Irving Park is a Community Area located on Chicago's Northwest Side. It is bounded by the Chicago River on the east, the Milwaukee Road railroad tracks on the west, Addison Street on the south and Montrose Avenue on the north, west of Pulaski Road stretching to encompass the region between Belmont Avenue on the south and, roughly, Leland Avenue on the north.

Old Irving Park, bounded by Montrose Avenue, Pulaski Road, Addison Street and Kostner Avenue, has a variety af housing stock, with Queen Anne, Victorian, and Italianate homes, a few farmhouses and numerous bungalows.

The CTA Blue Line runs through this neighborhood, with stops at Addison and Irving/Pulaski.

The early 1980s saw a rebirth for Irving Park as a wider audience discovered the beautiful homes and rich history of the area. The Irving Park Historical Society was formed in 1984, to help preserve this heritage and the irreplaceable architecture, which had survived since the earliest days of our history. Since that times, many homes have been restored and many more restorations are in progress. Many of the homes built in the 1870s and 1880’s survive today. A survey by volunteers of the Irving Park Historical Society documented several hundred buildings in use which predate 1894! Some remain intact, some have been slightly modified and others retain just a hint of their former Victorian splendor.

The combined efforts of the residents of Old Irving Park are helping to return the community to its original style and to what has been referred to as "a suburb within the city".

Albany Park is a residential and commercial neighborhood on the Northwest Side of Chicago, and one of the most ethnically diverse in the United States. It has one of highest percentages of foreign-born residents of neighborhoods in Chicago. Although the majority of those foreign-born residents are from Latin America, the majority from Mexico and Guatemala, substantial numbers are from the Philippines, India, Korea, Cambodia, the Former Yugoslavia (Serbia, Croatia, Bosnia), Romania, Pakistan and the Middle East (especially Iraq, Iran, and Lebanon). Over 40 different languages are spoken in its public schools. Due to the diverse population and immigrant population attraction, the population of the neighborhood has increased by 16.5% in the last decade.