Portage Park has the largest Polish community in the Chicago Metropolitan Area according to the 2000 census.

The neighborhood of Portage Park is a primarily residential area.

Portage Park served as the focus that brought together the different communities in the area and created the neighborhood.

The field house at Portage Park was designed by Clarence Hatzfeld.

The neighborhood of Portage Park has a number of other greenspaces aside from the neighborhood's namesake park:

The New Year's Eve party was filmed in a home in Portage Park.

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The park in Portage Park originally had a dirt bottom pond that blended into a cement bottom pool.

"The Development of Portage Park from the Earliest Period to the 1920s."

Portage Parks offer a wide variety of service, from sports leagues, to crafts, to hiking and water sports.