| 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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