Austin station (CTA Blue Line)

Austin is a station on the 'L' system, serving the Blue Line's Forest Park branch. It is located at Austin Boulevard alongside the Eisenhower Expressway in Oak Park, Illinois. The station has an auxiliary entrance/exit at Lombard Avenue. After CTA Blue Line trains pass the station, the CTA line splits away from the Baltimore and Ohio Chicago Terminal Railroad lines letting the CTA Blue Line continue into Chicago afterwards.

Austin   1W 1000S
Chicago 'L' rapid transit station
Location	1050 South Austin Boulevard Oak Park, Illinois 60304
Coordinates	41.870851°N 87.776812°W / 41.870851; -87.776812
Owned by	Chicago Transit Authority
Line(s)	Forest Park Branch
Platforms	1 island platform
Tracks	2
Construction
Structure type	Expressway median
History
Opened	March 20, 1960[1][2]
Traffic
Passengers (2019)	543,533[3]  4.6% (CTA)
Rank	100 out of 143
Services
Preceding station Chicago "L" Following station Oak Park toward Forest Park Blue Line Cicero toward O'Hare
Former services Preceding station Chicago "L" Following station Oak Park toward Des Plaines Congress Branch Central Closed 1973 toward O'Hare

Bus connections

CTA

• 91 Austin

Pace

• 315 Austin Boulevard

Notes and references

Notes

References

1. "CTA to Open New Congress Right of Way". Chicago Daily Tribune. March 20, 1960. p. W3.
2. "Congress CTA on Permanent Right of Way". Chicago Daily Tribune. March 20, 1960. p. 25.
3. "Monthly Ridership Report – December 2019" (PDF). Chicago Transit Authority, Ridership Analysis and Reporting. January 13, 2020. Retrieved March 19, 2020.

External links

• Media related to Austin (CTA Blue Line) at Wikimedia Commons
• Austin (Congress Line) Station Page
• Lombard Avenue entrance from Google Maps Street View
• Austin Boulevard entrance from Google Maps Street View

A CTA train heads towards the Austin station in 1968 (then known as the Congress Branch instead of the Blue Line)