Jackson station (CTA Red Line)

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Jackson

300S
0E/0W
Jackson 300S; 0E/0W
Chicago 'L' rapid transit station
	Station platform with stairs to the Blue Line station.
General information
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)	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
Accessible	Yes
History
Opened	October 17, 1943
Rebuilt	1989–91 (Adams-Jackson mezzanine); 1996–2000 (Jackson-Van Buren mezzanine); 2002–04 (platform)
Passengers
2022	959,018 40.8%
Services
Track layout
Track layout
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	Platform continues
	north to Monroe
Location
Location

Jackson 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 station in the Milwaukee–Dearborn subway and farecard transfers to Purple, Orange, Brown and Pink Line trains are available via the Harold Washington Library – State/Van Buren Loop Elevated station.

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 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.

The accessible entrance is located on the west side of State Street between Jackson & Adams, just south of 220 State Street.

Bus connections

CTA

1 Bronzeville/Union Station (Weekday Rush Hours only)
2 Hyde Park Express (Weekday Rush Hours only)
6 Jackson Park Express
7 Harrison
10 Museum of Science and Industry (Memorial Day through Labor Day only)
29 State
36 Broadway
62 Archer (Owl Service)
126 Jackson
146 Inner Lake Shore/Michigan Express
147 Outer DuSable Lake Shore Express
151 Sheridan

References

^ "Annual Ridership Report – Calendar Year 2022" (PDF). Chicago Transit Authority, Ridership Analysis and Reporting. February 2, 2023. Retrieved June 9, 2023.

External links

Transfer tunnel
Stairs to transfer tunnel

[1] "Annual Ridership Report – Calendar Year 2022" (PDF). Chicago Transit Authority, Ridership Analysis and Reporting. February 2, 2023. Retrieved June 9, 2023.

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