{"id":33804,"count":1,"description":"Norridge is a village in Cook County, Illinois, United States. The population was 14,582 at the 2000 census. The current Mayor of Norridge is Ronald A. Oppedisano.\nThe village is completely surrounded by Chicago and Harwood Heights.\nThe name \"Norridge\" was suggested by resident Mrs. Link. \"Nor\" comes from Norwood Park Township, and \"Ridge\" comes from the nearby suburb of Park Ridge.\nNorridge is sometimes referred to as \"Island Within A City\", because along with nearby Harwood Heights, it is surrounded by Chicago on all sides. A history book of the same name was written by Norridge author Tom McGowen.\nLocated in Norwood Park Township, the first names of what would become Norridge were \"Goat Village\", due to a local residents goat farm, and \"Swamp\" due to a lack of streets and the area's swamp-like conditions. Norridge started out as an 80-acre (320,000 m) subdivision that ran from Ozanam Avenue in the West to Olcott Avenue in the East and from Irving Park Road in the South to Montrose...","link":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/tag\/norridge\/","name":"Norridge","slug":"norridge","taxonomy":"post_tag","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags\/33804","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/taxonomies\/post_tag"}],"wp:post_type":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts?tags=33804"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}