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Madison was a rapid transit station on the Chicago "L"'s Metropolitan West Side Elevated Railroad, serving its Logan Square branch from 1895 to 1951. The Metropolitan was one of four founding companies of the "L", and the first of its lines to be powered by electricity. The "L"'s companies merged operations under Chicago Elevated Railways (CER) in 1911 and formally merged into the Chicago Rapid Transit Company (CRT) in 1924. Private ownership of the "L" ended in 1947 when the public Chicago Transit Authority (CTA) assumed operations. Plans to replace the Logan Square branch whereupon Madison lay with a subway to provide a more direct connection to downtown had dated to the late 1930s, and the CTA opened the Milwaukee-Dearborn subway on February 25, 1951, closing Madison and its adjacent stations in the process, although Madison's tracks and station house remained standing. The station house continued in use as a commercial building into the late 1990s, when it was demolished despite recognition of its historic significance. The tracks would continue to be used for non-revenue service until they were reopened as part of the Pink Line in 2006. For much of its existence, Madison served the nearby sports arena Chicago Stadium. Given the proximity of the site to Chicago Stadium and its successor United Center, there have been several attempts at reviving the station. The station was typical of the stations constructed by the Metropolitan on its branches, with a Queen Anne station house and two wooden side platforms adjacent to the tracks. (en) |
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(en) 1718 West Madison Street (en) Chicago,Illinois, United States (en) |
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1951-02-25 (xsd:date) |
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1951-01-01 (xsd:gYear) |
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2 (xsd:nonNegativeInteger) |
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1895-05-06 (xsd:date) |
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1895-01-01 (xsd:gYear) |
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dbr:Chicago_Transit_Authority |
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dbr:Chicago_Transit_Authority |
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2side platforms |
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dbr:Logan_Square_branch |
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Elevated |
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wiki-commons:Special:FilePath/Madison-station-1990s.png?width=300 |
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dbr:Chicago_'L' |
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https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Chicago_L/mBMgm7F9kQkC%3Fhl=en&gbpv=1%7Curl-access=limited%7Cvia=Google https://archive.org/details/chicagotransitboardannualreports/chicagotransit1951/ https://archive.org/details/chicagotransitboardannualreports/chicagotransit1954/ |
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1718 (xsd:integer) Chicago, Illinois, United States (en) |
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A monochrome image of an apparently-white brick building from a three-quarter view from the building's proper right. The building has a semicircular bay in its front. Behind the building is an arched steel lattice (en) |
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1951-02-25 (xsd:date) |
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The Madison station house in its final days, housing a hot dog stand in the 1990s; the steel structure behind the station house was used to support the stairways' landings (en) |
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dbr:Logan_Square_branch |
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Yes (en) |
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1895-05-06 (xsd:date) |
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Former services (en) |
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dbr:Chicago_Transit_Authority |
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2 (xsd:integer) |
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expanded (en) |
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Elevated (en) |
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2 (xsd:integer) |
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Former Chicago 'L' rapid transit station (en) |
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Madison was a rapid transit station on the Chicago "L"'s Metropolitan West Side Elevated Railroad, serving its Logan Square branch from 1895 to 1951. The Metropolitan was one of four founding companies of the "L", and the first of its lines to be powered by electricity. The "L"'s companies merged operations under Chicago Elevated Railways (CER) in 1911 and formally merged into the Chicago Rapid Transit Company (CRT) in 1924. Private ownership of the "L" ended in 1947 when the public Chicago Transit Authority (CTA) assumed operations. (en) |
| rdfs:label |
Madison station (CTA) (en) |
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wikidata:Madison station (CTA) https://global.dbpedia.org/id/Gnok7 |
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wikipedia-en:Madison_station_(CTA)?oldid=1122779354&ns=0 |
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(en) |
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