Old Norwood is a neighborhood in the Norwood Park community area of Chicago, Illinois. It is bordered by Bryn Mawr, Avondale, and Harlem Avenues, and it is home to the Noble-Seymour-Crippen House, which was built in 1833 and is widely considered to be the oldest house Chicago.
Norwood lies west of Jefferson Park, south of edison Park, and east of O'Hare Airport. Named after Henry Ward Beecher's novel Norwood, or Village Life in New England (1868), it is home to many of the city's firefighters, police officers, and other blue collar workers.
Norwood Park is known especially for its abundance of green: lawns, parks, churchyards, and trees are its visual hallmarks. The community's namesake park is home to 14 acres of swimming, a fitness center, a running track, ball fields, tennis courts and a field house that is home to neighborhood and youth sports programs year-round.
Every Memorial Day (May 29) there is a parade that runs through Norwood Park.The parade has been a local tradition for more than 80 years. The tradition started in 1922. The community area boasts the oldest extant building in Chicago, the Noble-Seymour-Crippen House.
The neighborhood roughly shares the same boundaries as the Norwood Park Historical District, which was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2002.