[3] [4] The proliferation of saloons led to a movement to turn Mount Greenwood into a "dry area" like the nearby communities of Morgan Park and Beverly.

To prevent this, a group of citizens successfully campaign to incorporate Mount Greenwood as a village.

[4][3] Despite being annexed by Chicago, the area maintained a character similar to nearby blue collar city-suburbs.

[15] Mount Greenwood is a rarity amongst Chicago community areas as residents, the city and academics largely agree on its boundaries.

[3] Land use in Mount Greenwood consists mostly of single family residential housing of which there is 748 acres, most of which was built between 1940 and 1970.

The presence of the Chicago High School for Agricultural Science and St. Xavier University contribute to the 523 acres of institutional land use.

[17] Mount Greenwood is home to a large number of cemeteries and, for a time, was nicknamed the Seven Holy Tombs.

Although completely surrounded by the City of Chicago, Mount Greenwood Cemetery is in unincorporated Cook County.

[18] The Mount Greenwood area has a reputation as a historical bastion of the South Side Irish.

Mount Greenwood has the fourth highest percent of self-reported Irish Americans in the United States, at 46%.

[17]The top 5 employing industry sectors of Mount Greenwood residents are public administration (21.8%), education (16.0%), health care (11.3%), retail trade (6.9%) and accommodation and food service (6.2%).

[3] By the 1980s, Mount Greenwood was home two of the last surviving farms in the city, one of which was developed as the Chicago High School for Agricultural Sciences at the southeast corner of 111th and Pulaski.

[17] The booming Mount Greenwood community was among the neighborhoods identified for park development in the Chicago Park District's Ten Year Plan to provide increased recreational opportunities in post-World War II Chicago.

In 1946, the Mount Greenwood Civic Council urged the acquisition of vacant Board of Education land along 111th Street.

A parking area is dedicated to Frederick G. Abrams Sr. a Chicago Alderman and Treasurer of the Village of Mount Greenwood from 1918 to 1927.

In the 2016 presidential election, Mount Greenwood was the only community area in the city of Chicago won by Donald Trump.