Cicero Wedding

Cicero is an incorporated town in Cook County, Illinois, United States. The population was 85,616 at the 2000 census. A 2003 Census estimate showed the population dipped to 83,029. Cicero is named for the town of Cicero, New York, which in turn was named for Marcus Tullius Cicero, the Roman orator.

Originally, Cicero occupied six times its current territory. Weak political leadership and town services resulted in towns such as Oak Park, Illinois and Berwyn, Illinois voting to split off from Cicero, and other portions such as Austin were annexed into the city of Chicago [1]

Al Capone built his criminal empire in Chicago before moving to Cicero to escape the reach of Chicago police. The town features in The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui, a play by Bertolt Brecht which compares the Chicago gangsters and the rise to power of Adolf Hitler.