LaSalle (CTA Blue Line station)

LaSalle
Station statistics
Address 150 West Congress Parkway
Chicago, Illinois 60605
Lines
  Blue Line
Structure Subway
Platforms 1 island platform
Tracks 2
Bicycle facilities Yes
Other information
Opened February 25, 1951
Owned by Chicago Transit Authority
Formerly Congress Terminal
Traffic
Passengers (2008) 815,187  7.8% (CTA)
Services
Preceding station   Chicago 'L'   Following station
toward O'Hare
 Blue Line

LaSalle is an 'L' station on the Chicago Transit Authority's Blue Line. It is a subway station with a single island platform located at 150 West Congress Parkway in the Loop district of Chicago, Illinois. It is the closest station to LaSalle Street Station,[1] terminal for Rock Island District Metra trains.

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History

LaSalle station opened on February 25, 1951, as the southern terminal of the Milwaukee-Dearborn subway on the CTA's Milwaukee Avenue route.[2] It remained a terminal station until it was linked to the new Congress Expressway route in 1958.

Bus connections

CTA

References

  1. ^ Garfield, Graham. "LaSalle". Chicago "L".org. http://www.chicago-l.org/stations/lasalle-congress.html. Retrieved 2008-02-17. 
  2. ^ Borzo, Greg (2007). "Chapter Nine: Finally a Subway". The Chicago "L". Chicago: Arcadia Publishing. pp. 91–102. ISBN 978-0-7385-5100-5. 

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