Laramie station (CTA Garfield Park branch)
LARAMIE 5200W 600S | |||||||||||||||||||||
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| Former Chicago "L" station | |||||||||||||||||||||
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| Owned by | Chicago Transit Authority (1947–1958) Chicago Rapid Transit Company (1924–1947) See text before 1924 | ||||||||||||||||||||
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| Opened | August 17, 1902 | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Closed | 1958 | ||||||||||||||||||||
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Laramie was a rapid transit station on the Chicago "L"'s Garfield Park branch, opening in 1902 and serving as the branch's terminal and connecting it with the interurban Aurora, Elgin & Chicago Railroad (AE&C). The AE&C continued downtown on the Garfield Park's trackage in 1905, whereafter it only boarded westbound passengers and alighted eastbound passengers to avoid direct competition with the "L"; as part of the same agreement, the "L" had extended west to the AE&C's station on Des Plaines Avenue. The AE&C, later renamed the Chicago Aurora and Elgin Railroad (CA&E), ceased operation in 1953, and the station closed altogether in 1958 when the Garfield Park branch was replaced with the Congress Line.[1]