Harlem station (CTA Blue Line Congress branch)

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This article is about the Harlem station on the Congress Expressway segment of the Blue Line. For the Harlem station on the O'Hare portion of the Blue Line, see Harlem station (CTA Blue Line O'Hare branch).
Harlem
File:Harlem Blue LIne-Forest Park Branch.JPG
Looking down the platform. The tracks to the left belong to the Baltimore and Ohio Chicago Terminal Railroad(now CSX).
Location 701 South Harlem Avenue
Forest Park, Illinois 60130
Coordinates Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
Owned by Chicago Transit Authority
Line(s) Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
Platforms 1 island platform
Tracks 2
Construction
Structure type Surface Level
History
Opened March 20, 1960[1][2]
Traffic
Passengers (2015) 386,381[3] Increase 5.2% (CTA)
Rank 126 out of 143[lower-alpha 1]
Services
Preceding station   Chicago "L"   Following station
toward O'Hare
 Blue Line
Terminus

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 repoened as an auxiliary entrance/exit on September 26, 2009, at 4 PM.[4]

Harlem opened in 1960 and is composed of a main entrance on Harlem Street and an auxiliary entrance on Circle Avenue, providing access to a central 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.

Station layout

G Ground level Entrance/Exit, station building
P
Platform level		 Southbound ← Blue Line toward Forest Park (Terminus)
Island platform, doors will open on the left
Northbound → Blue Line toward O'Hare (Oak Park) →

Bus connections

Pace

  • #307 Harlem

See also

Notes and references

Notes

  1. ↑ Due to possible double-counting of physically-connected stations, the CTA's official 2015 tally of stations was 146, but for ridership purposes reported having only 143 stations.

References

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External links

Media related to Harlem (CTA Blue Line Congress branch) at Wikimedia Commons

File:Looking down on Harlem L station.JPG
The station from the Circle Avenue overpass.


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