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  2. Forest Park station - Wikipedia

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    Forest Park destination sign. Forest Park opened in 1902, as a local interurban station on the Aurora Elgin and Chicago Railway. On March 11, 1905, the Metropolitan West Side Elevated Railroad extended its Garfield Park rapid transit service west over the tracks of the Aurora Elgin and Chicago. An amusement park was located in this lot for 14 ...

  3. Forest Park station (CTA Lake Street Elevated) - Wikipedia

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    The station was opened in 1910 as part of an extension of the Lake Street "L" into the Chicago and North Western Transportation Company's Forest Park yard. The Marion station had served as the terminal of the line since 1901. [2] Passenger service was operated with a single track, but was expanded to two tracks by 1946.

  4. Forest Park, Illinois - Wikipedia

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    Forest Park (formerly Harlem) is a village in Cook County, Illinois, United States, and a suburb of Chicago.The population was 14,339 at the 2020 census. [2] The Forest Park terminal on the CTA Blue Line is the line's western terminus, located on the Eisenhower Expressway at Des Plaines Avenue. [3]

  5. Blue Line (CTA) - Wikipedia

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    The Blue Line is a 26.93-mile-long (43.34 km) Chicago "L" line which runs from O'Hare International Airport at the far northwest end of the city, through downtown via the Milwaukee–Dearborn subway and across the West Side to its southwest end in Forest Park, with a total of 33 stations (11 on the Forest Park branch, 9 in the Milwaukee–Dearborn subway and 13 on the O'Hare branch).

  6. List of Chicago "L" stations - Wikipedia

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    Forest Park † Blue — Forest Park: March 11, 1905 [51] Elevated Foster: Purple — Evanston: January 6, 1909 [52] Elevated Francisco: Brown — Albany Park: December 14, 1907: At-grade Fullerton Ⓣ Brown Purple Red — Lincoln Park: May 31, 1900 [5] Elevated Garfield Ⓣ Green — Washington Park: October 12, 1892 [53] [54] Elevated ...

  7. Western station (CTA Blue Line Forest Park branch) - Wikipedia

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    Western is a station on the 'L' system, serving the Blue Line's Forest Park branch. It is located in the median of the Eisenhower Expressway. It serves the Near West Side neighborhood and Crane Tech High School. The station is also located about 1 mile (1.6 km) north of the Western Avenue (Metra BNSF Railway Line) commuter railroad station.

  8. Lake Street Elevated - Wikipedia

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    On May 20, 1910, service was extended to its terminal approximately two blocks west of Harlem Avenue in Forest Park. In April 1948, the Lake Street Elevated was the first line of the 'L' system to use the Skip-Stop A/B service.

  9. Harlem station (CTA Blue Line Forest Park branch) - Wikipedia

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    The Aurora Elgin and Chicago Railway (AE&C) began service on August 25, 1902, and opened a station on Wisconsin Avenue by October. The Garfield Park branch , opened by the Metropolitan West Side Elevated Railroad in 1895, abutted the AE&C's line and took over local service in the area on March 11, 1905.