O'Hare (CTA station)
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1000 O'Hare Drive Chicago, Illinois 60666 | ||||||||||
| Coordinates | 41°58′52″N 87°54′03″W / 41.981127°N 87.900876°W | ||||||||||
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Airport Transit System Pace Buses | ||||||||||
| Structure type | Subway | ||||||||||
| Platforms | 2 island platforms | ||||||||||
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3 Depth 25 ft | ||||||||||
| Bicycle facilities | Yes | ||||||||||
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| Opened | September 3, 1984 | ||||||||||
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| Owned by | Chicago Transit Authority | ||||||||||
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| Passengers (2012) | 3,532,031  6% | ||||||||||
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O'Hare is the 'L' station at the northwestern terminus of the CTA's Blue Line. It is a subway station with two island platforms serving three tracks, located at O'Hare International Airport, 17 miles (27 km) northwest of the Chicago Loop. Trains are scheduled to depart from O'Hare roughly every 2-7 minutes during rush-hour periods and take about 40 minutes to travel to the Loop. It is the westernmost station of the 'L' system. It is also the only CTA station without coordinates in Chicago's grid system, as O'Hare Airport lines up with no street in the city. Since its opening, there were rumors of an extension westward to Schaumburg, either in the Tollway Median or parallelling Higgins Road. This was eventually cancelled when Metra planned a first of its kind trans-suburban commuter line known as the Suburban Transit Access Route.
Station layout
| G | Ground level | Entrance/Exit, to O'Hare International Airport terminals |
| P Platform level |
Southbound | ← Blue Line exit platform for passengers only → Blue Line toward Forest Park (Rosemont) → |
| Island platform, doors will open on the left, right | ||
| Southbound | ← Blue Line exit platform for passengers only → Blue Line toward Forest Park (Rosemont) → | |
| Island platform, doors will open on the left, right | ||
| Southbound | ← Blue Line exit platform for passengers only → Blue Line toward Forest Park (Rosemont) → | |
History
O'Hare station opened on September 3, 1984, as the terminus of an extension of the Blue Line from its former terminal at River Road.[1] It was built to a design by the architectural firm Murphy/Jahn.<ref name=Chicago-"L".org>Garfield, Graham. "O'Hare". Chicago-"L".org. Retrieved September 30, 2006.</ref>
Bus and rail connections
Take Airport Transit System to Remote Parking Stop to access connections
- #250 Dempster Street
- #330 Manneheim-LaGrange Roads
References
- ↑ Papajohn, George (September 4, 1984). "O'Hare's 'L' Service Gets Inaugural Cheer". Chicago Tribune. p. A1.
External links
Media related to O'Hare (CTA) at Wikimedia Commons