Harlem (CTA Blue Line Congress branch station)
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 Looking down the platform. The tracks to the left belong to the Baltimore and Ohio Chicago Terminal Railroad(now CSX). | |||||||||||
| Location |
701 South Harlem Avenue Forest Park, Illinois 60130 | ||||||||||
| Coordinates | 41°52′25″N 87°48′25″W / 41.87349°N 87.806961°W | ||||||||||
| Owned by | Chicago Transit Authority | ||||||||||
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| Platforms | 1 island platform | ||||||||||
| Tracks | 2 | ||||||||||
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| Structure type | Surface Level | ||||||||||
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| Opened | March 20, 1960[1][2] | ||||||||||
| Traffic | |||||||||||
| Passengers (2014) |
367,351[3]  6.5% (CTA) | ||||||||||
| Rank | 127 out of 143[lower-alpha 1] | ||||||||||
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Harlem is a station on the 'L' system, serving the Blue Line's Forest Park branch in Forest Park, Illinois. The station was built with an auxiliary entrance at Circle Avenue that was eventually converted to an exit only facility. The Circle Avenue entrance repoened as an auxiliary entrance/exit on September 26, 2009, at 4 PM.[4]
Harlem opened in 1960 and is composed of a main entrance on Harlem Street and an auxiliary entrance on Circle Avenue, providing access to a central platform. Harlem is open 24/7 365 days a year as part of the overnight service of the Blue Line and an annual total of 346,005 passengers have boarded the station in 2012.[5] The station is not to be confused with the other Blue Line Harlem station that is operated on the O'Hare portion of the line.
Station layout
| G | Ground level | Entrance/Exit, station building |
| P Platform level |
Southbound | ← Blue Line toward Forest Park (Terminus) |
| Island platform, doors will open on the left | ||
| Northbound | → Blue Line toward O'Hare (Oak Park) → | |
Bus connections
- #307 Harlem
See also
- Harlem (CTA Blue Line O'Hare branch station)
- Harlem (CTA Green Line station)
Notes and references
Notes
- ↑ 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
- ↑ "CTA to Open New Congress Right of Way". Chicago Daily Tribune. March 20, 1960. p. W3.
- ↑ "Congress CTA on Permanent Right of Way". Chicago Daily Tribune. March 20, 1960. p. 25.
- ↑ "Monthly Ridership Report – December 2014" (PDF). Chicago Transit Authority Ridership Analysis and Reporting. March 5, 2015. Retrieved 17 April 2015.
- ↑ "Changes to Circle Avenue Exit at the Harlem Station on Forest Park Branch" (Press release). CTA. 2009-09-25.
- ↑ "2012 Annual Ridership Report" (PDF). Chicago Transit Authority. transitchicago.com. Retrieved October 20, 2013.
External links
Media related to Harlem (CTA Blue Line Congress branch) at Wikimedia Commons
- Harlem (Congress Line) Station Page
- Circle Avenue entrance from Google Maps Street View
- Harlem Avenue entrance from Google Maps Street View
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