CICERO, a town of Cook county (Ill.), U.S.A., 7m. W. of the "Loop," and bounded by Chicago on the north, east, and south.
It is served by the Burlington, the Baltimore and Ohio, Chicago Terminal, the Belt of Chicago, and the Manufacturers' Junction railways. In 1900 the population was 16,310; in 1920 it was 44,995 (34.4% foreign-born white), and in 1930 it was 66,602 by Federal census. Cicero is an important industrial centre, manu facturing electrical equipment, pumps, engines, windmills, malle able iron castings and enamelled ware. The aggregate factory product in 1925 was valued at $175,000,000. The assessed valua tion of property was $13,761,734 in 1926. Cicero was settled about 1849, and was incorporated in 1867.