Cicero, Illinois

Cicero, United States

Cicero, Illinois connects to 3729 places across 14 topics through 45 Bunkabop connections, with government and transportation as the two dominant topic clusters. The town's proximity to Chicago made it a target for the Chicago Outfit's attempted takeover in the 1920s, an episode that also drew the North Side Gang's assassination attempts on Al Capone at his Cicero hotel. Civil rights marches in the 1960s reached Cicero as a sundown town, contributing to pressure that helped pass the Civil Rights Act of 1968. The BNSF Railway's commuter line ties Cicero to Chicago's Union Station today.