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The Rock Island District (RI) is a Metra commuter rail line from Chicago, Illinois, southwest to Joliet. Metra does not refer to its lines by color, but the timetable accents for the Rock Island District line are "Rocket Red" in honor of the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad 's Rocket passenger trains.
This is a list of major infrastructure on the Northeast Corridor, a rail line running through the Northeastern United States.The list includes major interlockings, bridges, tunnels, and past and present stations, including the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority's Orange Line, the Washington Metro's Orange Line, and PATH stations on separate tracks but sharing the right-of-way.
Chicago 'L' rapid transit station: General information; Location: 150 West Ida B. Wells Drive Chicago, Illinois 60605: Coordinates: Owned by: City of Chicago: Line(s) Milwaukee–Dearborn subway: Platforms: 1 island platform: Tracks: 2: Connections: RI at LaSalle Street: Construction; Structure type
At the same time, Governor Pat Quinn convened the Northeastern Illinois Public Transit Task Force to study potential reforms - this group concluded that Metra, the CTA, and Pace should be consolidated into one agency. [54] [55] [56] Chicago mayor Rahm Emanuel opposed consolidation as reducing accountability to voters. [57]
The station was a few meters from the Hawthorne plant of the Western Electric which was one of the largest employers in the area of Chicago at the time. On December 16, 1907, the Douglas Park branch was extended to Cicero (then 48th Avenue ), extending service to the town of Cicero, Illinois.
Green/Orange Line elevated platform. An elevated station at Roosevelt 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.
The State Street subway project was funded by New Deal programs established by Franklin D. Roosevelt during the Great Depression.In 1937, the city of Chicago successfully applied for a federal grant and loan from the Works Progress Administration to fund the construction of two subway tunnels, the first of which would be built beneath State Street and the second beneath Milwaukee Avenue and ...
Prior to the 1990s, the station was known as River Road, as the CTA did not feel that the names of stations should advertise cities outside Chicago limits. The station name was changed in the mid-1990s, around the same time that the Dempster–Skokie and Des Plaines terminals on the Yellow and Blue Lines were renamed to reflect the suburb they ...