State/Lake station

State/Lake
 
0E/0W
200N
Location 200 North State Street
Chicago, Illinois 60601
Coordinates 41°53′09″N 87°37′40″W / 41.88574°N 87.627835°W / 41.88574; -87.627835
Owned by Chicago Transit Authority
Line(s)
  Orange Line
  Green Line
  Purple Line Express
  Pink Line
  Brown Line
Platforms 2 side platforms
Tracks 2
Connections
  Red Line via Lake
Construction
Structure type Elevated
History
Opened September 22, 1895
Traffic
Passengers (2017) 3,306,494[1] Increase 5.1%
Rank 10 out of 143
Services
Preceding station   Chicago "L"   Following station
Loop Elevated
One-way operation
Orange Line
toward Midway
toward Harlem/Lake
Green Line
One-way operation
Purple Line
Express
toward Linden
Pink Line
toward 54th/Cermak
toward Kimball
Brown Line
One-way operation
Brown Line
Rush period special
(6-7 a.m.)
  Former services  
One-way operation
Loop Shuttle
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State/Lake is an 'L' station serving the CTA's Brown, Green, Orange, Pink, and Purple Lines. It is an elevated station with two side platforms, located in the Chicago Loop at 200 North State Street. The CTA offers farecard transfers between this station and the Lake subway station on the Red Line.

History

The station in 1949 decorated for Christmas
A passenger enters the station as it appears quarter after 7 o'clock in the evening.

State/Lake station opened on September 22, 1895, as part on the Lake Street Elevated Railroad's extension into the Chicago Loop that later became the north side of the Union Loop.[2] State/Lake is the last station on this section of the Loop to retain many of its original features.

One of a series of videos "shot on iPhone 6" to feature in a 2015 Apple advertising campaign [3] features the short journey between Randolph/Wabash and State/Lake shot in time lapse.

Bus connections

CTA

  • 2 Hyde Park Express
  • 6 Jackson Park Express
  • 10 Museum of Science and Industry
  • 29 State
  • 36 Broadway
  • 62 Archer
  • 146 Inner Drive/Michigan Express

Notes and references

Notes

    References

    1. ↑ "Annual Ridership Report – Calendar Year 2017" (PDF). Chicago Transit Authority, Ridership Analysis and Reporting. January 31, 2018. Retrieved July 29, 2018.
    2. ↑ State/Lake. Chicago-"L".org (URL accessed October 8, 2006).
    3. ↑ Cocu L - Shot on iPhone 6 "Shot on iPhone 6 by Cocu L"
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