Roosevelt station (CTA)

Roosevelt   1200S 1E/1W Roosevelt   50E 1200S
Roosevelt/State's Red Line subway platform
Location	1167 South State Street Chicago, Illinois 60605
Coordinates	41°52′03″N 87°37′39″W / 41.867368°N 87.627402°W / 41.867368; -87.627402
Owned by	City of Chicago
Line(s)	Red Line   Orange Line   Green Line
Platforms	2 Island platforms (Elevated and subway)
Tracks	4
Connections	at Museum Campus/11th Street station   Metra Electric District   South Shore Line
Construction
Structure type	Subway and elevated
Bicycle facilities	Yes
Disabled access	Yes
History
Opened	Elevated: June 6, 1892 Subway: October 17, 1943
Rebuilt	Elevated: 1993 Subway: 1996
Traffic
Passengers (2015)	3,816,017[1]  3.2%
Rank	8 out of 143[lower-alpha 1]
Services
Preceding station   Chicago "L"   Following station Harrison toward Howard Red Line State Street Subway Cermak–Chinatown toward 95th/Dan Ryan Red Line Rush period special Cermak–McCormick Place toward Ashland/63rd Halsted toward Midway Orange Line South Side Elevated Harold Washington Library – State/Van Buren toward The Loop (Loop-bound terminus) Adams/Wabash One-way operation Adams/Wabash toward Harlem/Lake Green Line South Side Elevated Cermak–McCormick Place toward Ashland/63rd or Cottage Grove
Route map State Street Red Line north to Howard Green and Orange Line north to Harlem/Lake and Loop Roosevelt Road Red Line south to 95th/Dan Ryan Green and Orange Line south to Ashland/63rd, Cottage Grove, and Midway

Roosevelt is a station on the Chicago Transit Authority's 'L' system, located in between the Chicago Loop and the Near South Side in Chicago, Illinois. It is situated at 1167 S State Street, just north of Roosevelt Road, and serves the Red, Green and Orange lines. The station is also the closest 'L' station to the Museum Campus of Chicago and Soldier Field, which are about ¹⁄₂ mile (800 m) to the east. The Museum Campus/11th Street Metra station is also about ¹⁄₃ mile (500 m) to the east.

History and description

Elevated station

Roosevelt/Wabash elevated platform

An elevated station at Roosevelt Road opened on June 6, 1892, as part of the Chicago and South Side Rapid Transit Railroad, the first elevated rapid transit line in Chicago.^[2] From 1919 to 1963 interurban trains of the North Shore Line also used the station. 'L' service through the station was discontinued in 1949 when CTA routed all trains from the Englewood and Jackson Park branches through the State Street Subway, using the 13th street portal, forming the North-South Route (a precursor of today's Red Line), and following the bankruptcy of the North Shore Line in 1963 the station was closed completely and demolished. 'L' service resumed passing the site of the original station in 1969 when the CTA began to route Dan Ryan trains into the Loop and a new elevated station was constructed in 1993 as part of the construction of the Orange Line.

Subway station

The subway station at Roosevelt Road opened on October 17, 1943, as part of the State Street Subway.^[3] In 1993, when the new elevated station was constructed it was intended that there should be a direct link to the subway, however, due to lack of money this was not initially built. In 2002, the stations were finally linked as a single facility through the Roosevelt transfer tunnel.

Bus connections

CTA Buses^[4]

• 12 Roosevelt
• 18 16th/18th
• 29 State
• 62 Archer (Owl Service)
• 130 Museum Campus
• 146 Inner Drive/Michigan Express
• 192 University of Chicago Hospitals Express

Notes and references

Notes

References

External links

• Media related to Roosevelt (CTA) at Wikimedia Commons
• Roosevelt Station on the CTA website
• Roosevelt/State station page at Chicago-L.org
• Roosevelt/Wabash station page at Chicago-L.org