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The driving distance may be different from the straight line flight distance. Cities at a radius of time 1 hour or distance miles : location city name : Find places! During wet weather, early Indian inhabitants could paddle their canoes from the Chicago River to the Des Plaines on a minor portage along present-day Irving Park Road. They were reported to have built a village on the top of an elevation west of Cicero and Irving Park Avenues.
Another ridge two miles west near Narragansett formed the natural watershed between the Mississippi and Great Lakes drainage system. Following an treaty , the Indians relinquished their rights to the land. Sutherland set up a tavern in along the North West Plank Road.
By a post office was established and the following year Chester Dickinson bought the inn and job as postmaster. The inn's central location in Jefferson Township made it a popular stopping-off place for locals and it served as a temporary town hall. The township became part of the city of Chicago in an annexation. Farming in the area proved to be difficult, as the land remained marshy, and ditchdigging was the only way to maintain dry property.
Residential properties sprang up mostly in the northern and eastern sections. In neighbors formed the Portage Park District , and the following year the park district board of commissioners condemned 40 acres on the northeast corner of Irving Park Road and Central Avenue for the purpose of developing a park. Initially the commissioners tried to raise money through a property tax.
When residents objected that the tax was inequitable and that it might lead to corruption and graft, the assessment was invalidated in court. It was soon discovered, however, that the tax was an unnecessary measure, since park development was progressing without it.
A portion of the park officially opened in midsummer , and the Portage Park Citizen's Celebration Association formed to organize park events. Visitors to the park that summer enjoyed a cool swim in a small sand-bottomed lagoon. In the coming years the park became a popular gathering place as other recreational facilities were added.
In addition to the swimming lagoon, tennis courts and baseball fields were added, and in the fieldhouse was completed.
A spectacular Fourth of July festival was held, complete with parade and athletic exhibitions. Attendance reached an estimated 40, persons, who came from numerous Chicago neighborhoods. With improved transportation and the inducement of the beautiful park, developers began building homes and urban dwellers flocked to the community.
By , its population had risen to 66,
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