Irving Park station (CTA Blue Line)

Irving Park
Location 4131 West Irving Park Road
Chicago, Illinois 60641
Coordinates 41°57′11″N 87°43′45″W / 41.952964°N 87.729263°W / 41.952964; -87.729263
Owned by Chicago Transit Authority
Line(s)
  Blue Line
Platforms 1 Island platform
Tracks 2
Connections
  Union Pacific Northwest

CTA Buses

Construction
Structure type Elevated
Bicycle facilities Yes
History
Opened February 1, 1970
Rebuilt 2016
Traffic
Passengers (2015) 1,438,569[1] Increase 3.6% (CTA)
Rank 50 out of 143[lower-alpha 1]
Services
Preceding station   Chicago "L"   Following station
toward O'Hare
Blue Line
toward Forest Park
Metra
toward Harvard or McHenry
Union Pacific Northwest
Transfer at: Irving Park
toward Ogilvie
Route map
Legend

Kennedy
Expressway

I-90 / I-94

Blue Line
northwest to O'Hare

Pulaski Road

Irving Park Road

Blue Line
southeast to Forest Park

Kennedy Expressway
Reversible lanes

Irving Park is a station on the Chicago Transit Authority's 'L' system, serving the Blue Line. The station is located in the median of the Kennedy Expressway in the Irving Park neighborhood. Irving Park is one of two stations that stops in a highway median where the entrance is below the platform; Rosemont is the other, specifically beneath the westbound lane of the Kennedy Expressway.[2] The station opened in 1970 as a part of the Kennedy extension of the Milwaukee Elevated from Logan Square to Jefferson Park.


Bus and rail connections

Metra

CTA

Notes and references

Notes

  1. ↑ 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

  1. ↑ "Monthly Ridership Report – December 2015" (PDF). Chicago Transit Authority Ridership Analysis and Reporting. January 11, 2016. Retrieved March 11, 2016.
  2. ↑ Rosemont Blue Line (Chicago "L".org)

External links

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