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I never knew Cicero was a suburb of Chicago until recently. I was watching the pilot of Better Call Saul, and at one point Jimmy McGill tells the story of "Slippin' Jimmy from Cicero, Illinois" - which of course made me think of the character from The Bear (and then I discovered it's a neighborhood).
Any native Chicagoans have any insight? Did you assume from the get-go that he has some affiliation with Cicero, IL? I don't think they ever explicitly say on the show that Jimmy is from Cicero or tied to the place in anyway - in the episode that takes place at his house, Carmy and Richie say he recently moved from Naperville to Wilmette. But a lot of the character development on this show is very subtly implied, so I'm not sure if I'm missing anything (I've only been to Chicago a couple times in my life). Would be interested to hear your guys' perspectives.
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funnily enough most of the mob moved to Oak Park and away from Cicero. The Accardo family and its associates had underground tunnels linking all of them in the area.