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Help Improve Portage Park Playground!
A safe and beautiful playground serves as a place for children to get exercise, make new friends and enjoy their community. For parents, caregivers and community people it is a reflection of a vibrant community. It is a place to meet diverse people, discuss parenting issues and community issues, and it serves as a common place to unite as a whole. The Portage Park Playground Committee is requesting  that the playground equipment and surrounding area be upgraded with new equipment, soft rubber surface, sprinklers, benches, tables, and landscaping.

Existing Playground

Join us at our next meeting on Tuesday, October 2 at the Portage Park Senior Center (on Berteau between Central and Long), 2nd Floor, at 7:00 p.m. For further information, email us.

Portage Park Neighborhood Association Parks Committee/Portage Park Advisory Council Meeting
Tues. Apr. 1, 2008
7:30 p.m.
Portage Park - Senior Center (just south of parking lot off of Berteau - next to swimming pool)

Chicago Kids Identification System

Metropolitan Family Services - North Center

Metropolitan Family Services - North Center, located at 3249 North Central Avenue, serves Chicago's northwest side families and communities of Portage Park, Belmont-Cragin, Irving Park and Hermosa.

This new center provides much-needed services to communities where the population of youth under 18 is growing more rapidly than anywhere else in the city. The new North Center provides a gathering place where youth, their families and the community can work together for a future full of hope and opportunity.

Currently, North Center offers 10 programs, including general family and individual counseling services; domestic violence intervention; in-home counseling and support for teen mothers; parent involvement programs and after school enrichment programs in local schools; counseling and support for older adults and their caregivers; financial literacy; and community development. North Center provided services to 1,400 families last year. These services are provided in both Spanish and Polish when needed.

For more information call (773)371-3701 or e-mail Sandra Stumme stummes@metrofamily.org.

updated 02/28/2006 | comments