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Ashland Avenue is a north-south street in Chicago, in whose grid system it is designated as 1600W. It is 2 miles (3.2 km) west of State Street , the city's north-south baseline. It is one of the major streets on the city's west side.
Ashland/63rd is an 'L' station and the terminal of the CTA Green Line's Ashland branch, located in the West Englewood neighborhood of Chicago, Illinois. Situating at 6315 S. Ashland Avenue, the station contains a Park 'n' ride lot with 235 spaces as well as a Kiss 'n' Ride lane. This is one of two stations on the Green Line to be named Ashland.
Ashland station opened on November 6, 1893, as part of the Lake Street Elevated Railroad's initial route, [2] and it is one of the oldest standing stations on the 'L'. The station closed on April 4, 1948, along with nine other stations on the Lake Street branch, [3] but later reopened on February 25, 1951, the same day the Milwaukee-Dearborn subway opened for service. [4]
Ashland is a station on the Chicago Transit Authority's 'L' system, serving the Orange Line. It is located at the intersection of Ashland Avenue and 31st Street near the Stevenson Expressway . Although located within the Lower West Side community area, the station mostly serves the Bridgeport and McKinley Park neighborhoods.
63rd is a station on the Chicago Transit Authority's 'L' system, serving the Red Line. The station is located in the median of the Dan Ryan Expressway and serves the Englewood neighborhood. It is near the former site of the Englewood Union Station, which served the Pennsylvania Railroad, New York Central, and Rock Island Lines.
The Ashland branch, formerly known as the Englewood branch, is a 3.0 mi (4.8 km) long branch of the Chicago "L" currently operated as the Green Line, serving the Englewood and West Englewood neighborhoods of Chicago, Illinois.
Pulaski Park is a neighborhood directly west of Goose Island and east of Wicker Park. The generally accepted boundaries of Pulaski Park are Ashland (1600 W) to the west, the Chicago River and Elston Avenue to the east, the Bloomingdale Line on the north, and Chicago (800 N) on the south (although some people extend the southern border only to Division Street).
At its largest area, The Yards covered nearly 1 square mile (3 km 2) of land, from Halsted Street to Ashland Avenue and from 39th (now Pershing Rd.) to 47th Streets. [7] [10] General view of the Union Stock Yards, 1901. At one time, 500,000 US gallons (2,000 m 3) a day of Chicago River water were pumped into the stockyards.