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| Address | 220 West Garfield Boulevard Chicago, Illinois 60609 |
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| Connections | CTA bus | ||||||||||
| Structure | Surface Level | ||||||||||
| Platforms | 1 Island platform | ||||||||||
| Tracks | 2 | ||||||||||
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| Opened | September 28, 1969 | ||||||||||
| Rebuilt | 2005-06 | ||||||||||
| Owned by | Chicago Transit Authority | ||||||||||
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| Passengers (2009) | 1,328,041[1] 0.8% | ||||||||||
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Garfield is a station on the Chicago Transit Authority's 'L' system, serving the Red Line.
This is the stop of choice on the Red Line for persons trying to get to the University of Chicago or the Museum of Science and Industry.
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Like the nine other stations of Dan Ryan Branch, Garfield Station was built by the cabinet of architect Skidmore, Owings & Merrill under a simple design and the most functional possible one. It opened its doors on September 28, 1969 before being entirely renovated in 2006. The restoration will have allowed the embellishment of the station (very obsolete and impersonal) thanks to the installation of a work of art in the main entrance of the station. The only difference with respect to its colleagues of Dan Ryan Branch, it is that for technical reasons a canopy identical to the others could not be added. Garfield station thus contains its original canopy, and the covered zones before restoration were it thanks to the stowing of panels, installed in a different way with bridge which overhangs the Dan Ryan Expressway.[2]