Edison Park has one of the highest concentrations of Irish ancestry in Chicago, where they make up over three-fourths of the neighborhood's population.

The Ebingers had emigrated from Stuttgart, Germany, to Ann Arbor, Michigan, and then to Chicago seeking suitable farmland, but had found it too swampy.

The senior Christian Ebinger was a friend of local Native Americans in the area, among them Chief Blackhawk and Billy Caldwell.

Christian Ebinger Jr. became the first minister to be ordained in their German Evangelical Association, and then was elected the Village Collector (1852), Village Assessor (1852-1865) and Highway Commissioner (1854-1858); he died in 1879, survived by seven children, including another Christian Ebinger.

Developers targeted the area circa 1868, Norwood Park incorporated out of Niles Township in 1874, and was annexed to Chicago in 1893.

[5] It was a stop on the Chicago and Milwaukee Railroad (later the Chicago and North Western Railway line) before Park Ridge, Illinois (in Maine Township and also partly from what was once Ebinger property), and became a streetcar suburb in the 20th century.

According to a 2016 analysis by the Chicago Metropolitan Agency for Planning, there were 11,208 people and 4,400 households in Edison Park.

The band explains the title was selected because Edison Park was "the neighborhood in Chicago where we used to rehearse...

[15] Edison Park has narrowly voted for the Democratic Party in the past two presidential elections.