Oak Park (CTA Blue Line station)

Oak Park
Location 950 South Oak Park Avenue
Oak Park, Illinois 60304
Coordinates 41°52′20″N 87°47′30″W / 41.872108°N 87.791602°W
Owned by Chicago Transit Authority
Line(s)
Platforms 1 island platform
Tracks 2
Construction
Structure type Surface Level
History
Opened March 20, 1960[1][2]
Traffic
Passengers (2014) 556,353[3] Increase 2% (CTA)
Rank 107 out of 143[lower-alpha 1]
Services
Preceding station   Chicago "L"   Following station
toward O'Hare
Blue Line
Congress Branch
toward Forest Park

Oak Park is a station on the Chicago 'L' system, serving the Blue Line's Forest Park branch and Oak Park, Illinois. The station is located alongside the Eisenhower Expressway between South Oak Park Avenue and South East Avenue. The auxiliary entrance on South East Avenue is half a block from the Oak Park Conservatory.

Station layout

G Ground level Entrance/Exit, station building
P
Platform level		 Southbound ← Blue Line toward Forest Park (Harlem)
Island platform, doors will open on the left
Northbound → Blue Line toward O'Hare (Austin) →

Bus connections

Pace

Gallery

Notes and references

Notes

  1. ↑ 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

  1. ↑ "CTA to Open New Congress Right of Way". Chicago Daily Tribune. March 20, 1960. p. W3.
  2. ↑ "Congress CTA on Permanent Right of Way". Chicago Daily Tribune. March 20, 1960. p. 25.
  3. ↑ "Monthly Ridership Report – December 2014" (PDF). Chicago Transit Authority Ridership Analysis and Reporting. March 5, 2015. Retrieved 17 April 2015.

External links

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