Harman Patil (Editor)

Sheridan station (CTA)

Updated on
Edit
Like
Comment
Share on FacebookTweet on TwitterShare on LinkedInShare on Reddit
Platforms
  
2 island platforms

Rebuilt
  
1916, 1930

Owner
  
Chicago Transit Authority

Structure type
  
Elevated

Opened
  
31 May 1900

Tracks
  
4 (only 3 in use)

Sheridan station (CTA)

Location
  
3940 North Sheridan Road Chicago, Illinois 60613

Owned by
  
Chicago Transit Authority

Line(s)
  
Red Line   Purple Line (Cubs game days/AM rush southbound only)

Address
  
Chicago, IL 60613, United States

Similar
  
Addison (CTA Red), Chicago Varnish Company, Ban Johnson Park, Wilson (CTA), Plant Field

Sheridan is an 'L' station on the CTA's Red Line. It is an elevated station with two island platforms, located at 3940 North Sheridan Road, in the Lakeview neighborhood of Chicago's Lakeview community area. Sheridan is the closest 'L' stop to Graceland Cemetery, which is about one-half mile to the west on Irving Park Road. The Sheridan station is one of only two remaining 'L' stations that were built on S-curves; Indiana on the Green Line is the other.

Contents

Purple Line connections

Beginning spring 2007 and lasting through 2009, northbound and southbound Purple Line Express trains stop at Sheridan before Chicago Cubs weekday night games in order to provide more service to nearby Wrigley Field. Previously, trains had stopped at the Addison station to the south but that station does not have platform access to the express tracks as Sheridan does, which required Purple Line trains to cross over to the Red Line tracks. In order to prevent this from adding to delays caused by the Brown Line reconstruction, the stop was moved to Sheridan. Recently, Inbound Express Purple Line has begun stopping at Sheridan as well as Wilson and Addison during the morning rush hour.

Red & Purple Modernization Project

As part of the recommended Red & Purple Modernization Project, the Sheridan station will potentially be replaced with a new Irving Park station if the CTA decides not to go with the "no action" alternative.

Until 2017, AM Loop-bound Purple Line express trains will share 95th-bound Red Line tracks, due to the Wilson station reconstruction.

Bus connections

CTA

  • X9 Ashland Express (weekday rush hours only)
  • 80 Irving Park
  • 151 Sheridan
  • Station layout

    Although the station has two island platforms—potentially giving access to all four tracks that run through the station—normally only the Red Line, which runs on the inner tracks, stops at the station. The outside tracks are used during weekday rush hours by Purple Line Express trains, which typically pass through the station without stopping on the express leg of their route between Howard and the Loop.

    References

    Sheridan station (CTA) Wikipedia