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Chicago, (Chicago/Franklin in station announcements) is an 'L' station on the CTA's Brown and Purple Lines.Located in the Near North Side neighborhood at 300 W Chicago Avenue at West Chicago Avenue and North Franklin Street in Chicago, Illinois (directional coordinates 800 North, 300 West), the station opened in 1900 as part of the original series of stations on the Northwestern Elevated.
The Brown Line of the Chicago "L" system, is an 11.4-mile (18.3 km) route with 27 stations between Chicago's Albany Park neighborhood and downtown Chicago. It runs completely above ground and is almost entirely grade-separated. It is the third-busiest 'L' route, with an average of 33,302 passengers boarding each weekday in 2023. [2]
City of Chicago (Ill.), Department of Public Works. Chicago Transit Authority. "Transit Planning Study Chicago Central Area (P-ILL. 3254)." 1968. Chicago. Volume I. Print. City of Chicago (Ill.). Chicago Urban Transportation District. "Chicago-Franklin Line Rail Rapid Transit Project, Draft Environmental Impact Statement (UMTA, IL-23-2005 ...
However, the hours of express operation were expanded on December 16, 2001, for a 180-day trial period. Trains departed Linden for downtown one hour earlier in the morning rush and one hour later in the evening rush. [28] The expanded hours were later made permanent and in 2004 afternoon rush service was also revised to begin 25 minutes earlier ...
Tufano's Vernon Park Tap is an Italian restaurant in Chicago, Illinois, United States. Joey DiBuono is the owner. [1] The restaurant has appeared on the Food Network series Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives. [2]
The Red Line is a rapid transit line in Chicago, run by the Chicago Transit Authority (CTA) as part of the Chicago "L" system. It is the busiest line on the "L" system, with an average of 108,303 passengers boarding each weekday in 2023 [1] The route is 21.8 miles (35.1 km) long with a total of 33 stations.
The Franklin Street Terminal was a rapid transit station on the Chicago "L" that was the eastern terminus of the Metropolitan West Side Elevated Railroad from 1895 to 1897. The Metropolitan had intended to construct its eastern end at Fifth Avenue, a block east of Franklin Street, but right-of-way acquisition costs had proven prohibitive so it settled on Franklin Street to house its terminal ...
The station opened on June 22, 1958, and is almost identical to every other station built in the median of the Eisenhower Expressway, including an island platform, a small station house on Racine's and Loomis's overpass containing only a ticket booth and turnstiles and a long passageway ramp connecting the two.