Austin (CTA Blue Line station)

	Austin

Location

1050 South Austin Boulevard
Oak Park, Illinois 60304

Coordinates

41°52′15″N 87°46′37″W / 41.870851°N 87.776812°W

Owned by

Chicago Transit Authority

Line(s)

Blue Line

Platforms

1 island platform

Tracks

Construction

Structure type

Surface Level

History

Opened

March 20, 1960^[1]^[2]

Traffic

Passengers (2015)

634,972^[3]

0.6% (CTA)

Rank

99 out of 143^{[lower-alpha 1]}

Services

Preceding station		Chicago "L"		Following station
Cicero toward O'Hare		Blue Line Congress Branch		Oak Park toward Forest Park

Austin is a station on the 'L' system, serving the Blue Line's Forest Park branch. It is located below South Austin Boulevard in the Eisenhower Expressway in Oak Park, Illinois. The station has an auxiliary entrance/exit at Lombard Avenue. After CTA Blue Line trains pass the station, the CTA line splits away from the Baltimore and Ohio Chicago Terminal Railroad lines letting the CTA Blue Line to continue to Chicago afterwards.

Station layout

G	Ground level	Entrance/Exit, station building
P Platform level	Southbound	← Blue Line toward Forest Park (Oak Park)
	Island platform, doors will open on the left
	Northbound	→ Blue Line toward O'Hare (Cicero) →

Bus connections

CTA

#91 Austin

Pace

#315 Austin-Ridgeland

Notes and references

Notes

↑ Due to possible double-counting of physically-connected stations, the CTA's official 2015 tally of stations was 146, but for ridership purposes reported having only 143 stations.

References

↑ "CTA to Open New Congress Right of Way". Chicago Daily Tribune. March 20, 1960. p. W3.
↑ "Congress CTA on Permanent Right of Way". Chicago Daily Tribune. March 20, 1960. p. 25.
↑ "Monthly Ridership Report – December 2015" (PDF). Chicago Transit Authority Ridership Analysis and Reporting. January 11, 2016. Retrieved March 11, 2016.

External links

Media related to Austin (CTA Blue Line) at Wikimedia Commons
Austin (Congress Line) Station Page
Lombard Avenue entrance from Google Maps Street View
Austin Boulevard entrance from Google Maps Street View

Oak Park, Illinois

Schools	Oak Park Elementary School District Oak Park and River Forest High School Fenwick High School

Attractions	Frank Lloyd Wright-Prairie School of Architecture Historic District Frank Lloyd Wright Home and Studio Unity Temple Ernest Hemingway homes and museum Edgar Rice Burroughs homes Oak Park Conservatory Oak Park-River Forest Historical Society Pleasant Home George W. Smith House Scoville Square Seward Gunderson Historic District Robert P. Parker House Horse Show Fountain Oscar B. Balch House Oak Park Arms Walter Gale House Arthur Heurtley House

Transportation	Oak Park Metra station Green Line (CTA) Blue Line (CTA)

Media	Around Oak Park Oak Park Journal Oak Leaves Irish American News Wednesday Journal

Culture and society	Oak Park Festival Theatre Prominent people from Oak Park

Township	Oak Park Township

Current CTA Stations by Line

Stations served by more than one CTA line are in bold and Purple Line Express stations are italicized in the Purple Line section

Blue Line	Addison Austin Belmont California Chicago Cicero Clark/Lake Clinton Cumberland Damen Division Forest Park Grand and Milwaukee Harlem (Congress branch) Harlem (O'Hare branch) Illinois Medical District Irving Park Jackson/Dearborn Jefferson Park Transit Center Kezie-Homan LaSalle Logan Square Monroe/Dearborn Montrose O'Hare Oak Park Pulaski Racine (Blue) Rosemont UIC-Halsted Washington/Dearborn Western (Congress branch) Western (O'Hare branch)

Brown Line	Adams/Wabash Addison Armitage Belmont Chicago Clark/Lake Damen Diversey Francisco Fullerton Harold Washington Library – State/Van Buren Irving Park Kedzie Kimball LaSalle/Van Buren Merchandise Mart (CTA station) Montrose Paulina Quincy Randolph/Wabash Rockwell Sedgwick Southport State/Lake Washington/Wells Wellington Western

Green Line	35th-Bronzeville-IIT 43rd 47th 51st Adams/Wabash Ashland Ashland/63rd Austin California Central Cermak–McCormick Place Cicero Clark/Lake Clinton/Lake Conservatory–Central Park Drive Cottage Grove Garfield Halsted Harlem/Lake Indiana Kedzie King Drive Laramie Morgan Oak Park Pulaski Randolph/Wabash Ridgeland Roosevelt State/Lake

Orange Line	35th/Archer Adams/Wabash Ashland Clark/Lake Halsted Harold Washington Library – State/Van Buren Kedzie LaSalle/Van Buren Midway Pulaski Quincy Randolph/Wabash Roosevelt State/Lake Washington/Wells Western

Pink Line	18th 54th/Cermak Adams/Wabash Ashland California Central Park Cicero Clark/Lake Clinton Damen Harold Washington Library – State/Van Buren Kedzie Kostner LaSalle/Van Buren Morgan Polk Pulaski Quincy Randolph/Wabash State/Lake Washington/Wells Western

Purple Line	Adams/Wabash Addison Armitage Belmont Central Chicago Clark/Lake Davis Dempster Diversey Foster Fullerton Harold Washington Library – State/Van Buren Howard LaSalle/Van Buren Linden Main Merchandise Mart Noyes Quincy Randolph/Wabash Sedgwick Sheridan South Boulevard State/Lake Washington/Wells Wellington Wilson

Red Line	47th 63rd 69th 79th 87th 95th/Dan Ryan Addison Argyle Belmont Berwyn Bryn Mawr Cermak–Chinatown Chicago Clark/Division Fullerton Garfield Grand/State Granville Harrison Howard Jackson/State Jarvis Lake Lawrence Loyola Monroe/State Morse North/Clybourn Roosevelt Sheridan Sox–35th Thorndale Wilson

Yellow Line	Dempster-Skokie Howard Oakton–Skokie

A CTA train heads towards the Austin station in 1968 (then known as the Congress Branch instead of the Blue Line)

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