Norwood Park is one of 77 well defined Chicago, Illinois community areas. It is a middle-class neighborhood on the far Northwest Side of Chicago, Illinois. Named after Henry Ward Beecher's novel Norwood, or Village Life in New England (1868), it is home to many of the city's firefighters, police officers, and other blue collar workers. Norwood Park is known especially for its abundance of green: lawns, parks, churchyards, and trees are its visual hallmarks. It is also among the most ethnically homogeneous - and Republican - of all Chicago communities.
Every Memorial Day there is a parade that runs through Norwood Park. The parade has been a local tradition for more than 80 years, starting in 1922. The community area also boasts the oldest extant building in Chicago, the Noble-Seymour-Crippen House.
Serial killer John Wayne Gacy, who hid the bodies of 28 young men under his house before being arrested in 1978, lived in an unincorporated area of Norwood Park Township which is adjacent to the Norwood Park neighborhood.
Norwood Park is a community of the city of Chicago, and is not a part of or near the Township of Norwood Park. 2 different communities and only Norwood Park is in the city limits of Chicago
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Park Ridge, Illinois |
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