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This pamphlet was originally published in 1907 by the Low & Woods real estate
firm as an invitation to prospective homeowners to move to Norwood Park. Nearly
one hundred years later, it is our privilege to bring it back to you.
The link below is a flash presentation of Norwood Park in 1907. The Norwood Park
Historical Society reprinted the images displayed in 1984, which is a reproduction
from an original pamphlet created by Ramona Dobrick Pulley. Mrs. Pulley is to be
commended for preserving this rare document. Enjoy.
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An Invitation to Move to Norwood Park "The Ideal Suburb"
Published by the Norwood Press in 1907 Norwood Park Station, Chicago, Illinois
Go back in time with an excerpt of the original published pamphlet in 1907 . . .
Norwood Park
Norwood Park is a suburb of Chicago, situated on the Wisconsin Division of the Chicago
& North - Western Railroad, eleven miles from the City Hall, and within the
limits of the city. Its natural beauty surpasses that of any suburb of Chicago,
and it is located on the ridge, which surrounds Chicago and is the watershed between
the Lake and the Illinois River. The highest point on this ridge within the city
is in Norwood Park, and it comes within a few feet of being the highest point on
this ridge in the county. Norwood is between eighty and ninety feet above the level
of Lake Michigan. The suburb was originally laid out by the noted landscape gardener
for the World's Columbian Exposition. By referring to the map of Norwood, contained
in this booklet, it can be readily appreciated that Norwood gets its name from the
beautiful and park like manner in which the streets are laid out. Norwood is one
great park. Its streets are one hundred feet wide, and its parkways thirty-five
feet from lot line to curb. One great attraction is the beautiful trees, which line
both sides of the streets, and adorn the lawns throughout the suburb. All lots are
from fifty to one hundred feet wide, and from two hundred to four hundred feet deep.
The pictures in this pamphlet will give a meager idea of what the description portrays,
both as to streets and residences.
Transportation
The transportation facilities are all that could be desired, and are adequate in
every respect. The North-Western Railroad runs about fifty trains a day between
twenty-eight minutes. A twenty-five ride bearer ticket costs $3.15, which brings
a single ride to about twelve and one-half cents. Sixty ride monthly commutation
tickets cost $5.70, about nine cents a ride. We can speak of the service given by
the North-Western only in the very highest terms. Trains are frequent, and conveniently
timed; fast, clean and comfortable; well lighted and well ventilated; and the employees
courteous and considerate. Plans have been completed for a new passenger depot at
Norwood, the finest on this line of the C. & N-W. Ry. Work has been commenced,
and the building will be ready for occupancy during the summer of 1907. Now that
the franchise question is settled, we will soon have ample street car facilities
that proposed line running to the city limits, parallel to the North-Western Railroad.
Improvements
During the last two years the people of Norwood Park have expended about $200,000
for street improvements and cement sidewalks. It must be conceded that we have the
finest system of macadamized streets of any suburb of Chicago making each street
a natural boulevard, bordered on each side by granite cement curbs and gutters.
The sidewalks are regulation cement walks, the inside borders of which are, on an
average, about five feet from the lot line, leaving a beautiful parkway on either
side.
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