Grand was a station on the

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's North Side Main Line, which is now part of the Brown Line. The station was located at Grand Avenue and Franklin Street in the Near North Side neighborhood of

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. Grand was situated south of

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and north of

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. Grand opened in 1921 to replace the Kinzie station and closed on September 20, 1970, due to low ridership.

Station details

Operations and connections

In 1921, Grand Avenue had a streetcar service from either

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or Western Avenue (cars alternated between them) in the west to

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in the east. By 1928, this route had

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between 1 and 5 a.m., wherein cars ran once every thirty minutes; during the day, streetcar lines in Chicago typically had intervals of between eight and fifteen minutes per car. Service was cut back from Navy Pier on September 28, 1941. Buses began supplementing streetcar service to serve the Grand stations on the North Side Main Line and on the State Street Subway and relieve streetcar congestion, the service was extended to the entirety of the route on December 4, 1949; buses would replace streetcars altogether on April 1, 1951. Trains ran on the Grand Avenue tracks on occasionmotor-trailer trains ran between July 13, 1922, and May 4, 1923, and multiple-unit trains ran between November 18, 1926, and January 3, 1928.

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* Defunct Chicago "L" stations Railway stations in the United States opened in 1921 Railway stations closed in 1970 1921 establishments in Illinois 1970 disestablishments in Illinois Former North Shore Line stations {{chicago-metro-stub