Books in Our Collection

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Cicero Demographics

Cicero Census

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Cicero History

Full text of The Town of Cicero: History, Advantages, and Government, by Walter Bishop Spelman, A.B.

Cicero, IL, Encyclopedia of Chicago

What Was There: Historical Photos of Cicero Buildings

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Western Electric & Hawthorne Works

Hawthorne Works Museum @Morton College

Western Electric History

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The Eastland Disaster

The Eastland Disaster Historical Society

WTTW Segments on the Eastland Disaster

The Eastland Disaster

Chicago Stories: The Eastland Disaster

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Miscellaneous

Morton East High School History: Morton Over the Years

The Cicero Flying Field

This American Life: Cicero

The Encyclopedia of Chicago

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Doing genealogy research?

The Cicero Public Library offers access to Heritage Quest for all in the library and remotely for Cicero Public Library cardholders and 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

Interested in Chicagoland and Illinois history?

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