Actually, there used to be a couple in Indiana. One in Carmel and the other on the West Side of Indianapolis. The Sichuan Restaurant in Carmel had a menu for Americans and a seperate menu for Chinese - I always ordered from the Chinese menu and the food was just like the stuff I used to eat when I lived in Chengdu.
The other restaurant was named Yummy Chinese. I only ate there one time and the food was really good. They had photos of Yao Ming on their wall from when he was in town to play against the Pacers.
Sadly, the Sichuan Restaurant only serves the Americanized Chinese food these days and the Yummy Chinese has long since closed. Now I would have to go to Chicago and I don't do Chicago.
Looks like you have proven the next sentence of my post:
“Midwest is about American Comfort Food, period. I am sure there is a stray immigrant somewhere in a city here an there that manages to stay in business being authentic, but they are insanely rare.”