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Cicero is an incorporated town in Cook County, Illinois, named after Marcus Tullius Cicero, the Roman statesman and orator, and incorporated on February 28, 1867.

Cicero was originally known as Hawthorne, and old Cicero Township once covered six times the town's current area — Oak Park and Berwyn were carved out of it, and the Austin neighborhood was annexed into Chicago.

With 85,268 residents at the 2020 census, Cicero is the 11th-most populous municipality in Illinois, packed into just 5.86 square miles.

More than 89% of Cicero's population was Hispanic or Latino in the 2020 census, making it the most Hispanic municipality in the state of Illinois.

The 2020 census counted 24,260 households in Cicero, nearly half of them home to children under the age of 18.

After building his criminal empire in Chicago, Al Capone moved his operations to Cicero to escape Chicago police, and the town's 1924 municipal elections were notoriously violent as gangs fought to secure a favorable result.

Capone's sister Mafalda married in 1930 at Cicero's St. Mary of Czestochowa, a Neo-Gothic church built in the Polish Cathedral style that remains one of the town's landmarks.

Cicero was a factory town built around Western Electric's Hawthorne Works, which at its early-20th-century peak employed more than 40,000 workers; a single surviving tower still stands behind the Hawthorne Works Shopping Center at Cermak Road and Cicero Avenue.

By 1911 Cicero had its own aerodrome, the Cicero Flying Field, where pioneer-era aviators flew before the field closed in the spring of 1916.

On July 11–12, 1951, Cicero was the scene of a race riot in which a mob of about 4,000 attacked an apartment building housing the African-American family of CTA bus driver Harvey Clark Jr., forcing Governor Adlai Stevenson to call out the Illinois National Guard.