Jackson station (CTA Red Line)

Jackson (also Jackson/State) is an 'L' station on the CTA's Red Line in the Loop. Free transfers to Blue Line trains are available at this station via a lower level transfer tunnel to the Jackson/Dearborn subway station and farecard transfers to Purple, Orange, Brown and Pink Line trains are available via the Harold Washington Library – State/Van Buren Loop Elevated station.

Jackson   300S 0E/0W
Chicago 'L' rapid transit station
Location	230 South State Street Chicago, Illinois 60604
Coordinates	41.878153°N 87.627596°W / 41.878153; -87.627596
Owned by	City of Chicago
Line(s)	State Street Subway
Platforms	1 Island platform
Tracks	2
Connections	Blue at Jackson Brown Orange Purple Pink at Harold Washington Library – State/Van Buren
Construction
Structure type	Subway
Bicycle facilities	Yes
Disabled access	Yes
History
Opened	October 17, 1943
Rebuilt	1989–91 (Adams-Jackson mezzanine), 1996–2000 (Jackson-Van Buren mezzanine), 2002–04 (platform)
Passengers
2019	2,601,587[1]  4.6%
Rank	14 out of 143
Services
Preceding station Chicago "L" Following station Monroe toward Howard Red Line Harrison toward 95th/Dan Ryan
Track layout State Street Red Line north to Howard Adams Street Jackson Boulevard Van Buren Street Congress Parkway Red Line south to 95th/Dan Ryan

Like the Washington station, the northern extension of which was reconfigured as the Lake station, Jackson was originally double-length, with a third station mezzanine at Van Buren Street and Congress Parkway. The Van Buren-Congress mezzanine was closed on January 6, 1984, following the closure of the South Loop's main anchor, Sears, which had a direct entrance from the mezzanine. At the same time, the south end of the Jackson platform beyond the Jackson-Van Buren mezzanine was closed off with a plywood wall and both the platform area and mezzanine now remain, but abandoned. The street level entrances to the Van Buren-Congress mezzanine were removed when State Street was remodeled in 1997, replaced with access through grates, which can be seen on the sidewalks between Van Buren Street and Ida B. Wells Drive.