Harlem station (CTA Blue Line Congress branch)

Harlem is a station on the 'L' system, serving the Blue Line's Forest Park branch in Forest Park, Illinois. The station was built with an auxiliary entrance at Circle Avenue that was eventually converted to an exit only facility. The Circle Avenue entrance reopened as an auxiliary entrance/exit on September 26, 2009, at 4 PM.[4] To the south of the station is the Ferrara Candy Company (formerly Ferrara Pan [the "Pan" part of the name was dropped in 2012.]) A Roos chest-making factory was located west of the station and Circle Avenue until it was torn down in 2013 to make way for a new recreation park that opened there in 2018. The Roos company closed for good in 1951.

Harlem
 
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Chicago 'L' rapid transit station
Looking down the platform. The tracks to the left belong to the Baltimore and Ohio Chicago Terminal Railroad with a pair of hopper cars at the Ferrara Candy Company also to the left. The building behind the Circle Ave. bridge in the background was the old Roos (rhymes with 'moose') chest making factory that was torn down in 2013 after the company ran from 1918 to 1951.
Location701 South Harlem Avenue
Forest Park, Illinois 60130
Coordinates41.87349°N 87.806961°W / 41.87349; -87.806961
Owned byChicago Transit Authority
Line(s)Forest Park Branch
Platforms1 island platform
Tracks2
Construction
Structure typeExpressway median
History
OpenedMarch 20, 1960[1][2]
Passengers
2019344,096[3] 8.4% (CTA)
Rank119 out of 143
Services
Preceding station Chicago "L" Following station
Forest Park
Terminus
Blue Line
Oak Park
toward O'Hare
Former services
Preceding station Chicago Terminal Transfer Railroad Following station
Forest Home
toward Thatcher's Park
Chicago & Northern Pacific – Main Line Kirwin
toward Chicago
Track layout
Blue Line
east to O'Hare
I-290
Harlem Ave.
B&OCT
Circle Ave.
Blue Line
west to Forest Park

Harlem opened in 1960 and is composed of a main entrance on Harlem Avenue and an auxiliary entrance on Circle Avenue, providing access to the station's platform. Harlem is open 24/7 365 days a year as part of the overnight service of the Blue Line and an annual total of 346,005 passengers have boarded the station in 2012.[5] The station is not to be confused with the Blue Line's other station on Harlem Avenue that is located on the Kennedy Expressway portion of the line.

Bus connections

Pace

  • 307 Harlem

See also

Notes and references

Notes

    References

    1. "CTA to Open New Congress Right of Way". Chicago Daily Tribune. March 20, 1960. p. W3.
    2. "Congress CTA on Permanent Right of Way". Chicago Daily Tribune. March 20, 1960. p. 25.
    3. "Monthly Ridership Report December 2019" (PDF). Chicago Transit Authority, Ridership Analysis and Reporting. January 13, 2020. Retrieved March 19, 2020.
    4. "Changes to Circle Avenue Exit at the Harlem Station on Forest Park Branch" (Press release). CTA. 2009-09-25.
    5. "2012 Annual Ridership Report" (PDF). Chicago Transit Authority. transitchicago.com. Archived from the original (PDF) on February 4, 2018. Retrieved October 20, 2013.

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    The station from the Circle Avenue overpass.


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