State/Lake station

State/Lake
General information
Location	200 North State Street Chicago, Illinois 60601
Coordinates	41.88574°N 87.627835°W / 41.88574; -87.627835
Owned by	Chicago Transit Authority
Line(s)	Brown Line   Green Line   Orange Line   Purple Line weekday rush hours only   Pink Line
Platforms	2 side platforms
Tracks	2
Connections	Red Line via Lake
Construction
Structure type	Elevated
History
Opened	September 22, 1895
Passengers
2014	3,092,206  1.6%
Rank	13 out of 143
Services
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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. State/Lake is the last station on this section of the Loop to retain many of its original features. The station was used for exterior shots in ABC 7 Chicago news room.

One of a series of videos "shot on iPhone 6" to feature in a 2015 Apple advertising campaign 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

External links

• Historic American Engineering Record (HAER) No. IL-1-H, "Union Elevated Railroad, State-Lake Station"
• State Street entrance from Google Maps Street View