Dorchester station explained

Dorchester
Grid:1400E 6300S
Size:.9
Color:B
Type:Former Chicago 'L' rapid transit station
Address:1400 East 63rd Street
Woodlawn, Chicago, Illinois
Coordinates:41.7806°N -87.5931°W
Line:Jackson Park Branch
Other:IC Electric

63rd Street station

Structure:Elevated
Platform:1
Tracks:2
Rebuilt:1994 (work suspended, never completed)
Owned:Chicago Transit Authority
Former:Madison Avenue
Other Services Header:Former services
Mapframe:yes
Mapframe-Custom:
Shape:none
Marker:rail-metro
Marker-Color:
  1. 888
Zoom:15

Dorchester was a station on the Jackson Park branch of the Chicago "L". The station opened on April 23, 1893[1] and closed on January 13, 1973,[2] as part of a group of budget-related CTA station closings. Dorchester was scheduled to be the new terminal of the Jackson Park Branch, but the CTA decided to make Cottage Grove the new terminal, because the Reverend Arthur Brazier and some other Woodlawn residents thought the 'L' structure over East 63rd Street would further blight Woodlawn and prevent redevelopment.[3]

External links

Notes and References

  1. News: April 23, 1893 . Run Trains to Madison Avenue . Chicago Daily Tribune . 2.
  2. News: January 13, 1973 . CTA Gives Riders Taste of Cutback . Chicago Tribune . 42.
  3. News: Washburn . Gary . April 27, 1994 . Some in Woodlawn Favor Demolishing a Part of Jackson Park 'L' . June 1, 2020 . Chicago Tribune . Chicago "L".org . September 9, 2024 . https://web.archive.org/web/20240909103205/https://www.chicago-l.org/articles/woodlawn1.html . live .