The Market Street Terminal was a station on the
Chicago "L"'s
Lake Street Elevated
The Lake Street Elevated, also known as the Lake branch, is a long branch of the Chicago "L" which is located west of the Chicago Loop and serves the Green Line for its entire length, as well as the Pink Line east of Ashland Avenue. As of Febr ...
today part of the
Green Linebetween 1893 and 1948. The Elevated's original downtown terminus, it opened at the corner of
Madison Street and Market Street (modern-day
Wacker Drive
Wacker Drive is a major multilevel street in Chicago, Illinois, running along the south side of the main branch and the east side of the south branch of the Chicago River in the Loop.Hayner, Don and Tom McNamee, ''Streetwise Chicago'', "Wacker D ...
) on November 6, 1893, alongside the rest of the Elevated. When the Loop was constructed in 1895, the Terminal was required to be demolished but no action was taken. When it closed in 1948, only overflow traffic served it. It was demolished shortly thereafter for the construction of double-decked Wacker Drive.
See also
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Stub terminals of the Chicago "L"
References
Defunct Chicago "L" stations
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