Francisco (CTA)

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Francisco

Coordinates:	4700 N, 2900 W
Lines:	Brown
Platforms:	1 island platform
Opened:	1907
2006 passenger entrances:	277,793 11% (station was closed for 3 months)

Francisco is an 'L' station on the CTA's Brown Line. It is a surface level station with a single island platform, located in Chicago's Albany Park neighborhood at 4649 North Francisco Avenue. The adjacent stations are Kedzie, which is about ⅓ mile to the west, and Rockwell, located across the Chicago River about ⅜ mile to the east.

1 History
2 Brown Line Capacity Expansion Project
3 References
4 External links

[edit] History

Francisco Station opened on December 14, 1907 as part of Northwestern Elevated Railroad's Ravenswood line^[1]. As of 2006 the station has survived relatively untouched and, since the demolition of the neighboring Rockwell Station, it is the last of the original surface stations on this line to remain intact.

[edit] Brown Line Capacity Expansion Project

The Brown Line Capacity Expansion Project aims to allow 8 car trains on the Brown Line by the extension of the platforms at all stations. At the same time all Brown Line stations are being upgraded to meet ADA requirements. Because of the historic nature of the station structures, Francisco Station was not completely rebuilt, as with the neighboring Kedzie and Rockwell stations. However, the platforms were rebuilt, an auxiliary entrance added on North Sacramento Avenue, and the station house and canopy renovated and upgraded^[1]. The station was closed from 15 September 2006 to 9 March 2007 to allow this work to be completed^[2].

[edit] References

^ ^a ^b Francisco. Chicago-'L'.org (URL accessed September 2, 2006).
^ Francisco. CTA Countdown To A New Brown website (URL accessed September 2, 2006).