Austin is a
station on the
'L' system, serving the
Blue Line's Forest Park
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Examples Chile
* Forest Park, Santiago
China
*Gongqing Forest Park, Shanghai
* Mufushan National Fores ...
branch. It is located at Austin Boulevard alongside the
Eisenhower Expressway
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in
Oak Park, Illinois
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. The station has an auxiliary entrance/exit at Lombard Avenue. After
CTA Blue Line
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trains pass the station, the
CTA line splits away from the
Baltimore and Ohio Chicago Terminal Railroad
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lines letting the
CTA Blue Line
The Blue Line is a Chicago "L" line which extends through The Loop from O'Hare International Airport at the far northwest end of the city, through downtown via the Milwaukee–Dearborn subway and across the West Side to its southwest end ...
continue into Chicago afterwards.
Bus connections
CTA
*
91 Austin
Pace
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*Pace (transit), a bus operator in the suburbs of Chicago, US
* Pace Airlines, an American charter airline
*Pace Foods, a maker of a popular brand of salsa sold in North America, owned by Campbell Soup Compan ...
*
315 Austin Boulevard
References
External links
*
Austin (Congress Line) Station PageLombard Avenue entrance from Google Maps Street ViewAustin Boulevard entrance from Google Maps Street View
CTA Blue Line stations
Railway stations in the United States opened in 1960
Oak Park, Illinois
1960 establishments in Illinois
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