Garages From an Industrial Rail Town to a Lakefront Boom
Cicero's oldest streets date to an 1834 founding and an 1853 railroad boom that brought flour mills, a sawmill, and two glass factories — long before the attached garage was standard equipment. That changed with Morse Reservoir, which opened in 1956 after the town's Red Bridge landmark was removed to make way for it, bringing a wave of lakefront homes built with garages as a default feature.
Old Town Core Versus Lakefront Growth
We see older, sometimes detached or converted garage setups in Cicero's original town core, and standard modern attached garages in the town's Morse Reservoir lakefront growth.