Portage Park (Chicago)

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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 from Irving Park Road on the south to Berteau Avenue between Central and Long Avenues.

The largest public park on Chicago's Northwest Side, it has many recreational facilities including six tennis courts, two playgrounds, a slab for in-line skating, a bike path, a nature walk, five baseball fields, two combination football/soccer fields and two fieldhouses— one housing a gymnasium and the other a cultural arts building.[1]

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  1. "Portage Park". Chicago Park District. Retrieved April 2, 2016.