Addison station (CTA Red Line)

This article is about the Addison station on the CTA Red Line. For other uses, see Addison.

Addison   3600N 940W
Addison station in 2010
General information
Location	940 West Addison Street Chicago, Illinois 60613
Coordinates	41.947462°N 87.653636°W / 41.947462; -87.653636
Owned by	Chicago Transit Authority
Line(s)	Red Line
Platforms	1 island platform
Tracks	4
Construction
Structure type	Elevated
Bicycle facilities	Yes
Accessible	Yes
History
Opened	June 6, 1900
Rebuilt	1994
Passengers
2017	2,971,892  6%
Rank	14 out of 143
Services
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Track layout Purple Line Express north to Linden Red Line north to Howard Addison St. Purple Line Express south to Loop Red Line south to 95th/Dan Ryan

Addison is a Chicago "L" station on the Chicago Transit Authority Red line. It is located in the Wrigleyville area of the Lakeview neighborhood of Chicago, Illinois, at 940 West Addison Street with city block coordinates at 3600 North at 940 West. Addison directly serves the Chicago Cubs and Wrigley Field, the city's north side Major League Baseball team and its stadium. The station is served by the Red Line. The station is within the shadow of the historic baseball stadium.

Transit art

Chicago artist Steve Musgrave has several murals featuring Cubs legends on display at the Addison station, which he adopted as part of the CTA's Adopt-A-Station program in 1998. Four large murals feature Cubs legends Billy Williams, Ferguson Jenkins, "Mr. Cub," Ernie Banks and Ryne Sandberg. A smaller painting of Harry Caray was added later.

Since 1998, Musgrave has also designed posters commemorating the annual Cubs–Sox crosstown series. Beginning in 2003, the CTA has also issued farecards featuring the poster design.

Service

Addison station in May 2003

Prior to 2007, southbound afternoon Purple Line Express trains stopped at the station before weekday evening Cubs games, to speed travel times for customers from Evanston, Skokie and Wilmette. In an effort to prevent delays due to Brown Line construction just south of the station, Purple Line Express trains now stop at the nearby Sheridan station instead.

Following Cubs games, this station can become overcrowded and jammed with people trying to get on the trains.

From March 5, 2015 to March 21, 2016, AM Loop-bound Purple Line express trains shared 95th-bound Red Line tracks and stopped at Addison. This was due to the first phase of the Wilson station reconstruction.

Bus connections

CTA

• 22 Clark (Owl Service)
• 152 Addison

Pace

• 282 Schaumburg–Wrigley Field Express
• 779 Yorktown–Wrigley Field Express

External links

• Addison (Howard Line) station page at Chicago-L.org
• Train schedule (PDF) at CTA official site
• Addison station page CTA official site
• Addison Street entrance from Google Maps Street View