Remote site monitoring in Cicero

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A factory town built around the BNSF yard

Cicero grew up as a factory town: by the late 1990s the community packed more than 150 factories into roughly 1.7 miles, and the Hawthorne Works plant alone once employed more than 40,000 people. That industrial base is still served by rail and road today. BNSF's Cicero Intermodal Terminal covers more than 250 acres and connects directly to I-55 and I-290, the Eisenhower Expressway, while the Belt Railway of Chicago's freight lines also run through town on their way to the Clearing Yard just to the south.

Businesses that handle cash or goods on-site have had a rough run in Cicero. A Chicago Sun-Times investigation found more than two dozen burglaries at Cicero video gambling locations between January 1 and June 16, 2026, part of a statewide pattern of 473 such burglaries and about $2.7 million stolen in 2025 alone, often carried out by crews using sledgehammers to smash through glass doors overnight. A warehouse or commercial yard left unwatched overnight is exposed to that same style of smash-and-grab.

At a Cicero property, agents watch every camera live around the clock, so a break-in in progress gets a response while it's happening, not the next morning. AI person and vehicle detection flags movement after hours, an agent checks the live video and gives a live, instant talk-down through the site's speakers, and police are called with video evidence. Gate Operations can also manage who comes and goes from a trucking terminal or commercial lot.

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