Norwood Park is one of the 77 Chicago community areas. It encompasses the smaller neighborhoods of Big Oaks, Norwood Park East, Norwood Park West, Old Norwood Park, Oriole Park, and Union Ridge. The community area contains the oldest extant building in Chicago, the Noble–Seymour–Crippen House, built in 1833 and greatly expanded in 1868. [2]

The 16.23-acre Norwood Park boasts the Chicago Park District's only outdoor swimming pool on the North Side with a water slide, making it a favorite destination for summer day camps and young swimmers in the neighborhood.

Norwood Park was designed to be a park-like residential suburb with large lots, wide streets, and elegant single-family homes. One unusual feature is its curvilinear street pattern. A 1907 real estate sales brochure described Norwood Park as a place with “…proper living conditions, fresh air and sunshine, good surroundings, a healthy ...

Construction began on the Norwood Park Hotel and an artificial lake in hopes that the area would attract Chicagoans seeking a resort atmosphere. Although the hotel attracted local residents for entertainment purposes, it never drew enough customers to be a success.

Jun 20, 2024 · If you want to see something old, go to Norwood Park, the suburb-in-the-city neighborhood on the Far Northwest Side. The houses are old, the cars are old, and even most of the people I...

The Norwood Park Historical District (also known as Old Norwood) is a historic district in the Norwood Park neighborhood of Chicago, Illinois. It is bordered by Bryn Mawr, Avondale, and Harlem Avenues, and is home to the Noble-Seymour-Crippen House, which was built in 1833 and is widely considered to be the oldest house in Chicago. (However, it ...

Norwood Park evolved from open prairie to farm community to subdivision to village, and finally, to a city neighborhood. Its history is entwined with the history of early Chicago. The fertile farmland, clean water and air, and the high ground of Union Ridge had attracted Native Peoples and later, farmers, investors, and families.

Mar 7, 2013 · Norwood Park, Community Area 10, is one of Chicago’s railroad communities. The original settlement was planned around the Chicago & North Western commuter line. But that’s not the beginning of...

Exhibit Room 2: Norwood Park History. This room contains photographs, maps and objects that tell the story of Norwood Park’s growth from a pioneer farming settlement to an independent 19th Century railroad suburb to a city neighborhood.

As Norwood Park's population grew, the brick four room Norwood Park elementary school built in 1874 was no longer adequate to house the growiing number of students. In 1912 local parents convinced the Chicago Public Schools that Norwood Park needed a new school.