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Norwood Park, Chicago

Norwood Park is one of the 77 community areas of Chicago, Illinois, United States.

Norwood Park, Chicago
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The place

Norwood Park is one of the 77 community areas of Chicago, Illinois, United States. It encompasses the smaller neighborhoods of Big Oaks, Norwood Park East, Norwood Park West, Old Norwood Park, Oriole Park, and Union Ridge.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Norwood Park, Chicago

10 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.

  1. 01
    St. Adalbert Cemetery

    St. Adalbert Cemetery (Polish: Cmentarz św.

    2.8 km · cemetery in Niles, Illinois · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Leaning Tower of Niles

    The Leaning Tower of Niles is a half-size replica of the Leaning Tower of Pisa located in Niles, Illinois, a suburb of Chicago. Designed by architect Albert L. Farr and completed in 1934, it was commissioned by industrialist Robert Ilg as part of a recreation park for employees of the Ilg Hot Air Electric Ventilating Company of Chicago.

    3.9 km · replica tower of Pisa's, in Niles, Illinois, United States · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    St. Joseph the Betrothed Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church

    St. Joseph the Betrothed Ukrainian Greek-Catholic Church is a Ukrainian church located in Chicago and belonging to the St.

    3.2 km · church in Illinois, USA · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Westlawn Cemetery

    Westlawn Cemetery is a Jewish cemetery located in Norridge, a suburb of Chicago in Illinois. The cemetery covers 72 acres and roughly 46,000 people are buried there.

    3.3 km · cemetery in Norridge, Illinois · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Katyń Monument in Niles

    The Katyń Memorial is a monument in Niles in Illinois, United States, located at the St. Adalbert Cemetery.

    2.8 km · monument in Niles, Illinois, United States · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    Copernicus Center with the Mitchell P. Kobelinski Theater

    The Copernicus Center is a 1,852-seat former movie palace in the Jefferson Park community area of Chicago in Cook County, Illinois, United States. The Copernicus Center is located at 5216 W. Lawrence Avenue.

    3.7 km · movie theatre and music venue in Chicago, Illinois, United States · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    Mount Olive Cemetery

    Mount Olive Cemetery is a landscaped cemetery in Chicago, Illinois, United States. It was founded by Chicago's Scandinavian community in 1886.

    3.5 km · cemetery in Chicago, Illinois · Wikipedia
  8. 08
    Harlem Irving Plaza

    Harlem Irving Plaza is a shopping mall located in Norridge, Illinois, a suburb of Chicago. The mall features over 100 stores and a food court.

    2.8 km · shopping mall in Norridge, Illinois, US · Wikipedia
  9. 09
    Noble-Seymour-Crippen House

    The Noble–Seymour–Crippen House is a mansion located at 5624 North Newark Avenue in Chicago's Norwood Park community area. Its southern wing, built in 1833, is widely considered the oldest existing building in Chicago, as well as the 22nd oldest in the state of Illinois.

    600 m · historic house in Norwood Park, Chicago, Illinois, USA · Wikipedia
  10. 10
    Patio Theater

    The Patio Theater is a music venue and movie theater located at 6008 W. Irving Park Road on the northwest side of Chicago, Illinois in the Portage Park neighborhood. The building was built in 1927 as a movie theater.

    3.5 km · movie theater in Chicago, Illinois, United States · Wikipedia

Ranked by the number of language editions of Wikipedia with an article on each, from Wikidata; the sentences are the openings of those articles, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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Getting to Norwood Park, Chicago

Airports
Chicago O'Hare (ORD), 9 km · Chicago Midway (MDW), 22 km · General Mitchell (MKE), 108 km
Stations
Norwood Park, 1.3 km · Edgebrook, 3.5 km · Gladstone Park, 1.8 km · Forest Glen, 3.7 km
  • Milwaukee → Norwood Park, Chicago
    117 km · quickest by road, 2h 22m · $10–14
  • Grand Rapids → Norwood Park, Chicago
    206 km · quickest by road, 4h 40m · $24–33
  • Indianapolis → Norwood Park, Chicago
    283 km · quickest by road, 4h 53m · $25–34
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Norwood Park, Chicago

Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Norwood Park, Chicago. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get inIt is the fourth busiest airport in Illinois, despite only operating charter flights.

From Wikivoyage: Northwest Suburbs (Illinois), CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-08.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    Fire IslandUS

    10 ways of moving, 18 sources

    1,231 km
  2. 02
    Vinalhaven and the Fox IslandsUS

    9 ways of moving, 13 sources

    1,556 km
  3. 03
    BacalarMX

    9 ways of moving, 41 sources

    2,592 km
  4. 04
    Caye CaulkerBZ

    9 ways of moving, 42 sources

    2,695 km
  5. 05
    FloresGT

    9 ways of moving, 32 sources

    2,792 km

If you know how people move in Norwood Park, Chicago – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.

Around it

Next door to Norwood Park, Chicago

Norwood Park, Chicago is 19 km from Chicago, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

  • Jefferson Parkcommunity area in Chicago, Illinois2.5 km
  • Wildwoodneighborhood in Forest Glen, Chicago, United States3.5 km