Austin station (CTA Blue Line)

Austin   1W 1000S
File:Platform at Austin, looking east (51378631651).jpg
General information
Location	1050 South Austin Boulevard Oak Park, Illinois 60304
Coordinates
Owned by	Chicago Transit Authority
Line	Forest Park Branch
Platforms	1 island platform
Tracks	2
Construction
Structure type	Expressway median
Accessible	No
History
Opened	March 20, 1960 (1960-03-20)
Passengers
2024	199,043 Increase 7.6%
Services
Preceding station File:Chicago Transit Authority Logo.svg Chicago "L" Following station Oak Park toward Forest Park Blue Line Cicero toward O'Hare File:Pictograms-nps-airport.svg
Former services Preceding station File:Chicago Transit Authority Logo.svg Chicago "L" Following station Oak Park toward Des Plaines Congress branch Central Closed 1973 toward Jefferson Park
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Location

Austin is a station on the 'L' system, serving the Blue Line's Forest Park branch. It is located at Austin Boulevard alongside the Eisenhower Expressway in Oak Park, Illinois. The station has an auxiliary entrance/exit at Lombard Avenue. After CTA Blue Line trains pass the station, the CTA line splits away from the Baltimore and Ohio Chicago Terminal Railroad lines letting the CTA Blue Line continue into Chicago afterwards.

Bus connections

CTA

• 91 Austin

Pace

• 315 Austin Boulevard

External links

• Error creating thumbnail: File missing Media related to at Wikimedia Commons
• Austin (Congress Line) Station Page
• Lombard Avenue entrance from Google Maps Street View
• Austin Boulevard entrance from Google Maps Street View

File:19680317 02 CTA Congress L @ Lombard Ave..jpg

A CTA train heads towards the Austin station in 1968 (then known as the Congress Branch instead of the Blue Line)