Harwood Heights, Illinois

The Eisenhower Public Library District is a public library located in Harwood Heights, Illinois, one of two suburbs completely surrounded by but not incorporated into Chicago. The Eisenhower Public Library District serves Harwood Heights and Norridge residents. Its mission is to "[empower] patrons of all ages to be successful and informed members of their communities."

Ridgewood High School, or RHS, is a public four-year high school located in Norridge, Illinois, an enclave suburb surrounded by Chicago, Illinois, in the United States. It is part of Ridgewood Community High School District 234. The school serves portions of Norridge, Harwood Heights and unincorporated Norwood Park Township.

Harlem Irving Plaza (commonly referred to as "The HIP") is a shopping mall located in Norridge, Illinois, a suburb of Chicago. The mall features over 100 stores and a food court. The mall's anchor stores are Kohl's, Nordstrom Rack, XSport Fitness, Xfinity, Best Buy, Target, Hobby Lobby, DSW, Five Below, and Dick's. It is one of the oldest shopping malls in the Chicago area.

Norwood Park Township is one of 29 townships in Cook County, Illinois, USA. As of the 2020 census, its population was 27,441.

Chicago-Read Mental Health Center (CRMHC, often called simply Read) is a state-run inpatient JCAHO-accredited facility with between 150 and 200 beds located in the neighborhood of Dunning on the northwest side of the city of Chicago close to O'Hare International Airport in the state of Illinois. It has served the adult residents of Chicago under various names since 1854 as a repository for the mentally ill and destitute and as an alternative to incarceration for mentally ill offenders. Its former names have included the Chicago State Hospital and the Charles F. Read Zone Center; in 1885, it was called The County Insane Asylum and Infirmary. Originally, it was simply known as "Dunning" though "Dunning" officially closed on June 30, 1912, and reopened the next day as Chicago State Hospital. Much later, it became the Chicago-Read Mental Health Center. Read has faced a number of setbacks in its time. In 1885, the Chicago Woman's Club and other organizations in Chicago called for an investigation into the hospital to correct the many problems found there. In 1901, it was found that nurses had starved two mental patients to death there; in 1988, the director of the facility was dismissed under what were described as deplorable conditions for patients; in 1992, it was under investigation for civil rights violations and in 1993, Read lost its accreditation altogether.

Ridgemoor Country Club is a country club located near Chicago, Illinois. It hosted the Hale America National Open Golf Tournament in 1942. Along with golf, the club also has swimming and tennis facilities.

The Romanian Orthodox Metropolia of the Americas (Romanian: Mitropolia Ortodoxă Română a celor două Americi) is an autonomous Eastern Orthodox metropolis of the Romanian Orthodox Church. The Metropolia covers the territory of the United States and Canada.The church is headed by Nicolae, Archbishop of the Romanian Orthodox Archdiocese of the United States of America and The Romanian Orthodox Metropolitan of the Americas, with the metropolitan center located in Chicago, Illinois.

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. Organized in 1873 as a township from the adjacent townships of Jefferson, Leyden, Niles, and Maine, and named after Henry Ward Beecher's 1868 novel Norwood, or Village Life in New England (With the "Park" added to account for another post office in Illinois with the Norwood name), Norwood Park was incorporated as a village in 1874 and annexed to Chicago on November 7, 1893.Every Memorial Day since 1922 there has been a parade that runs through Norwood Park. William Howard Taft High School, best known as the inspiration for the musical Grease, was completed in 1939 with major additions made in 1959 and 1974.

Harlem is a Chicago "L" station serving the Blue Line's O'Hare branch in Chicago's Norwood Park neighborhood. It is not to be confused with the other Harlem Blue Line station. Trains run from Harlem every 2–7 minutes during rush hour, and take 30–45 minutes to travel to the Loop. O'Hare-bound trains take 10 minutes to reach the airport from Harlem. The station is located in the median of the Kennedy Expressway. Harlem station opened on February 27, 1983 as part of the 7.9-mile extension of the West-Northwest Route from Jefferson Park to O'Hare . Similar to the 1970-built stations on the previous Kennedy Extension (Addison to Jefferson Park), Harlem station sits in the median of the Kennedy Expressway (Interstate 90). Where the previous Kennedy stations were all designed by Skidmore, Owings and Merrill (SOM) to be aesthetically similar in appearance, stations on the O'Hare Extension beyond Jefferson Park were designed by four different firms in a variety of architectural styles. The Harlem station, the only one designed by SOM, shares a similar boxy, open design of the previous 1970 Kennedy Extension (and the 1969-built Dan Ryan stations), except the newer Harlem station has an enclosed platform canopy where the support frame was designed on the highway median walls, thus providing an unobstructed platform, free of column supports. An almost identical canopy frame was also employed at the Cumberland station, however, it was designed another architectural super-giant, Perkins + Will.

Dunning is one of 77 officially designated community areas of the city of Chicago, Illinois. Dunning also is a neighborhood located on the Northwest Side of the city. The neighborhood is home to Wilbur Wright College, Mount Olive Cemetery, Zion Gardens Cemetery, and the Eli's Cheesecake factory.It is also the location of the Chicago-Read Mental Health Center, formerly known as Cook County Insane Asylum and commonly referred to, in its day, as simply "Dunning."

The Cook County Poor Farm (also known as the Dunning Poorhouse and Insane Asylum) was a public institution established by the Cook County Board of Commissioners of Illinois in 1851 to provide care for the destitute, infirm, and mentally ill of Cook County. The 320-acre property, located ten miles northwest of Chicago, was situated in what was once Jefferson Township, which became known as Dunning in 1883. It included the Poorhouse, the Insane Asylum, support buildings, a working farm and a cemetery. Later, two additional hospitals were built, along with a small schoolhouse for the inmates' children. The working farm produced most of the food required for inmates and staff. Flax was also grown to make linens, sheets and some clothing for the inmates. The County Commissioners administered all funds, appointed the staff, and supervised the operation of the Poor Farm. With the growing number of inmates and its designation as Cook County’s only Potter's Field, the cemetery reached capacity by the 1860s, prompting the addition of new burial grounds. The Poor Farm's inmate population grew quickly, leading to overcrowding. The county built a new, larger Insane Asylum in 1870. The Poorhouse had fallen into disrepair by the 1870s and it could not accommodate the increasing number of inmates. In 1882, the county built a railroad line to the Poor Farm to facilitate the transportation of people and supplies during the construction of a new Poorhouse. Construction on a new Poor house began in the early 1880s and was finished in 1885. The county renamed the facility the "Infirmary." Consumptives had been part of the Poor Farm inmate population since the beginning, and were housed in a small building. Increased demand to care for consumptives at Dunning led to the building of a new Tuberculosis hospital, completed in 1903. After 1900, due to the escalating costs and challenges of caring for the large population at Dunning, the State of Illinois took over responsibility for the Infirmary, the Insane Asylum and the Tuberculosis Hospital. The Poor Farm at Dunning was sold to the state in 1912. The Insane Asylum patients remained on site and the inmates of the Infirmary and the Tuberculosis hospital were transferred to a newly constructed Infirmary in Oak Forest, Illinois. Complaints about the conditions at the Poor Farm and the treatment of the inmates were an ongoing challenge for the County Commissioners. Charges by inmates and observers concerning abuse, neglect and substandard living conditions were typically investigated by several County Commissioners or a committee appointed by the County. Crimes were investigated by both the County and the police. The local newspapers often did their own investigations and wrote exposes on the conditions at the Insane Asylum and the Poorhouse. From the firing of an incompetent, non-licensed physician in the 1850s to the beating death of inmates by attendants in the 1890s, the Poor Farm was often in the headlines of the Chicago newspapers.

Norridge is a village in Cook County, Illinois, United States. The population was 15,251 at the 2020 census. The village and its neighbor to the east, Harwood Heights, together form an enclave within the city of Chicago (i.e. they are surrounded by the city). Norridge is sometimes referred to as the "Island Within a City". The current President of Norridge is Daniel Tannhauser.