Cicero

For as I turned eagerly through the pages of history, I was astonished to discover these words.

Prior to 1970, the grounds of St. James, and particularly the entranceway, were quite open, but several years ago we were able to obtain the magnificent main gate of the Hawthorne plant of Western Electric in Cicero, Illinois.

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That plant was the place of work of the hundreds of men and women who perished with their families in the horrific Eastland disaster of 1915, when the Eastland steamer tipped over on the Chicago River just prior to its departure on the Western Electric Company's picnic cruise.

Despite his personal distaste for prohibition, he enforced it.

So Al set his sights on opportunities for growth in the suburbs, starting with Cicero.

It only made him seem to be a much stronger criminal leader.

By expanding into the suburbs, he was really able to seal up Chicago lock, stock, and barrel for his own.

Cicero was made to order for Capone's gang.

It was a working-class bedroom community of 60,000 where bribery worked like a charm.

From suburban headquarters at the Hawthorne Hotel, Al cut deals with local officials to operate beer and gambling joints.

To keep his power base, Capone rigged the Cicero election.

And the breakthrough came from a single overlooked ledger.

During a raid on the Hawthorne Smoke Shop, which was a massive gambling front in Cicero, Illinois, investigators seized a cache of documents.

And Capone wasn't even there.

It was just a front.

Uh-uh.

Cicero.

Lip

shits.

Squish.

Uh-uh.

Cicero.

Lip shits.

Atlanta, Illinois is really the perfect place for this museum, and it's really neat how the chips fell where they did.

But there was already a hot dog guy here, and a lot of people would stop to see him, and he has history up in Cicero.

And so it was a natural fit.

It's just a neat, quaint little Route 66 roadside, mid-Illinois town.

A devastating act of violence on Chicago's transit system leaves a family shattered.

29-year-old Kyle Bickham was returning home from his shift at an Amazon warehouse in Cicero, Illinois, around 2:30 PM on Monday, September 7th.

According to Chicago police, Bickham was aboard a CTA train when three individuals approached him.

Investigators say the suspects used force to push Bickham off the moving train.

They run through a list of preliminary questions.

Any handicaps, number of children, any felonies, current employment at, say, Motorola in Cicero.

All questions designed to establish authority and gather innocuous data.

Right.

Do you have a preference as to what bank you would like the funds deposited in?

And the subject, assuming this is an official government function, just immediately names their bank.

First National Bank of Cicero.

And just like that, you have it.

This is the story of Laura K. Goy's lifelong experiences with extraterrestrials.

Laura originally lived in Cicero, Illinois.

And in 1966, she was just a young teenager, 13, 14 years old.

And this is when she had a really profound UFO encounter.