“My goal is to reduce the number of governmental bodies - it’s one of the reasons our property taxes are so high,” McSweeney said. David McSweeney, R-Barrington Hills, passed a bill that would allow McHenry County townships to dissolve themselves. Some rural counties want to get rid of their townships, too. It's not just urban counties that find remnant townships burdensome. But UNPT is still there, freeloading police protection off the rest of the county. When she took office in 2011, Cook County Board President Toni Preckwinkle set a goal of eliminating all unincorporated land by the end of the decade.
The township has no police force, so the county is required to patrol it with sheriff's deputies, along with 51 other miles of unincorporated land. UNPT, as we'll call it for short, is kind of a pain for Cook County. The neighborhood, though, prefers to advertise itself as “An Island in the City.” Unincorporated Norwood Park Township is best known as the home of serial killer John Wayne Gacy, who buried dozens of boys in the crawlspace of his home at 8213 West Summerdale Avenue. That's unincorporated Norwood Park Township, a leftover piece of land that never joined Chicago or its quasi-suburban neighbors, Norridge or Harwood Heights. Look at a map of Chicago, and you'll notice a little hole on the Northwest Side - a few blocks, shaped like a backwards C, between Oriole Park and the Cook County Forest Preserve.
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