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In Chicago's street grid, Kedzie Avenue is located at 3200 West, 4 miles (6.4 km) west of State Street (0 East/West). Between Palmer Street (2200 North) and Logan Boulevard (2600 North), Kedzie Avenue is part of Chicago's boulevard system and, as such, is signed as Kedzie Boulevard .
Kedzie was a rapid transit station on the Chicago "L", serving the Garfield Park branch of its Metropolitan West Side Elevated Railroad, from 1895 to 1958.Between 1905 and 1953, it also served the Chicago Aurora and Elgin Railroad (CA&E), an interurban using Garfield Park tracks, between 1905 and 1953.
Kedzie is a station on the Chicago Transit Authority's 'L' system, serving the Green Line and the East Garfield Park neighborhood. It opened in March 1894, and is three blocks south of Metra's Kedzie station on the Union Pacific West Line. It is also near the Chicago Center for Green Technology.
As of February 16, 2024, Kedzie is served by 35 trains (18 inbound and 17 outbound) on weekdays. No passenger trains stop at Kedzie station on weekends or holidays. As of 2018 [update] , Kedzie is the 214th busiest of the 236 non-downtown stations in the Metra system, with an average of 41 weekday boardings.
It is an at-grade station located in Chicago's Albany Park neighborhood at 4648 North Kedzie, with an auxiliary entrance at 4649 North Spaulding Avenue. The adjacent stations are Kimball , the terminus of the line about one third of a mile (0.536 km) to the north west, and Francisco , which is located about one third of a mile (0.536 km) to the ...
On June 9, 1940, service in Indiana was converted to buses and removed. That same day, it was rerouted in Illinois, replacing the streetcar portion of Route 32, and the route was renamed 30 South Chicago-Ewing. Route was converted to buses on June 30, 1947, and 30 South Chicago-Ewing merged with 25 Hegewisch to form the 30 South Chicago in 1952.
Media related to Kedzie (CTA Orange Line) at Wikimedia Commons Chicago "L".org Stations - Kedzie/49th; CTA - Train schedule: Orange; Ridership figures, 2009 (172 KiB) Kedzie Station Page CTA official site; Kedzie Avenue entrance from Google Maps Street View
Kedzie–Homan was named Kedzie until the early 1990s, when the name was changed to Kedzie–Homan. However, signs on the platform still referred to the station as Kedzie until 2013, when signs with Kedzie-Homan were installed. [citation needed] In 2000–2001, Kedzie–Homan was renovated with a number of improvements for $2.6 million.