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Place Name
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Cicero
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Place Status (Type)
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town
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Population
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67,436 (1990)
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Location
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Cook County, Illinois (IL), United States, North America
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Latitude
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41°50'N
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Longitude
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87°45'W
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Cicero
, town (1990 pop. 67,436), Cook co., NE Ill., an
industrial and residential suburb 11 mi/18 km
W of downtown Chicago; 41°50'N 87°45'W. Industry has been steadily
declining since the 1970s. Mfg. (foods, furniture, paper goods, dampers
and shutters, fabricated metal prods., signs; printing). Seat of Morton
Col. Sportsmans Race Track here. Site of civil-rights march through
blue-collar neighborhoods led by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (1967).
Once site of huge Western Electric factory, touted as a city within a
city, closed 1970s and since demolished. Al Capone lived here. Inc.
1867.
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