In Perspective: The "New Cicero Community Center"

View a profile of the many activities, programs, and services that are now part of the daily routine at the Community Center and hear from Cicero residents of all ages who utilize the center as to their thoughts on the Center's impact on the town.




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Those are some of the reactions of Cicero residents to the New Cicero Community Center.

Since opening in December 2007, the center has become a hub of activity for residents of all ages.

Stopping by on a regular weekday morning, one finds:

The ladies of Cicero's Hispanic Senior Club enjoying a friendly game of Bingo while the gentlemen play Dominos;

Other senior residents in an arts & crafts class;

Grade school-aged children participating in a peer mentoring after-school program overseen by Corazon Community Services, a Cicero-based social services provider;

Cicero grammar school students playing chess in the center's courtyard as part of an innovative math and reading summer tutoring program; and

A baby yoga class that facilitates parental bonding between moms & toddlers.

The New Cicero Community Center is part of Town President Larry Dominick's vision for the New Cicero...and for telling a story about Cicero that few though could ever be told.

Dominick's story is about a Cicero that is a safe place to live and raise a family; a Cicero that works together as a community to meet the needs of its children and its seniors; a proud Cicero where residents care for one another and share with one another.

On the same ground where Western Electric once stood as the central organizing institution in Cicero for most of the 20th century, in the 21st century, in Larry Dominick's New Cicero, the New Cicero Community Center is that organizing place, that beating heart.

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