Чикаго қаласындағы Портедж Парк ауданы

Community area in Chicago
the neighborhood
Portage Park has the largest Polish community in the Chicago Metropolitan Area according to the 2000 census. Portage Park is home to the Polish American Association, the Polish Jesuit Millennium Center, the Polish Army Veterans Association in the beautiful building of the former Irving State bank, in addition to the multitude of Polish shops and businesses throughout the district. One of the area's parks is named Chopin Park after Frédéric Chopin, Poland's most famous pianist and composer.

In 1850, along with construction of the Northwest Plank Road (present Milwaukee Avenue), Jefferson Township was incorporated at the legendary Dickinson Tavern. Jefferson Township was part of a large swath of land annexed to the city in 1889 in advance of the World's Columbian Exposition. Much of the area was still largely rural in the early 20th century until the extension of streetcar lines into the area along Milwaukee, Irving, and Cicero lured in immigrants from the overcrowded tenements of the city's ethnic enclaves. Soon Scandinavian, German, Italian, Polish and Irish families from the industrial areas by the Chicago River such as Polish Downtown and Goose Island were buying lots in the vicinity to build their homes. Area developers such as Szajkowski, Schorsch as well as Koester and Zander subdivided what had been farmland into subdivisions of what became part of Chicago's famous "bungalow belt".

Portage Park residents are served by Chicago Public Schools, which includes neighborhood and citywide options for students. There are also a number of private parochial schools run by Roman Catholic and Lutheran congregations in the area.

Portage Park has supported the Democratic Party in the past two presidential elections by large margins. In the 2016 presidential election, Portage Park cast 15,884 votes for Hillary Clinton and cast 5,344 votes for Donald Trump (71.11% to 23.93%). In the 2012 presidential election, Portage Park cast
14,028 votes for Barack Obama and cast 4,989 votes for Mitt Romney (72.34% to 25.73%).

Chicago Public Library operates three branches located in the Portage Park community area: Portage Cragin, Austin Irving and Jefferson Park.

The Patio Theater, built in 1927, is a single screen atmospheric style movie palace screening repertory and independent films. There are preliminary plans to erect a statue of pianist Frédéric Chopin in Chopin Park for the 200th anniversary of Chopin's birth in addition to a 1:1 scale replica of Wacław Szymanowski's Art Nouveau found in Warsaw's Royal Baths along Chicago's lakefront. Portage Park is the childhood home of Francis Cardinal George, O. M. I., the late Cardinal Archbishop Emeritus of Chicago (1937 2015; served 1997–2014; cardinal, 1998; president of the U. S. bishops, 2007–2010; formerly, Bishop of Yakima, WA, and Archbishop of Portland, OR). He grew up in a working class area of the neighborhood in a small red brick house. There is a street, near Byron Street, named for him.