Editing Cicero, Illinois (section)

==In popular culture==
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*In the HBO series ''[[Boardwalk Empire]]'', Cicero is the home of Al Capone. Many of the episode plots are based in Cicero.
*Cicero is mentioned as the hometown of [[Saul Goodman|Jimmy McGill/Saul Goodman]] and his brother [[Chuck McGill]] in ''[[Better Call Saul]]''. Cicero is also the central location of the animated spinoff show [[Slippin' Jimmy]],  which is based on Jimmy's youth.
*In the musical [[Chicago (musical)|''Chicago'']], Velma Kelly mentions Cicero in the number "[[Cell Block Tango]]" as the location of the hotel where she murdered her husband Charlie and sister Veronica.
*In [[Walker Percy|Walker Percy's]] novel ''[[Love in the Ruins]]'', the schismatic American Catholic church establishes Cicero, Illinois as its "new Rome."
*In [[Bertolt Brecht]]'s ''[[The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui]]'', Cicero is annexed by Chicago as a [[satire|satirical]] [[allegory]] for the [[Anschluss|Nazi annexation of Austria]].
*In ''[[Guys and Dolls]]'', the Chicago-area gangster "Big Julie" claims to be from "East Cicero, Illinois" (and pronounces the final "s" on Illinois).
*In the 1948 film noir ''[[Sorry, Wrong Number]]'', the story takes place in New York City but in flash-backs recounted by several characters we learn that the story actually begins in Chicago and Cicero.  The female character Leona Cotterel (Barbara Stanwyck) is the rich, spoiled daughter of the owner of a pharmaceutical company located in Cicero.  She lives with her father in a Chicago mansion.  A few years later, after she marries, the story moves to Bayonne, New Jersey, and ends in Manhattan and Staten Island.
*Al Bundy from the show ''[[Married... with Children]]'' mentions that he gets his hair cut in Cicero.
*In the song "Guns Under the Counter" by [[The Fiery Furnaces]] (from their album ''[[Rehearsing My Choir]]''), Cicero is mentioned in the line "In Cicero, Never stand at a window".