Portage Theater

Located at Six Corners in the Portage Park neighborhood of Chicago's Northwest Side, the Portage Theater is one of the oldest movie houses in Chicago. The Portage Theater opened on December 11, 1920 as the Portage Park Theatre.

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Type: Movie theater
Description: movie theater in Chicago, Illinois, United States
Also known as: “Portage Park Theatre” and “Portage Theatre”
Address: 4050 North Milwaukee Avenue, Chicago, IL 60641

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include National Veterans Art Museum and Dickinson Park.

National Veterans Art Museum

Museum

The National Veterans Art Museum in Portage Park, Chicago displays art produced by veterans from the Vietnam War and other wars and conflicts. Originally a traveling exhibition, while in Chicago it was viewed by Mayor Richard M.

Dickinson Park

Park

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Mayfair station

Railway station

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Mayfair is a Metra station located on the Milwaukee District North Line on the border between the Albany Park and Portage Park community areas of Chicago, Illinois. Mayfair station is situated 2,400 feet north of Portage Theater.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Irving Park and Portage Park.

Irving Park

Suburb

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Irving Park is one of the 77 community areas of Chicago in Illinois, United States, and is located on the city's Northwest Side. It is bounded by the Chicago River on the east, the Milwaukee Road railroad tracks on the west, Addison Street on the south and…

Portage Park

Suburb

Photo: Orestek, Public domain.

Portage Park is one of the 77 community areas of Chicago in Illinois, United States, located on the northwest side of Chicago. Portage Park is bordered by the community areas of Jefferson Park and Forest Glen to the north, Dunning and the suburb of Harwood Heights to the west, Irving Park to the east and Belmont-Cragin to the south.

Jefferson Park

Suburb

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Jefferson Park is one of the 77 community areas of Chicago in Illinois, United States, located on the northwest side of the city. It is also named after Thomas Jefferson, the third U.S. president and the Founding Father who was the main writer of the Declaration of Independence.

Portage Theater

Categories: building and commercial building
Location: Chicago, Cook, Chicagoland, Illinois, Midwest, United States, North America
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Latitude

41.95418° or 41° 57′ 15″ north

Longitude

-87.74925° or 87° 44′ 57″ west

Elevation

610 feet (186 metres)

Open location code

86HJX732+M7

OpenStreetMap ID

way 162646695

OpenStreetMap feature

amenity=cinema

OpenStreetMap feature

building=commercial

GeoNames ID

8498734

Wikidata ID

Q7231440

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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From French to Spanish—“Portage Theater” goes by many names.

French: “Portage Theatre”
German: “Portage Theatre”
Japanese: “ポーテージ劇場”
Spanish: “Portage Theatre”

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