Kedzie is an 'L' station on the CTA's Brown Line. It is an at-grade station located in Chicago's Albany Park neighborhood at 4648 North Kedzie, with an auxiliary entrance at 4649 North Spaulding Avenue. The adjacent stations are , the terminus of the line about one third of a mile (0.536 km) to the north west, and , which is located about one third of a mile (0.536 km) to the east. The station and nearby

Kedzie Avenue Kedzie Avenue is a major north–south street in Chicago, Illinois. Both Kedzie streets in Chicago and suburban Evanston are named after John H. Kedzie, an early Chicago real-estate developer. Kedzie Avenue extends more than from the southern ...

are both named after John H. Kedzie, an early Chicago real-estate developer.

History

Kedzie Station was originally constructed in 1907 as part of

Northwestern Elevated Railroad The Northwestern Elevated Railroad was the last of the privately constructed rapid transit lines to be built in Chicago. The line ran from the Loop in downtown Chicago north to Wilson Avenue in Chicago's Uptown neighborhood with a branch to Raven ...

's Ravenswood line. The station house was replaced in 1975, and the whole station was demolished and rebuilt in 2006 as part of the Brown Line Capacity Expansion Project. The new station, which opened on August 16, 2006, can support eight railcars, and is accessible to passengers with disabilities. On October 1, 2009, the parking lot for this station was closed.

1977 fatal accident

This station was the site of a fatal 1977 accident involving an intoxicated Korean immigrant who was electrocuted by the

third rail A third rail, also known as a live rail, electric rail or conductor rail, is a method of providing electric power to a railway locomotive or train, through a semi-continuous rigid conductor placed alongside or between the rails of a railway ...

while attempting to urinate on the track. The CTA was found 50 percent responsible and the $1.5 million judgment against them was eventually affirmed by the Illinois Supreme Court in 1992.
Lee v. Chicago Transit Authority
'' 152 Ill.2d 432, 605 N.E.2d 493 (1992). The majority opinion, signed by Justice

Charles E. Freeman Charles E. Freeman (December 12, 1933 – March 2, 2020) was an American attorney who served as a justice of the Illinois Supreme Court. He was elected to the position on November 6, 1990, becoming its first African-American justice. He served a ...

, noted that there was evidence before the trial court that this particular stretch of railroad line is one of the only railroad lines in the United States that uses an unprotected, unguarded, and unfenced third rail.

References

External links

Kedzie (Ravenswood Line) Station Page
at Chicago-'L'.org
Train schedule (PDF)
a
CTA official site

Spaulding Avenue entrance from Google Maps Street View

Kedzie Avenue entrance from Google Maps Street View
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