O'Hare (CTA station)
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| Address | 1000 O'Hare Drive Chicago, Illinois 60666 |
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| Coordinates | 41°58′52″N 87°54′03″W / 41.981127°N 87.900876°W | ||||||||||
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| Connections | Airport Transit System Pace Buses |
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| Structure | Subway | ||||||||||
| Platforms | 2 island platforms | ||||||||||
| Tracks | 3 | ||||||||||
| Bicycle facilities | Yes | ||||||||||
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| Opened | September 3, 1984 | ||||||||||
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| Owned by | Chicago Transit Authority | ||||||||||
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| Passengers (2011) | 3,332,138[1]  6.6% |
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O'Hare is the 'L' station at the northwestern terminus of the CTA's Blue Line. It is a subway station with two island platforms serving three tracks, located at O'Hare International Airport, 17 miles (27 km) northwest of the Chicago Loop. Trains are scheduled to depart from O'Hare roughly every 2-7 minutes during rush-hour periods, and take about 40 minutes to travel to the Loop. It is also the only CTA station without coordinates. The reason for this is that O'Hare Airport doesn't line up with any streets in the city. Since its opening there were rumors of an extension westward to Schaumburg either in the Tollway Median or parallelling Higgins Road. This was eventually cancelled when Metra planned a first of its kind trans-suburban commuter line known as the Suburban Transit Access Route.
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[edit] History
O'Hare station opened on September 3, 1984, as the terminus of an extension of the Blue Line from its former terminal at River Road.[2] It was built to a design by the architectural firm Murphy/Jahn.[3]
[edit] Bus and rail connections
Take Airport Transit System to Remote Parking Stop to access connections
- #250 Dempster Street
- #330 Manneheim-LaGrange Roads
[edit] References
- ^ "Annual Ridership Report: Calendar Year 2011" (PDF). Chicago Transit Authority. http://www.transitchicago.com/assets/1/ridership_reports/2011-Annual.pdf. Retrieved February 16, 2012.
- ^ Papajohn, George (September 4, 1984). "O'Hare's 'L' Service Gets Inaugural Cheer". Chicago Tribune: p. A1.
- ^ Garfield, Graham. "O'Hare". Chicago-"L".org. http://www.chicago-l.org/stations/ohare.html. Retrieved September, 30 2006.
[edit] External links
Media related to O'Hare (CTA) at Wikimedia Commons
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