The Market Street Terminal was a station on the
Chicago "L"'s
Lake Street Elevatedtoday part of the
Green Line
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between 1893 and 1948. The Elevated's original downtown terminus, it opened at the corner of
Madison Street and Market Street (modern-day
Wacker Drive
Wacker Drive is a major multilevel street in Chicago, Illinois, running along the south side of the main branch and the east side of the south branch of the Chicago River in the Loop.Hayner, Don and Tom McNamee, ''Streetwise Chicago'', "Wacker D ...
) on November 6, 1893, alongside the rest of the Elevated. When the Loop was constructed in 1895, the Terminal was required to be demolished but no action was taken. When it closed in 1948, only overflow traffic served it. It was demolished shortly thereafter for the construction of double-decked Wacker Drive.
See also
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Stub terminals of the Chicago "L"
In the first half of the 20th century, the four companies of the Chicago "L" and their successors each ran a terminal in Chicago's downtown in addition to the looping elevated trackage known as " the Loop" shared between all four of them. These ...
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Defunct Chicago "L" stations
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