Jackson station (CTA Red Line)

Route map
	Red Line
	north to Howard
	Red Line
	south to 95th/Dan Ryan

Jackson
Jackson 300S; 0E/0W
Location	230 South State Street; Chicago, Illinois 60604
Coordinates	41°52′41″N 87°37′39″W / 41.878153°N 87.627596°W
Owned by	City of Chicago
Line(s)	Red Line
Platforms	1 Island platform
Tracks	2
Connections	(Via Jackson); Blue Line; (Via Harold Washington Library – State/Van Buren); Orange Line Brown Line Purple Line Express Pink Line
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)
Traffic
Passengers (2017)	2,994,788[1] 9.2%
Rank	13 out of 143
Services
	State Street Subway
Route map
	Red Line
	north to Howard
	Red Line
	south to 95th/Dan Ryan

Jackson (also Jackson/State) is a subway station on the Chicago Transit Authority's 'L' system, serving the Red Line in the Chicago 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 through the Harold Washington Library–State/Van Buren Loop Elevated station.

Jackson station in 2004 after renovation was completed

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 Congress Parkway.

Jackson on the Red Line (and Blue Line) has been recognized as the station(s) with the most thefts by NBC Chicago.

Underground pedestrian tunnel connecting the Red and Blue Lines in the Loop area in Chicago.
Note the lights are artificial, not sunlight from windows.

Bus connections

CTA

1 Bronzeville/Union Station
2 Hyde Park Express
6 Jackson Park Express
7 Harrison
10 Museum of Science and Industry
29 State
36 Broadway
62 Archer (Owl Service)
126 Jackson
146 Inner Drive/Michigan Express
147 Outer Drive Express
151 Sheridan

Notes and references

Notes

References

↑ "Annual Ridership Report – Calendar Year 2017" (PDF). Chicago Transit Authority, Ridership Analysis and Reporting. January 31, 2018. Retrieved July 29, 2018.

External links

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[1] "Annual Ridership Report – Calendar Year 2017" (PDF). Chicago Transit Authority, Ridership Analysis and Reporting. January 31, 2018. Retrieved July 29, 2018.