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Cicero

City in Cook County, northeast Illinois; population (1990) 67,400. It is located 11 km/7 mi west of Chicago, and is an important industrial and residential suburb. One-fourth of Cicero's area contains one of the world's largest concentrations of industrial activity, with over 150 factories in an area of 4.5 sq km/1.75 sq mi. Communications and electronic equipment are the most important products, followed by malleable and steel castings, tool and die makers' supplies, forgings, and rubber goods. It also has large paper plants and some printing presses. Cicero is home to Morton College (1924).

Settled in the 1830s, Cicero grew slowly until the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad arrived in 1864. A population boom ensued, and the Hawthorne works of the Westinghouse Electric Company were established here in 1902, soon becoming the largest local employer. During the 1920s, Cicero served as Al Capone's headquarters for his gambling enterprise. Two horse racing tracks, Hawthorne Racecourse-Suburban Downs and Sportsman's Park Racetrack, are in the city.



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The mate of the Cicero was seeing his friend on board.
The Mirror of the Sea by Conrad, Joseph View in context
Of this state hear what Cicero saith: Quam volumus licet, patres conscripti, nos amemus, tamen nec numero Hispanos, nec robore Gallos, nec calliditate Poenos, nec artibus Graecos, nec denique hoc ipso hujus gentis et terrae domestico nativoque sensu Italos ipsos et Latinos; sed pietate, ac religione, atque hac una sapientia, quod deorum immortalium numine omnia regi gubernarique perspeximus, omnes gentes nationesque superavimus.
The Essays by Bacon, Sir Francis View in context
As Garrick, whom I regard in tragedy to be the greatest genius the world hath ever produced, sometimes condescends to play the fool; so did Scipio the Great, and Laelius the Wise, according to Horace, many years ago; nay, Cicero reports them to have been "incredibly childish.
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