The Town of Cicero voluntarily enrolled Phil Fuentes Ability Park into the Illinois EPA’s site remediation program, meaning ...

Judith Landeros is 35 and has lived in Cicero for almost all of her life. Cicero’s rail yards, factories and warehouses — with names like Kropp Forge, Corey Steel and Koppers — have been around for so ...

Roberto is a 17-year-old resident of Cicero, Illinois, who is on track to graduate after this summer and will be the first in his family to earn a high school diploma. His mother describes Roberto, ...

He came back in a box. A wooden coffin wrapped in cardboard, the kind used to protect freight. Eighteen years after leaving, that was how Silverio Villegas González returned to Michoacán. The plane ...

Este artículo se publicó originalmente en South Side Weekly. Regresó en una caja. En un ataúd de madera envuelto en cartón, de los que se usan para proteger la mercancía. Dieciocho años después de su ...

Throughout Cicero more and more trees have been removed by the Public Works department leaving behind mulch, wood chips, dirt and in some cases leaving behind stumps for weeks. Cicero Independiente ...

This summer, after a century of history, fine steaks and community, the Klas Restaurant on Cermak was demolished, and I can’t help but feel that a piece of Cicero went down with it. With its ornate ...

Communities of color are becoming more vulnerable to the growing trend of alternative energy supplier scams, according to a new report. The findings show that majority Black neighborhoods experience ...

In this bilingual collaboration with ¿Qué pasa, Midwest?, we explore how the Latinx community in Cicero and Berwyn practice their first amendment right to free speech and whether this right is ...

Although the pandemic has altered everyday life and changed monumental highlights for youth such as attending prom or crossing the graduation stage, these students, now high school graduates, have ...

In mid-January, at a non-descript YMCA in Berwyn, a secret meeting was held by the publicly-traded chemicals company Koppers and a group of seven elected officials and employees of the nearby village ...

Koppers is a chemical plant on the south side of Pershing Road, on the border between Cicero and Stickney. The plant opened in 1922 and has operated in Cicero for more than 100 years. It converts ...