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The Schorsch brothers, who first developed this small neighborhood in the 1910s, wanted so badly to disassociate their land from the neighboring poor farm and insane asylum in Dunning that they decided to call the area "West Portage Park." The neighborhood saw its population grow soon after World War I when the city started running public transit to the Dunning area, and it became a place where immigrants from Sweden, Germany and Poland settled. The neighborhood, whose "streets are lined with English Tudors, bungalows, and ranch-style homes" is now called Schorsch Village, and the presence of these early ethnic groups can still be felt in the community today.
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This small, mostly residential neighborhood on Chicago's northwest side is part of the larger Norwood Park community area. First settled in the 1830s by a man named Israel Smith, who built his home on a ridge, the area was often referred to as "Smith's Ridge" by later settlers. This "informal name would ultimately lose out to the title Union Ridge after the Smith clan left the area," and the land they left behind not only included Union Ridge, but also the neighborhood of Big Oaks, the nearby Ridgemoor Country Club, and parts of the suburb of Harwood Heights.
Part of the Hermosa community area, Kelvyn Park is a small, mostly residential neighborhood on Chicago's northwest side. Two landmarks are the beautiful field house at the neighborhood's namesake park, as well as the neighborhood's namesake high school, both of which sit near the eastern end of Wrightwood Avenue's only broad, boulevard-like stretch.
The Schorsch brothers, who first developed this small neighborhood in the 1910s, wanted so badly to disassociate their land from the neighboring poor farm and insane asylum in Dunning that they decided to call the area "West Portage Park." The neighborhood saw its population grow soon after World War I when the city started running public transit to the Dunning area, and it became a place where immigrants from Sweden, Germany and Poland settled. The neighborhood, whose "streets are lined with English Tudors, bungalows, and ranch-style homes" is now called Schorsch Village, and the presence of these early ethnic groups can still be felt in the community today.