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[1] [2] The Metra system has a total of 243 active stations spread out on 11 rail lines with 487.5 miles (784.6 km) of tracks. [1] [3] As of May 2024, an infill station, Auburn Park, is currently under construction on the Rock Island District. The newest Metra station in the Edgewater neighborhood of Chicago opened on May 20, 2024.
Rapid transit stations on the Chicago "L" Station Lines Transfers Location Opened Structure 18th: Pink — Pilsen: April 28, 1896 [16] Elevated 35th–Bronzeville–IIT: Green: Metra: RI (at Jones/Bronzeville) Bronzeville: June 6, 1892 [3] Elevated 35th/Archer: Orange — McKinley Park: October 31, 1993 [7] Elevated 43rd: Green — Grand ...
The Chicago "L" (short for "elevated") [4] is the rapid transit system serving the city of Chicago and some of its surrounding suburbs in the U.S. state of Illinois.Operated by the Chicago Transit Authority (CTA), it is the fourth-largest rapid transit system in the United States in terms of total route length, at 102.8 miles (165.4 km) long as of 2014, [1] [note 1] and the third-busiest rapid ...
As Great Central Station, Randolph Street Terminal, along with Van Buren Street a few blocks south, was IC's primary downtown Chicago terminal until the completion in 1893 of Central Station (closed 1972) just south of Grant Park at today's Roosevelt Road. It still received many trains thereafter, but was of secondary importance.
0–9. 18th Street station (Illinois) 27th Street station; 47th Street (Kenwood) station; 51st–53rd Street (Hyde Park) station; 55th–56th–57th Street station
A station typology adopted by the Chicago Plan Commission on October 16, 2014, assigns the 115th Street/Kensington station a typology of Local Activity Center. A Local Activity Center typology is primarily characterized by the Metra station being the central focus of a built-up and identifiable neighborhood. [4] Photo of the original Kensington ...
Bartlett is a commuter railroad station in Bartlett, Illinois, a western suburb of Chicago. The station is 30.1 miles (48.4 km) away from Chicago Union Station, the eastern terminus of the line. [2] It is served by Metra's Milwaukee District West Line, with service to Union Station in downtown Chicago, and northwest to Elgin.
Merchandise Mart [2] [3] is a station on the Chicago Transit Authority's 'L' system, located in the Near North Side neighborhood at 350 North Wells Street in Chicago, Illinois (directional coordinates 320 north, 200 west). The station is elevated above street level, on a steel structure.