Garfield Ridge is one of the community areas which border Midway Airport, known collectively as just "Midway". It is served by the CTA's Orange Line . Garfield Ridge stretches southward from the Stevenson Expressway to 59th street, and from Cicero Avenue to Harlem Avenue going west. Many immigrants from Poland moved to Garfield Ridge in past years, and since the 1990s, many Hispanics have started moving into the neighborhood. This gives the area a unique blend of different cultures. There is generally a large Catholic population, and the area is served by many Catholic elementary schools. There are a number of Chicago Public Schools that serve the area. These include Kinzie, Byrne, and Mark Twain Elementary Schools, and Kennedy High School. Garfield Ridge also has numerous Chicago Parks which include Wentworth, Valley Forge, Vittum and Stars and Stripes.
Chicago has the largest population of Poles outside Warsaw, Poland and many of those immigrants live in Garfield Ridge and their bordering neighborhood, Clearing .
