Cicero Public Library

Cicero Census

The Town of Cicero: History, Advantages, and Government, by Walter Bishop Spelman, A.B.— Full text available to read online

Chicago Tribune’s Photo Gallery of Cicero, Illinois

What Was There: Historical Photos of Cicero Buildings

This American Life: Cicero

Hawthorne Works Museum @Morton College

The Hawthorne Plant

Company History of Western Electric

The Eastland Disaster Historical Society

The Eastland Disaster — WTTW Segments

The Eastland Disaster — Friends of Bohemian National Cemetery

The Eastland Disaster — Chicago Tribune 100th Anniversary Video

Morton East High School History: Morton Over the Years

T.G. Masaryk Czech School

This Day in History, July 11, 1951: Cicero Riot Over Housing Desegregation

Chicago Film Archive: Cicero March (1966)

Inkie.org offers free access to community collections on Chicagoland and Illinois history.

The Encyclopedia of Chicago contains history from libraries and museums around Chicago.

Illinois Digital Archive contains state and community histories from other Illinois libraries.

The Library of Congress also offers access to some historical Chicago directories.

The Cicero Public Library offers access to Ancestry for all in the library. The library also offers access to the Chicago Tribune online archives for all in the library and remotely for Cicero Public Library cardholders. To access these resources, please visit our online resources.

The library also has microfilm for the following newspapers:

Suburban Leader
March 2, 1927 – November 28, 1929 (incomplete, some issues missing)

Cicero Life
January 18, 1933 – March 29, 2013