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The Oak Park station house in 2024. Oak Park is a station on the Chicago Transit Authority's 'L' system situated between the Ridgeland and Harlem stations on the Green Line.It is located at Oak Park Avenue and South Boulevard in the village of Oak Park, Illinois and is the closest station to the Frank Lloyd Wright Home and Studio.
It is served by Metra's Union Pacific West Line, with service east to Ogilvie Transportation Center in Chicago and as far west as Elburn, Illinois. Travel time to Chicago is 16 to 20 minutes. As of 2018, Oak Park is the 52nd busiest of the 236 non-downtown stations in the Metra system, with an average of 991 weekday boardings. [1]
Oak Park station (Metra) Topics referred to by the same term This disambiguation page lists articles about railway and public transport stations with the same name.
Metra: UP-W (at Oak Park) Oak Park: October 28, 1962 [56] [57] Elevated Harold Washington Library State/Van Buren Ⓣ Brown Orange Pink Purple: Blue (at Jackson) Red (at Jackson) Metra: ME (at Van Buren Street) NICTD: (at Van Buren Street) Harold Washington Library Center: June 22, 1997 [58] Elevated Harrison: Red — South Loop: October 17 ...
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 alongside the Eisenhower Expressway between Oak Park Avenue and East Avenue, near the Oak Park Conservatory. The auxiliary entrance on East Avenue is half a block from the Oak Park Conservatory.
The line(s) that stop at the station Rail connections Any rail connections that can be made from the station Location The municipality or Chicago neighborhood in which the station is located Fare zone Identifies which of the four fare zones the station is in. The zones are numbered, with Zone 1 consisting of downtown Chicago. [7] † A terminal ...
It extends for 20.695 miles (33.305 km), with 31 stations between Oak Park/Forest Park (Harlem/Lake) and Chicago's West Side, to the Loop, and then to the South Side neighborhoods of West Englewood (Ashland/63rd) and Woodlawn (Cottage Grove/63rd). As of 2022, 22,748 passengers board this line each weekday.
The average Chicago commuter spends 86 minutes every day traveling to and from work on public transit. Of public transit riders, 28.% ride for more than 2 hours every day. On average, commuters wait at stops or stations for 15 minutes; 21% of riders wait for over 20 minutes.