page_title: Hawthorne Works
section_title: Hawthorne Works Museum
hierarchical_section_title: Hawthorne Works / Hawthorne Works Museum
caption_attribution_description: English: The last vestige of the w:en:Hawthorne Works plant in Cicero, Illinois.
context_page_description: The Hawthorne Works was a large factory complex of the Western Electric Company in Cicero, Illinois. Named after the original name of the town, Hawthorne, it opened in 1905 and operated until 1983. At its peak of operations, Hawthorne employed 45,000 workers, producing large quantities of telephone equipment, but also a wide variety of consumer products.
  The facility is well-known for the industrial studies held there in the 1920s and the Hawthorne effect is named for the works.
context_section_description: The Hawthorne Works Museum, operated by Morton College, tells the story of the Hawthorne Works facility - its products and its employees.  Exhibits show Western Electric products, such as telephones, communications  and electronics equipment, inventions by Bell Laboratories, local immigrant workers and local history.
caption: The last vestige of the Hawthorne Works.  This tower can be seen in the center-left of the aerial view (above).
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