- Chicago Portage National Historic Site
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Chicago Portage National Historic Site IUCN Category V (Protected Landscape/Seascape)
Map of the U.S. state of Illinois showing the location of Chicago Portage National Historic Site
Location Cook County, Illinois, USA Nearest city Lyons, Illinois Coordinates 41°48′20″N 87°48′25″W / 41.80556°N 87.80694°WCoordinates: 41°48′20″N 87°48′25″W / 41.80556°N 87.80694°W Established 1952 Governing body National Park Service
Cook County, IllinoisThe Chicago Portage National Historic Site is a National Historic Site in Lyons, Cook County, Illinois, United States. It is located in Old Chicago Portage Forest Preserve, at the junction of Portage Creek with the Des Plaines River, just west of Harlem Avenue on the line of 48th Street. Preserved within the park is the western end of the historic portage, which began near Fort Dearborn in downtown Chicago, linking Lake Michigan to the Des Plaines River. A memorial depicting the portage of the French explorers is located in the park at about 48th Street. A trail leads from the memorial down into the portage wilderness area.
The site commemorates the Chicago Portage first discovered and used by French explorers Father Marquette and Louis Joliet during their exploration of the area between Lake Michigan and the Mississippi River.
The site, which was designated January 3, 1952 as an "affiliated area" of the National Park Service, is administered by the Forest Preserve District of Cook County.
Chicago Portage Waterway
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Portal:National Register of Historic PlacesCategories:- IUCN Category V
- National Historic Sites in Illinois
- Protected areas established in 1952
- Protected areas of Cook County, Illinois
- Illinois protected area stubs
- Chicagoland geography stubs
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