconsin, and Indiana. Chicago is filled with many well-known skyscrapers, most notably the Willis Tower (formerly the Sears Tower). Chicago is bordered on the east by Lake Michigan, one of the five great lakes.
The city is the home of the sports teams Chicago Bears, Chicago White Sox, Chicago Bulls, Chicago Blackhawks and the Chicago Cubs.
Video gaming in Chicago
Between 1978 and 1994 the Summer Consumer Electronics Show, where many video game companies used to display new products, used to be held in Chicago
Video game appearances of Chicago
Chicago is mostly seen in sports games, featuring the many stadiums in Chicago. Chicago sports teams are also seen in many of the sports games. Other times Chicago plays an important role in non-sports video games. In the game, Rock Band, Chicago is one of the many cities that are in the game. Though, Rock band just shows a fictional venue in the city, but not the actual city it self. In I Am Alive, an upcoming survival game which takes place in a destroyed Chicago. Other than these two games, Chicago has been in Countless number of video games, whether it is sports games or a rhythmic type game.
Chicago appeared in Fallout Tactics: Brotherhood of Steel, a post-apocalyptic real-time/turn-based game, as a dilapidated husk of it's former self.
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