Pulaski is a
station
Station may refer to:
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on the
Chicago 'L' system, serving the
Blue Line's
Forest Park
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China
* Gongqing Forest Park, Shanghai
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branch. The station is located in the median of the
Eisenhower Expressway
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and serves the
West Garfield Park
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Neighborhood boundaries
The boundaries of West Garfield Park are NORTH: W. Kinzie St ...
neighborhood. A long ramp connects the platform to the station house on the
Pulaski Road overpass. There was originally a similar entrance from the Keeler Avenue overpass; the entrance from Keeler was closed to cut costs on January 15, 1973,
but retained as an exit, and the exit was fully closed on December 28, 1978. The structure for this exit still stands but it is closed to the public.
History
Elevated station
The original Pulaski station (then called 40th Avenue station) opened in 1895 along with several other stations on the
Garfield Park branch
The Garfield Park Branch was a rapid transit line which was part of the Chicago "L" system from 1895 to 1958. The branch served Chicago's Near West Side, East Garfield Park, West Garfield Park, and Austin neighborhoods, and the suburbs of Oak P ...
of the
Metropolitan West Side Elevated
The Metropolitan West Side Elevated Railroad (known as the ''Met'' or ''Polly "L"'') was the third elevated rapid transit line to be built in Chicago, Illinois. It was the first of Chicago’s elevated lines to be electrically powered. The ma ...
. Because 40th Avenue was renamed to Crawford Avenue and later to Pulaski Road, the station was renamed twice in 1913 and in 1935 respectively. When
skip-stop service was implemented on the Garfield Park branch on December 9, 1951, the station was designated an AB station, meaning all trains stop at this station. The elevated station was eventually closed in 1958 in favor of a newly-opened replacement station in the median of the
Congress Expressway
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.
Expressway-median station
The new Pulaski station opened on June 22, 1958, on the Congress branch. This time, however, the station was designated an A station. During the time the CTA used skip-stop service, A trains west of
Racine station were routed along the Congress branch, while B trains were routed along the
Douglas branch
The Cermak branch, formerly known as the Douglas branch, is a long section of the Pink Line of the Chicago "L" system in Chicago, Illinois. It was built by the Metropolitan West Side Elevated west of the Loop. As of February 2013, it serves an ...
(today's
Pink Line). In an effort to cut cost, access to Keeler Avenue was limited to exiting passengers on January 15, 1973;
the ramp was closed entirely on December 28, 1978.
Bus connections
CTA
*
7 Harrison (Weekdays only)
*
53 Pulaski (Owl Service)
References
External links
Pulaski (Congress Line) Station Page*[https://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&ie=UTF8&ll=41.874047,-87.730064&spn=0.003978,0.013733&z=17&layer=c&cbll=41.874047,-87.730064&panoid=2H68xcdMbzZ8ux-vXd0Ysw&cbp=12,198.83,,0,-10.62 Keeler Avenue entrance (closed) from Google Maps Street View]
Pulaski Road entrance from Google Maps Street View
CTA Blue Line stations
Railway stations in the United States opened in 1958
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