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Portage Park is located on the northwest side of the City of Chicago, Illinois and is one of 77 officially designated Chicago community areas. Portage...18 KB (1,567 words) - 21:52, 18 August 2024
The Chicago Portage was an ancient portage that connected the Great Lakes waterway system with the Mississippi River system. Connecting these two great...26 KB (3,162 words) - 09:26, 8 July 2024- Portage Park is a 36-acre (15 ha) park in the Portage Park community area of Chicago, Illinois on the National Register of Historic Places. The park stretches...6 KB (728 words) - 05:38, 26 August 2023
The Chicago Portage National Historic Site is a National Historic Site commemorating the importance of the Chicago Portage in Lyons, Cook County, Illinois...5 KB (388 words) - 15:39, 24 April 2024
Scotia Portage, Pennsylvania Portage, Wisconsin Portage Bay, Washington Portage County, Ohio Portage County, Wisconsin Portage Park, Chicago Portage-du-Fort...6 KB (731 words) - 19:42, 19 February 2023
Like nearby Portage Park, Edison Park was a common portage for early travelers, who would carry their canoes across it. Edison Park's settlement history...23 KB (1,718 words) - 13:19, 17 July 2024
Parks in Chicago include open spaces and facilities, developed and managed by the Chicago Park District. The City of Chicago devotes 8.5% of its total...17 KB (1,831 words) - 08:42, 17 January 2023
territory. Jefferson Park is bordered by the community areas of Norwood Park to the northwest, Forest Glen to the northeast, Portage Park to the south, and...17 KB (1,288 words) - 01:27, 21 April 2024
Corners in the Portage Park neighborhood of Chicago's Northwest Side, the Portage Theater is one of the oldest movie houses in Chicago. The Portage Theater opened...4 KB (378 words) - 21:03, 29 March 2024
Portage or portaging (CA: /pɔːrˈtɑːʒ/; US: /ˈpɔːrtɪdʒ/) is the practice of carrying water craft or cargo over land, either around an obstacle in a river...16 KB (1,973 words) - 21:41, 31 July 2024- Killing of Anthony Alvarez (category 2021 in Chicago)was shot and killed by a Chicago Police Department officer in the Portage Park neighborhood on the Northwest Side of Chicago. Police body camera footage...18 KB (1,787 words) - 02:41, 28 April 2024
Sheila Nix (category University of Chicago Law School alumni)United States from April 2013 to January 2017. Nix was raised in Portage Park, Chicago and Palatine, Illinois. She earned a Bachelor of Science in Business...10 KB (857 words) - 10:06, 19 August 2024- Luther High School North (category Private high schools in Chicago)North College Prep, was a private high school located in the Portage Park neighborhood of Chicago, Illinois. It was affiliated with the Lutheran Church–Missouri...4 KB (203 words) - 13:38, 3 June 2024
Six Corners (redirect from SIx Corners, Chicago)district in the Portage Park neighborhood of Chicago's Northwest Side. The area's name is from the intersection of three streets—Irving Park Road, Cicero...6 KB (449 words) - 18:38, 17 July 2023
Portage is a city in and the county seat of Columbia County, Wisconsin, United States. The population was 10,581 at the 2020 census, making it the largest...27 KB (2,411 words) - 23:59, 17 August 2024
The Portage Park Bungalow Historic District is a residential historic district in the Portage Park neighborhood of Chicago, Illinois. The district includes...2 KB (190 words) - 04:17, 5 May 2021
Portage County is a county in the U.S. state of Wisconsin. As of the 2020 census, the population was 70,377. Its county seat is Stevens Point. Portage...18 KB (1,093 words) - 15:49, 1 August 2024
Douglass Park, formerly Douglas Park, is a part of the Chicago Park District on the West Side of Chicago, Illinois. Established in 1869 and initially...13 KB (1,268 words) - 15:25, 18 August 2024
Grant Park is a large urban park in the Loop community area of Chicago, Illinois. Located within the city's central business district, the 319-acre (1...45 KB (4,112 words) - 05:50, 10 July 2024
The Chicago Park District is one of the oldest and the largest park districts in the United States. As of 2016, there are over 600 parks included in the...15 KB (1,606 words) - 12:29, 20 May 2024
- used the Chicago trail or gathered here for council. As the farthest point inland to be reached over the Great Lakes, with the shortest portage to the Mississippi
- Located on the shores of freshwater Lake Michigan, Chicago was incorporated as a city in 1837 near a portage between the Great Lakes and the Mississippi River
- Forest Glen, Jefferson Park, Norwood Park, Edison Park, Edgebrook, Dunning, and Portage Park, residential areas which have nice parks, old theaters, and some
- United States for forts and portages. One of these was described as 'one piece of land six miles square, at the mouth of the Chicago River, emptying into the