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Randolph/Wabash
 
150N
44E
General information
Location151 North Wabash Avenue
Chicago, Illinois 60601
Coordinates41°53′04″N 87°37′34″W / 41.884431°N 87.626149°W / 41.884431; -87.626149
Owned byChicago Transit Authority
Line(s)
  Orange Line
  Green Line
  Purple Line weekday rush hours only
  Pink Line
  Brown Line
Platforms2 Side platforms
Tracks2
ConnectionsMillennium Station
Construction
Structure typeElevated
History
OpenedNovember 8, 1896
ClosedSeptember 3, 2017
Rebuilt1957 (new Inner Loop station house)
Passengers
20142,242,622[1] Increase 1.2%
Rank21 out of 143[a]
Services
  Former services  
Preceding station   CTA   Following station
Loop Elevated
One-way operation
Template:CTA lines
Template:CTA lines
One-way operation
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Express
Template:CTA lines
Template:CTA lines
One-way operation
Template:CTA lines
NB Special
Chicago North Shore and Milwaukee
One-way operation
Template:North Shore Line lines
Service abandoned in 1963
One-way operation
Track layout
Legend
Brown and Green Lines
north to Kimball and Harlem/Lake
Randolph St.
Purple, Orange, Green, and Pink Lines
south to Linden, Midway , Ashland/63rd,
Cottage Grove, and 54th/Cermak
 

Randolph/Wabash was a elevated 'L' station in the Chicago Loop. Located at Randolph Street and Wabash Avenue, it served trains running on the CTA's Brown and Green Lines on the outer loop track, and the Green, Orange, Pink, and Purple Lines on the inner loop track. Randolph/Wabash was the closest 'L' station to Metra's Millennium Station until its closure on September 3, 2017. The station was later demolished.[2][3]

History

Randolph/Wabash opened on November 8, 1896 to be used by trains on the Lake Street Elevated Railroad (now the western section of the Green Line).[4] The original inner loop station house was replaced in 1957, and the outer loop station house was removed in the 1960s. On September 3, 2017, Randolph/Wabash closed, three days after its replacement, Washington/Wabash station, opened.[5]

Randolph/Wabash was used for exterior shots in the 1995 film While You Were Sleeping. The station also appeared in the 1987 film Adventures in Babysitting. In addition, a 2015 Apple advertising campaign, "Shot on iPhone 6", features the short journey between Randolph/Wabash and State/Lake shot in time lapse.

  • Station Exterior

Notes and references

Notes

  1. ^ Due to possible double-counting of physically-connected stations, the CTA's official 2014 tally of stations was 145, but for ridership purposes reported having only 143 stations.

References

  1. ^ "Monthly Ridership Report – December 2014" (PDF). Chicago Transit Authority Ridership Analysis and Reporting. March 5, 2015. Retrieved May 1, 2015. {{cite web}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |coauthors= (help)
  2. ^ "Customer Alert: Randolph/Wabash Station Closure". transitchicago.com. Chicago Transit Authority. Retrieved September 3, 2017.
  3. ^ https://chicago.curbed.com/2017/9/5/16255256/randolph-wabash-cta-l-chicago-transit-madison
  4. ^ Randolph/Wabash. Chicago-"L".org (URL accessed September 30, 2006).
  5. ^ https://chicago.curbed.com/2017/8/31/16234044/washington-wabash-loop-cta-station

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