Blue Collars in Cicero

Cicero, Illinois, population 69,130, is a town with a sordid past and a troubled future. Cicero adjoins the City of Chicago on its West Side, and during a rare reform administration in Chicago it was the site to which Al Capone retrenched during the 1920s till the heat was off in the city. There in Cicero, just across the city line, Capone set up new headquarters, and it wasn’t long before his operation was rolling in earnest. Girls, gambling, bootleg booze, name your action, Cicero had...