Laramie station (CTA Garfield Park branch)

Rapid transit station in Chicago, 1902–1958

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LARAMIE 5200W
600S

Former Chicago "L" station

General information

Owned by

Chicago Transit Authority (1947–1958)
Chicago Rapid Transit Company (1924–1947)
See text before 1924

History

Opened

August 17, 1902

Closed

1958

Former services

Preceding station	Chicago "L"		Following station
Centraltoward Des Plaines		Garfield Park branch	Cicerotoward Marshfield
Preceding station	Chicago Aurora and Elgin Railroad		Following station
Oak Parktoward Wheaton		Main Line	Kedzie AvenueOne-way operation

Laramie was a rapid transit station on the Chicago "L"'s Garfield Park branch, opening in 1902 and serving as the branch's terminal and connecting it with the interurban Aurora, Elgin & Chicago Railroad (AE&C). The AE&C continued downtown on the Garfield Park's trackage in 1905, whereafter it only boarded westbound passengers and alighted eastbound passengers to avoid direct competition with the "L"; as part of the same agreement, the "L" had extended west to the AE&C's station on Des Plaines Avenue. The AE&C, later renamed the Chicago Aurora and Elgin Railroad (CA&E), ceased operation in 1953, and the station closed altogether in 1958 when the Garfield Park branch was replaced with the Congress Line.

References

Garfield, Graham. "Laramie". Chicago-L.org. Retrieved October 29, 2023.

v t e Current and former Chicago "L" stations
Garfield Park branch	Des Plaines Hannah Harlem Home Oak Park Gunderson Lombard Austin Central Laramie Cicero Kilbourn Tripp Pulaski Garfield Park St. Louis Kedzie Sacramento California Western Hoyne Ogden Marshfield

v t e Stations on the Chicago Aurora and Elgin Railroad (CA&E)
Main Line	Wheaton College Avenue Glen Ellyn Taylor Avenue Glen Oak Green Valley Lombard Stewart Avenue Westmore Ardmore Villa Park Spring Road York Street–Elmhurst Poplar Avenue Stratford Hills Berkeley Wolf Road Garden Home Bellwood§ 25th Avenue* 17th Avenue* 11th Avenue* 5th Avenue–Maywood§ Forest Park Oak Park Laramie Avenue Kedzie Avenue Marshfield Avenue Canal Street Wells Street Terminal
All stations were flag stops unless bolded. Stations in italics only discharged passengers eastbound, and only boarded passengers westbound; stations marked with § had the same service pattern as italicized stations between 1926 and 1951. Stations marked with * did not offer CA&E service between 1926 and 1951.

Stations on the Chicago Aurora and Elgin Railroad (CA&E)

Main Line

All stations were flag stops unless bolded. Stations in italics only discharged passengers eastbound, and only boarded passengers westbound; stations marked with § had the same service pattern as italicized stations between 1926 and 1951. Stations marked with * did not offer CA&E service between 1926 and 1951.

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