Francisco station - Wikipedia
- ️Sat Dec 14 1907
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| Chicago 'L' rapid transit station | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Location | 4649 North Francisco Avenue Chicago, Illinois 60625 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Coordinates | 41°57′58″N 87°42′08″W / 41.966155°N 87.702099°W | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Owned by | Chicago Transit Authority | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Line(s) | Ravenswood Branch | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Platforms | 1 island platform | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Tracks | 2 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Construction | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Structure type | At-grade | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Accessible | Yes | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Opened | December 14, 1907; 117 years ago | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Rebuilt | 2006–2007; 18 years ago | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| 2020 | 159,792[1]  67.3% | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Rank | 119 out of 143 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Francisco is an 'L' station on the CTA's Brown Line. It is an at-grade station with a single island platform, located in Chicago's Ravenswood Manor neighborhood at 4649 North Francisco Avenue. The adjacent stations are Kedzie, which is about 0.3 miles (480 m) to the west, and Rockwell, located across the Chicago River about 0.4 miles (640 m) to the east.
Francisco Station opened on December 14, 1907, as part of Northwestern Elevated Railroad's Ravenswood line.[2] It had survived relatively intact until September 2006, when the station closed for renovation.
Brown Line Capacity Expansion Project
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The Brown Line Capacity Expansion Project upgraded all Brown Line stations to be accessible to passengers with disabilities and extended platforms to allow eight car trains. Because of the historic nature of the station structures, Francisco Station was not completely rebuilt, as with the neighboring Kedzie and Rockwell stations. However, the platforms were rebuilt, an auxiliary entrance added on Sacramento Avenue, and the station house and canopy were renovated and upgraded.[2] The station closed from September 15, 2006, to March 9, 2007, to allow this work to be completed.[3]
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Francisco station in March 2006, prior to renovation
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Newly rebuilt Francisco station, August 2007
- ^ "Annual Ridership Report – Calendar Year 2020" (PDF). Chicago Transit Authority, Ridership Analysis and Reporting. January 19, 2021. Retrieved May 31, 2021.
- ^ a b Francisco. Chicago-'L'.org (URL accessed September 2, 2006).
- ^ Francisco. CTA Countdown To A New Brown website (URL accessed September 2, 2006).