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North Riverside.

North Riverside was formally incorporated in 1923, but its roots trace back to just after the Civil War, when its first residents included onion farmers and members of the Riverside Holiness Association. The village takes its name and identity from neighboring Riverside, the planned suburb laid out to its south. In its early decades the area was also home to the Melody Mill ballroom, a Big Band-era landmark. The community grew through the 20th century from a rural fringe settlement into a built-out residential village in the near-western suburbs of Chicago.

North Riverside is divided between two townships, with 9th Avenue as the dividing line: properties east of 9th Avenue lie in Riverside Township and those to the west lie in Proviso Township. The single most important event in the village's modern fiscal history was the development of retail along Cermak Road, anchored by the North Riverside Park Mall, which opened in the mid-1970s and grew into a regional shopping destination of over a million square feet. Sales tax revenue from the mall and surrounding commercial corridor has long allowed the village to keep its own share of residents' property tax bills very low, around 3 percent of the total bill in the 2024 tax year. Later commercial additions, including a Costco that opened in 2013, continued this retail-driven model.