Jackson station (CTA Red Line)

Jackson
 
300S
0E/0W
Location 230 South State Street
Chicago, Illinois 60604
Coordinates 41°52′41″N 87°37′39″W / 41.878153°N 87.627596°W / 41.878153; -87.627596
Owned by City of Chicago
Line(s)
  Red Line
Platforms 1 Island platform
Tracks 2
Connections


(Via Jackson/Dearborn)

  Blue Line


(Via Harold Washington Library – State/Van Buren)

  Orange Line
  Brown Line
  Purple Line weekday rush hours only
  Pink Line
Construction
Structure type Subway
Bicycle facilities Yes
Disabled access Yes
History
Opened October 17, 1943
Rebuilt 1989–91 (Adams-Jackson mezzanine), 1996–2000 (Jackson-Van Buren mezzanine), 2002–04 (platform)
Traffic
Passengers (2015) 3,389,970[1] Increase 0.9%
Rank 12 out of 143[lower-alpha 1]
Services
Preceding station   Chicago "L"   Following station
toward Howard
Red Line
Red Line
Rush period special
toward Ashland/63rd
Route map
 State Street
Red Line
north to Howard
Adams Street
Jackson Boulevard
Van Buren Street
Congress Parkway
Red Line
south to 95th/Dan Ryan

Jackson (also Jackson/State) is a subway station on the Chicago Transit Authority's 'L' system, serving the Red Line in the Chicago Loop. Free transfers to Blue Line trains are available at this station via a lower level transfer tunnel to the Jackson/Dearborn subway station and farecard transfers to Purple, Orange, Brown and Pink Line trains are available through the Harold Washington Library–State/Van Buren Loop Elevated station.

Jackson station in 2004 after renovation was completed

Like the Washington station, the northern extension of which was reconfigured as the Lake station, Jackson was originally double-length, with a third station mezzanine at Van Buren Street and Congress Parkway. The Van Buren-Congress mezzanine was closed on January 6, 1984, following the closure of the South Loop's main anchor, Sears, which had a direct entrance from the mezzanine. At the same time, the south end of the Jackson platform beyond the Jackson-Van Buren mezzanine was closed off with a plywood wall and both the platform area and mezzanine now remain, but abandoned. The street level entrances to the Van Buren-Congress mezzanine were removed when State Street was remodeled in 1997, replaced with access through grates, which can be seen on the sidewalks between Van Buren Street and Congress Parkway.

Jackson on the Red Line (and Blue Line) has been recognized as the station(s) with the most thefts by NBC Chicago.

Underground pedestrian tunnel connecting the Red and Blue Lines in the Loop area in Chicago.
Note the lights are artificial, not sunlight from windows.

Bus connections

CTA

Notes and references

Notes

  1. ↑ Due to possible double-counting of physically-connected stations, the CTA's official 2015 tally of stations was 146, but for ridership purposes reported having only 143 stations.

References

  1. ↑ "Annual Ridership Report – 2015" (PDF). Chicago Transit Authority Ridership Analysis and Reporting. January 13, 2016. Retrieved May 29, 2016.
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