Today West Ridge is one of Chicago's better off communities, filled with multi-ethnic culture lining Devon Avenue, historic mansions lining Ridge and Lunt Avenues, cultural institutions such as St. Scholastica Academy and one of the highest per capita incomes on the North Side of Chicago.

It is home to the Midwest's largest Hasidic community, as well as other Jewish, Irish American, German-American, Indian, Pakistani, Bangladeshi, Assyrian, Russian, Korean and Rohingya[2] immigrant communities.

[3] West Ridge was annexed to Chicago on April 4, 1893, along with Rogers Park.

The heyday of the area is the topic of Adam Langer's Crossing California,[6] told from the perspective of the second-generation residents during their middle school and teenage years.

On April 5, 2011, Alderman Debra Silverstein defeated Stone in a runoff election[12] and now represents the 50th Ward, which encompasses West Ridge.