The Cicero Town Hall building at 4949 W. Cermak Road suffered extensive damage to the front façade of the building when it was struck by a truck involved in a car accident at 50th Avenue and Cermak Road Saturday morning around 9:30 am. Cicero Police Chief Jerry Chlada said that the 57-year-old driver of the late model Dodge Pickup truck ran a red light at Cermak Road and 50th Avenue heading south, and then struck a Nissan that was traveling eastbound on Cermak Road.

The pickup truck careened through the intersection and slammed into a traffic light and then crashed into the corner of the entrance of Cicero Town Hall. Chlada said there were no serious injuries despite the intensity of the accident to either the drivers or to members of the public who were at the building. Both drivers of the two vehicles declined medical attention. The driver of the pickup truck was charged with failure to stop at a red light, failure to yield to oncoming traffic, failure to reduce speed to avoid an accident, and two citations for damage caused to public property including the traffic light and the Cicero Town Hall building. Town officials had not yet put an estimate on the damage to the state-of-the-art 3-story municipal building which is the hub of a complex of community services including a free public parking garage, a community center constructed in 2007.