Chicago-Read Mental Health Center

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.

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.

Mount Olive Cemetery is located at 3800 North Narragansett Avenue, in Chicago.Mount Olive Cemetery was established in 1889. The cemetery was founded for Chicago's Scandinavian population.

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."

Wilbur Wright College, formerly known as Wright Junior College, is a public community college in Chicago. Part of the City Colleges of Chicago system, it offers two-year associate's degrees, as well as occupational training in IT, manufacturing, medical, and business fields. Its main campus is located on Chicago's Northwest Side in the Dunning neighborhood.

Harwood Heights is a village in Cook County, Illinois, United States. The population was 9,065 at the 2020 census. Harwood Heights and its neighbor Norridge form an enclave surrounded by the city of Chicago.

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 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.

The Schorsch Irving Park Gardens Historic District is a residential historic district in the Dunning neighborhood of Chicago, Illinois. The district includes 255 buildings, all but three of which are Chicago bungalows. In the early twentieth century, tens of thousands of Chicago bungalows were built in the city; as homeownership became more accessible to working-class Chicagoans, demand for housing increased, and bungalows were an affordable way of meeting this demand due to their relatively uniform design. The bungalows in the district were largely built either between 1917 and 1918 or between 1922 and 1926. Unlike Chicago's other bungalow-dominated neighborhoods, which often had several different developers, developer Albert J. Schorsch built every bungalow in the district, and architech Ernest N. Braucher designed all of them. To add diversity to a neighborhood made up of only one style of house, the two men varied the homes' roof shapes, colors, and dormers.The district was added to the National Register of Historic Places on February 25, 2004.

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

Irving Park Cemetery is located at 7777 West Irving Park Road, in Chicago.Irving Park Cemetery performed its first interment in July 1918. Some of the victims of the 1929 Saint Valentine's Day Massacre are buried at Irving Park Cemetery.