A lot of people when it comes to tornados tend to believe that because Chicago has so many big skyscrapers that it affects the flow of air to the point where tornados won't form. While it is true that the skyscrapers in Chicago do disrupt the create different airflows in the immediate vacinity they are not enough to stop tornadoes. Chicago will be hit by and has also been hit by tornados but the ones that do don't tend to be that catastrophic usually. Although they don't tend to be catastrophic there have been some that have been. Specifically, there was one in 1967 that went through the oak lawn that killed 33 and injured 500 also causing 250 million dollars in damage using today's money.
https://www.wbez.org/shows/curious-city/chicagos-tornadoproof-delusion/07f3d6cc-3669-4ec6-80a0-d3fef840d478
"a historical timeline and a map are not enough to answer the question, consider first-person accounts. Here’s just one example. On April 21, 1967, a tornado hit the south side of Chicago. It tore across the Dan Ryan Expressway during rush hour, tipped a tractor-trailer, and then spun out over Lake Michigan. That storm is known as the Oak Lawn Tornado, named for the village that bore the brunt of that storm’s devastation. And that village is not a far-flung suburb. It’s right on the city’s southwestern border, sandwiched between the neighborhood of Beverly and Midway airport."
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