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Portage Theater

2003 Photo from the Adam Martin collection.

Portage Theater Group
4050 N Milwaukee Ave
Chicago IL 60641
(773) 283-7244

	Record #6165
Opened: December 11, 1920	Capacity: 1321 seats Architect(s): Architectural Style(s): Neo-Classical National Register: Current Organ: none
Also Known As: Portage Park
Previously operated by: Balaban & Katz Theatres, ABC Great States Theatres

Information for this tour was contributed by Michael Pompili.

This theater reopened on May 19, 2006 and is showing silent and classic movies, as well as some independent and foreign films. An Allen digital organ has been installed. Seating capacity was orginally 1,938 and is now 1,321.

The Portage closed again on May 25, 2013. It reopened on June 13, 2015.

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February 2003 photos from the Adam Martin collection.

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Photos from the Norman Plant collection.

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Last featured 10/31/2004. Last edited 11/15/2018.

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