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Medical Emergency Causes Car Accident, One Fatality
CICERO (STMW) – A town employee was killed Thursday morning in a car crash in west suburban Cicero. Jacqueline Merkel, 56, of the 5100 block of W. 25th place in Cicero was pronounced dead at Mount...
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Jury Awards $650K To Fired Cicero Employee
CICERO, Ill. (STMW) — A federal jury Thursday awarded $650,000 in damages to a former Cicero town employee who claimed Town President Larry Dominick fired him in act of political retaliation. Merced...
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Report: Cicero Payroll Loaded With Town President’s Wife’s Family
CICERO, Ill. (CBS) — Cicero Town President Larry Dominick campaigned on a pledge to end nepotism, but now, a published report says he has put his wife and at least eight of her relatives on the public...
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Report: Cicero’s Dominick Gave Questionable Contract To Friend
CICERO, Ill. (CBS) — New allegations have surfaced about questionable practices by Cicero Town President Larry Dominick. As WBBM Newsradio’s Regine Schlesinger reports, the Chicago Sun-Times says an...
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Cicero’s Dominick Wins New Trial In Lawsuit By Fired Employee
CHICAGO (CBS) — A federal judge has granted Cicero and Town President Larry Dominick a new trial in a civil lawsuit. As WBBM Newsradio’s Bob Conway reports, the ruling comes six months after a jury...
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$500K For Fired Cicero Worker Who Alleged Harassment By Dominick
CICERO, Ill. (CBS) — The town of Cicero will be forking over $500,000 as part of a settlement to a former town worker. As WBBM Newsradio’s Bernie Tafoya reports, Sharon Starzyk had sued Cicero and Town...
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Walter’s Perspective: Cicero Clobbers Chicago In Clout And Corruption
CHICAGO (CBS) – With all that’s happening in Chicago, like the NATO summit and Mayor Rahm Emanuel running the city, it’s hard sometimes to keep up on the suburbs; like Cicero, and news there about...
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Cicero Residents Debate Ballot Eligibility Of Town President
CICERO (CBS) — Some Cicero residents spent their Sunday at the town’s board of elections hearing on whether their current president can remain on the ballot. play pause Cicero Residents Debate Ballot...
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Opponent Accuses Cicero President Of Intimidation
CICERO, Ill. (CBS) — Things are getting heated in Cicero, where Town President Larry Dominick is being accused of political intimidation. “Cicero is a throwback from the 1920s,” said Juan Ochoa. Ochoa...
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Gutierrez Accuses Dominick Of Intimidation In Cicero Election
CHICAGO (CBS) — Almost a week now before Election Day in Cicero, and there are allegations of voter intimidation. play pause Gutierrez Accuses Dominick Of Intimidation In Cicero Election WBBM...
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County Officials Will Scrutinize Cicero Election
CICERO, Ill. (CBS) – Tuesday morning, a lot of Cicero will be getting a lot of extra attention. Not just by voters electing their town president, but by investigators with several departments,...
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Dominick Easily Fends Off Challenge For Cicero Town President
CICERO, Ill. (CBS) – Cicero Town President Larry Dominick easily won his bid for re-election Tuesday in a contentious three-way contest marked by accusations of corruption, voter intimidation and...
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Cicero To Settle Sexual Harassment Case Against Dominick For $675K
CICERO, Ill. (STMW) – Cicero Town President Larry Dominick says he knows this much about sexual harassment: “You’re not supposed to touch ‘em, talk dirty, all kinds of stuff like that.” But despite...
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Cicero Town President Dominick Wins Court Battle Against Brother
CICERO, Ill. (CBS) — Cicero Town President Larry Dominick has won the latest round in the bitter, long-running battle with two of his brothers, one of whom alleged that he was fired from a town board...
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Pal Of Cicero President Larry Dominick Pleads Guilty To Tax Fraud
CHICAGO (STMW) — A pal of Cicero Town President Larry Dominick pleaded guilty Monday to dodging more than $400,000 in taxes. But plumber George Hunter — whose sewer business has received more than $1.8...
View ArticleActivists Demand Cicero Pass Welcoming Ordinance To Protect Immigrants
CHICAGO (CBS) — Immigration activists on Tuesday called on Cicero officials to pass an ordinance protecting undocumented immigrants from deportation, but local officials said state law already provides...
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