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Main station (CTA)

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Line(s)
  
Purple Line

Connections
  
CTA bus, Metra

Opened
  
16 May 1908

Rebuilt
  
1909

Platforms
  
2 side platforms

Structure type
  
Elevated

Owner
  
Chicago Transit Authority

Tracks
  
2

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Location
  
836 Chicago Avenue Evanston, Illinois 60202

Owned by
  
Chicago Transit Authority

Similar
  
Syca/Main Street station, Main Avenue Bridge, Dempster station, South Boulevard station, Noyes station

Main is a station on the Chicago Transit Authority's 'L' system, on the Purple Line at 836 Chicago Avenue in Evanston, Illinois (directional coordinates 900 north, 732 west). It is near the Main Street stop of Metra's Union Pacific/North Line.

The current station has been in place since 1908, with only little renovation to the station since then, most notably a 90-foot extension of the platform in 1997 so that a motorman in the front car could see all doors stopped at the station (the platform had curved at one end previously). Main is one of the stations on the CTA's 2004-2008 Capital Improvement Plan.

Bus and rail connections

CTA

  • 205 Chicago/Golf
  • Metra

  • Evanston Main Street (Metra)
  • References

    Main station (CTA) Wikipedia