Kedzie station (Metra)
Kedzie is a Metra commuter railroad station in the East Garfield Park neighborhood on the West Side of Chicago. It is served by the Union Pacific West Line.
General information | |||||||||||||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Location | North Kedzie Avenue & West Carroll Avenue Chicago, Illinois | ||||||||||||||||
Coordinates | 41.8882°N 87.7069°W | ||||||||||||||||
Owned by | Union Pacific | ||||||||||||||||
Platforms | 1 side platform, 1 island platform | ||||||||||||||||
Tracks | 5 | ||||||||||||||||
Connections | CTA Buses | ||||||||||||||||
Construction | |||||||||||||||||
Accessible | No | ||||||||||||||||
Other information | |||||||||||||||||
Fare zone | A | ||||||||||||||||
History | |||||||||||||||||
Opened | 1947 | ||||||||||||||||
Passengers | |||||||||||||||||
2018 | 41 (average weekday)[1] 21.2% | ||||||||||||||||
Rank | 214 out of 236[1] | ||||||||||||||||
Services | |||||||||||||||||
| |||||||||||||||||
| |||||||||||||||||
Location | |||||||||||||||||
The station is at North Kedzie Avenue and West Carroll Avenue in an industrial and low-income residential neighborhood. The Chicago Transit Authority's elevated Kedzie station is on West Lake Street, about three blocks to the south. The Garfield Park Conservatory is nearby, and Westinghouse High School is just north of the station. The Union Pacific's California Avenue yard, where Metra coaches for the Union Pacific lines are stored during the day, is just to the east.
As of May 30, 2023, Kedzie is served by 35 trains (18 inbound and 17 outbound) on weekdays. No passenger trains stop at Kedzie station on weekends or holidays. As of 2018, Kedzie is the 214th busiest of the 236 non-downtown stations in the Metra system, with an average of 41 weekday boardings.[1]
References
- "Commuter Rail System Station Boarding/Alighting Count: Summary Results Fall 2018" (PDF). metrarail.com. April 2019. Archived from the original (PDF) on 26 May 2019.