Austin is a station on the Chicago Transit Authority's 'L'system situated between the Ridgeland and Central stations on the Green Line. It is located at Austin Boulevard and Corcoran Place in the Austin neighborhood on Chicago's West Side and borders on the village of Oak Park.
The first Austin station opened in 1899 as part of surface level extension of the Lake Street Elevated Railroad. It was rebuilt in the early 1960s as part of a project which moved the western end of the Lake Street line off of its street level alignment and onto an abandoned strip of the parallel Chicago and Northwestern Railway's embankment. The station consists of an island platform on a grade separated embankment with a station building housing fare controls located alongside the embankment at street level. A secondary entrance was located a block east at Mason Avenue.
The first Austin station opened in 1899 as part of surface level extension of the Lake Street Elevated Railroad. It was rebuilt in the early 1960s as part of a project which moved the western end of the Lake Street line off of its street level alignment and onto an abandoned strip of the parallel Chicago and Northwestern Railway's embankment. The station consists of an island platform on a grade separated embankment with a station building housing fare controls located alongside the embankment at street level. A secondary entrance was located a block east at Mason Avenue.
October 8, 2018