Argyle station (CTA)

Argyle is a station on the Chicago Transit Authority's 'L' system. It is situated between the Berwyn and Lawrence stations on the Red Line, which runs from Rogers Park at Chicago's northern city limits, through downtown Chicago, to Roseland. It is an elevated station with an island platform. Located at 1118 West Argyle Street in the West Argyle Street Historic District of Chicago's Uptown community area. Purple Line weekday rush hour express service passes through this station but does not stop, normally on tracks outside the Red line tracks, but due to the reconstruction going on until 2025, they currently use the same tracks as Red Line trains.

"Argyle station" redirects here. For the locality in Nova Scotia, see Argyle Station, Nova Scotia. For the Hong Kong MTR station formerly known as Argyle, see Mong Kok station. For the railway station in Glasgow, see Argyle Street railway station.

Argyle
 
5000N
1200W
Chicago 'L' rapid transit station
Temporary platform in use until 2025
General information
LocationTemporarily between Broadway, Winthrop Avenue, Foster Avenue, and Winona Street (originally 1118 West Argyle Street)
Chicago, Illinois 60640
Coordinates41.973365°N 87.658561°W / 41.973365; -87.658561
Owned byChicago Transit Authority
Line(s)North Side Main Line
Platforms1 Island platform
Tracks4 (two temporarily out of service)
Construction
Structure typeElevated
ParkingNo
Bicycle facilitiesNo
AccessibleStarting 2025
Other information
StatusTemporary station
History
OpenedChicago & Evanston Railroad:
May 21, 1885 (1885-05-21)
Northwestern Elevated Railroad:
May 16, 1908 (1908-05-16)
Rebuilt1921, 2012, 2021–25
Previous namesArgyle Park
Passengers
2022717,349[1] Increase 39%
Services
Preceding station Chicago "L" Following station
Bryn Mawr
One-way operation
 Red Line Wilson
toward 95th/Dan Ryan
Berwyn
Temporarily closed
toward Howard
 Lawrence
Temporarily closed
toward 95th/Dan Ryan
     Purple Line does not stop here
Former services
Preceding station Milwaukee Road Following station
Edgewater
towards Llewellyn Park
 Chicago – Evanston Sheridan Park
towards Chicago
Location

Location

Argyle is situated on West Argyle Street, close to the intersection with Broadway though it has temporarily been located slightly north to a location between Foster Avenue and Winona Street due to reconstruction at the original site. The station is located in the West Argyle Street Historic District in the Uptown community area of Chicago; the area surrounding the station consists of a mixture commercial and residential areas,[2] and is particularly noted for the high concentration of Vietnamese restaurants, bakeries and shops; as well as Chinese, Cambodian, Laotian, and Thai businesses.[3]

History
The new embankment at Argyle station in 1916

The site of Argyle station was first used as Argyle Park on the Chicago and Evanston branch of the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railroad route, which opened on May 21, 1885.[4] On opening, the station houses along the route were described as "attractive frame structures built in the Gothic and Queen Anne styles."[4] In 1908, the Northwestern Elevated Railroad was extended north from Wilson, using the tracks of the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railroad, and a new station was constructed on the site of the previous depot.[5][6] The station was again rebuilt to a design by architect Charles P. Rawson when the tracks between Wilson and Howard were elevated onto an embankment between 1914 and 1922.[7] In 1979, the station received a $250,000 facelift[8] and, in 1991, a Chinese-style hipped-and-gabled roof was added to the platform canopy.[9] The station was closed for renovation from August 24 to October 5, 2012.[10]

Services
Road with a railroad bridge crossing it. A train waits at a station on the bridge as passengers disembark
A northbound train at Argyle station, July 2010

Argyle is part of CTA's Red Line, which runs from the northern city limits at Howard Street to downtown Chicago and 95th street. The station has an island platform on an elevated structure located between Broadway and Winthrop Avenue. It serves the Red Line's two tracks; the northbound track serves trains to Howard, while the southbound track serves trains to 95th. The station entrance was originally located on the north side of Argyle Street, built into the embankment. It is located between the Berwyn and Lawrence stations. Red Line trains serve Argyle 24 hours a day, every day of the year; trains operate roughly every 3 to 9 minutes during rush hour and midday operation, with longer headways of up to 15 minutes at night.[11][12] The station is also located 1⁄2 a block from the 36 Broadway bus.

Red & Purple Modernization Project

The Argyle station is being rebuilt as part of this project. The station will receive new wider platforms, new signage, new lights, new security cameras, and new elevators, reconstruction will begin in May 2021 and will be completed in 2025.[13][14][15] During Stage A, the two northbound tracks and the main entrance were closed with northbound trains using what is normally the southbound Red line track and platform and southbound trains using the southbound Purple Line Express track stopping at a temporary side platform. Purple Line Express trains will continue to skip this station in both directions.[15] Unlike a similar reconstruction that happened simultaneously at Bryn Mawr, both platforms are used single temporary entrance, as opposed to one platform using the normal entrance and one platform using a temporary entrance with no link in the paid area. After Stage A was completed in 2023, Stage B began, where the station was temporarily relocated a block north to a location between Foster Avenue and Winona Street with an entrance on each street.[16] This time, the temporary station is an island platform located on what will be the permanent northbound Red Line track, located between what will be a completely new pocket track (which did not exist on the original structure) immediately to the north of the site of both the original and permanent new stations (currently being used by all southbound trains), and the permanent Purple Line Express northbound track (currently being used by all northbound trains).

Notes and references

References
  1. "Annual Ridership Report – Calendar Year 2022" (PDF). Chicago Transit Authority, Ridership Analysis and Reporting. February 2, 2023. Retrieved June 9, 2023.
  2. City of Chicago Zoning Map (Map). Chicago Department of Zoning. 2010.
  3. "Uptown's Argyle Street Named To Historic Register". CBS2 Chicago: Chicago Area Local News. CBS Broadcasting Inc. June 14, 2010. Archived from the original on June 21, 2010. Retrieved July 29, 2010.
  4. "The Chicago & Evanston". Chicago Daily Tribune. May 22, 1885.
  5. "Electrification of the Evanston Suburban Line of the Chicago Milwaukee & St. Paul". The Railway Age. 44 (14): 467. October 4, 1907. Retrieved July 29, 2010.
  6. Garfield, Graham. "Argyle". Chicago-"L".org. Graham Garfield. Retrieved July 29, 2010.
  7. Borzo, Greg (2007). The Chicago "L". Chicago: Arcadia Publishing. p. 70. ISBN 978-0-7385-5100-5.
  8. Lynch, Kevin; Janega, James (April 4, 2001). "Charlie Soo 1945-2001. - Argyle Street 'Mayor,' Bold Promoter of Asian Shops". Chicago Tribune.
  9. McCarron, John (February 6, 1991). "'Mayor' Brings New Life to Argyle Street". Chicago Tribune.
  10. "Red Ahead: Argyle". Chicago Transit Authority. Retrieved December 3, 2012.
  11. "Red Line Route Guide". Chicago Transit Authority. Archived from the original on July 22, 2010. Retrieved July 29, 2010.
  12. "Argyle Station Timetable" (PDF). Chicago Transit Authority. Archived from the original (PDF) on July 30, 2010. Retrieved July 29, 2010.
  13. "CTA unveils new Red Line station designs". January 28, 2021.
  14. "Four CTA Red Line stations are getting a makeover".
  15. "CTA Red & Purple Modernization: Lawrence to Bryn Mawr Modernization Project".
  16. https://www.transitchicago.com/rpm/
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