Roofs From a Glass-Factory Town to a Reservoir Shoreline
Cicero's oldest roofs sit over a town core shaped by an 1853 railroad arrival that brought flour mills, a sawmill, and two natural-gas glass factories. When the town's landmark Red Bridge was torn down in the early 1950s to make way for Morse Reservoir, which opened in 1956, a new wave of lakefront homes began going up, with roofline styles and exposure that read very differently from the older industrial-era streets.
Age-Related Wear Versus Water Exposure
We inspect Cicero's older in-town roofs for age-related wear tied to that 19th-century core, while lakefront homes near Morse Reservoir get evaluated more for wind and moisture exposure off the water.