Jackson station (CTA Red Line)

Jackson
Location 230 South State Street
Chicago, Illinois 60604
Coordinates 41°52′41″N 87°37′39″W / 41.878153°N 87.627596°W / 41.878153; -87.627596
Owned by City of Chicago
Line(s)
  Red Line
Platforms 1 Island platform
Tracks 2
Connections


(Via Jackson/Dearborn)

  Blue Line


(Via Harold Washington Library – State/Van Buren)

  Orange Line
  Brown Line
  Purple Line weekday rush hours only
  Pink Line
Construction
Structure type Subway
Bicycle facilities Yes
Disabled access Yes
History
Opened October 17, 1943
Rebuilt 1989–91 (Adams-Jackson mezzanine), 1996–2000 (Jackson-Van Buren mezzanine), 2002–04 (platform)
Traffic
Passengers (2014) 3,361,320[1] Increase 5.6%
Rank 11 out of 143[lower-alpha 1]
Services
Preceding station   Chicago "L"   Following station
toward Howard
Red Line
  Tunnel transfer  
toward O'Hare
Blue Line
Transfer at: Jackson
toward Forest Park
  Walking farecard transfer  
One-way operation
Brown Line
toward Kimball
One-way operation
Orange Line
toward Midway
One-way operation
Purple Line
toward Linden
Pink Line
toward 54th/Cermak
Route map
Legend

 State Street

Red Line
north to Howard

Adams Street

Jackson Boulevard

Van Buren Street

Congress Parkway
Red Line
south to 95th/Dan Ryan

Jackson (also Jackson/State) is a subway station on the Chicago Transit Authority's 'L' system, serving the Red Line in the Chicago Loop. Free transfers to Blue Line trains are available at this station via a lower level transfer tunnel to the Jackson/Dearborn subway station and farecard transfers to Purple, Orange, Brown and Pink Line trains are available through the Harold Washington Library–State/Van Buren Loop Elevated station.

Jackson station in 2004 after renovation was completed

Like the Washington station, the northern extension of which was reconfigured as the Lake station, Jackson was originally double-length, with a third station mezzanine at Van Buren Street and Congress Parkway. The Van Buren-Congress mezzanine was closed on January 6, 1984, following the closure of the South Loop's main anchor, Sears, which had a direct entrance from the mezzanine. At the same time, the south end of the Jackson platform beyond the Jackson-Van Buren mezzanine was closed off with a plywood wall and both the platform area and mezzanine now remain, but abandoned. The street level entrances to the Van Buren-Congress mezzanine were removed when State Street was remodeled in 1997, replaced with access through grates, which can be seen on the sidewalks between Van Buren Street and Congress Parkway.

Jackson on the Red Line (and Blue Line) has been recognized as the station(s) with the most thefts by NBC Chicago.

Underground pedestrian tunnel connecting the Red and Blue Lines in the Loop area in Chicago.
Note the lights are artificial, not sunlight from windows.

Bus connections

CTA

Notes and references

Notes

  1. ↑ Due to possible double-counting of physically-connected stations, the CTA's official 2014 tally of stations was 145, but for ridership purposes reported having only 143 stations.

References

  1. ↑ "Monthly Ridership Report – December 2014" (PDF). Chicago Transit Authority Ridership Analysis and Reporting. March 5, 2015. Retrieved May 1, 2015.

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