yet one more reason why berwyn is better than cicero

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http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/chi-0704120811apr13,1,4018111.story?coll=chi-news-hed



In this Cicero rat race, rodents hold their own

By Sara Olkon, Tribune staff reporter; Tribune researcher Brenda Kilianski contributed to this report
Published April 13, 2007


Rats -- they've been the scourge of Cicero for years. Cyanide gas couldn't get rid of them, so now the town is trying a lethal mix of birdseed and oatmeal laced with blood thinner. The animals gnaw, scamper and reek, and, some legends have it, attack people in broad daylight.

"I'm a little scared of them myself," joked Larry Dominick, Cicero's burly town president.

Dominick, like town presidents before him, made a campaign promise to control the rodents. Even with stepped-up eradication efforts since Dominick was elected in May 2005 -- the wily scavengers appear to have gained almost a mystical hold on the blue-collar town.

And despite recent reports that rats aren't the evil little monsters they sometimes appear to be -- scientists have shown they have the ability to giggle -- Cicero leaders aren't laughing: they want the rodents dead. The crackdown is so serious that town leaders recently voted to increase spending on rat control by 340 percent this year, to the tune of nearly three-quarters of a million dollars, an almost unheard-of amount for a town of Cicero's size.

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1. Only Cicero could have given us....

Betty Loren-Maltese.

I like Berwyn much better.

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2. i met betty one time

had a question about property taxes (my parents had a house in cicero at the time) and she walked out of the office and walked me through what i needed to do.

she was nice enough for a mobbed gangster broad.