BlockPortage Park, Illinois
26 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1891 and the latest in 1997. It stands in Chicago City. It lies in ZIP code area 60641. The Survey maps it on the River Forest quadrangle.
On record in Portage Park
Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.
On the National Register within a mile 4 records
The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.
Portage Park Bungalow Historic Districtlisted 2014 · 0.1 miles away
Portage Parklisted 1995 · 0.2 miles away
Jefferson Parklisted 2006 · 0.9 miles away
Schorsch Irving Park Gardens Historic Districtlisted 2004 · 0.9 miles away
Topographic sheets covering this place
12 surveys from 26 printed sheetsMatched by testing this settlement's coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet in the United States Geological Survey's historical collection. Each opens the scanned sheet at the Survey.
- 1891 USGS Riverside quadrangle1:62500
- 1893 USGS Riverside quadrangle1:62500
- 1900 USGS Riverside quadrangle1:62500
- 1901 USGS Riverside quadrangle1:62500, 4 printings
- 1928 USGS River Forest quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
- 1953 USGS Chicago quadrangle1:250000, 5 printings
- 1953 USGS River Forest quadrangle1:24000
- 1957 USGS Chicago quadrangle1:250000
- 1963 USGS River Forest quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
- 1980 USGS Chicago quadrangle1:100000
- 1993 USGS River Forest quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1997 USGS River Forest quadrangle1:24000
What happened here
An account from the chapter on Chicago city. The inset identifies its exact source book and publication year.
Index To Content
Chapter I. - First Settler of Chicago, 5. Various Appellations of Chicago. .Garies' River, 6. The Main River Bed Changed. .Chicago in Virginia. .Treaty of Greenville. . Original Site of Chicago. .Illinois in Indiana Territory. .Fort Dearborn Established. .First Commandants of the Fort. .Massacre of 1S12, 7. Captain John and Lieutenant Wm.
In the county-history sources
902,150 words on this townshipPolitics and Politicians of Chicago, Cook County, and Illinois : Memorial Volume, 1787-1887; a Complete Record of Municipal, County, State and National Politics from the Earliest Period to the Present Time, published 1887; ... History of Chicago, Illinois, published 1895; Historical Review of Chicago and Cook County and Selected Biography. A.N. Waterman ... Ed. and Author of Historical Review, published 1908 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for smaller places. Its township is covered in full.
The chapter on Chicago City covers the township.
Read the chapter on Chicago City - 902,150 words.
Storms near this place
4 since 2021Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Portage Park in 4 storm reports between 2021 and 2025: 3 thunderstorm wind, 1 flood. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Portage Park | - | Mutliple trees and large tree limbs were blown down in Portage Park. |
| March 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Portage Park | - | A large tree limb was blown down. |
| June 2022 | Flood | Portage Park | - | Minor street flooding was reported at numerous locations in Chicago, with most of the reports across north and northeast Chicago. A few underpasses were also flooded. |
| July 2021 | Thunderstorm Wind | Portage Park | - | A photo shared on social media showed a large tree limb that was blown down near the Interstate 90/94 split. |
Nearest settlements
The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.
| Map | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Martin Luther | 0.6 miles | 26 | |
| Jefferson Park | 0.9 miles | 26 | |
| Six Corners | 1.0 miles | 24 | |
| Montrose | 1.0 miles | 24 | |
| Schorsch | 1.0 miles | 26 | |
| Grayland | 1.1 miles | 24 | |
| Colonial Gardens | 1.2 miles | 26 | |
| Irving Park | 1.5 miles | 24 |
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1772719. The sheet list is computed by point-in-boundary test against the United States Geological Survey's historical topographic inventory. Both are works of the United States government and carry no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.
Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.