Mayfair is a
Metra
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station located on the
Milwaukee District North Line
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on the border between the
Albany Park and
Portage Park
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community areas of
Chicago, Illinois
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. The station is officially located at 4357 North Cicero Avenue (
Illinois Route 50
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), however the actual location is the northeast corner of West Pensacola and North Kilpatrick Avenues. It is away from
Chicago Union Station
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, the southern terminus of the line,
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Hi ...
. In Metra's zone-based fare system, Mayfair is in zone 2. As of 2018, Mayfair is the 147th busiest of Metra's 236 non-downtown stations, with an average of 281 weekday boardings.Montrose Avenue
Montrose Avenue is a street in Chicago. Located north of Madison Street, it is 4400N in Chicago's grid system. It is served by stations on the Chicago Transit Authority
The Chicago Transit Authority (CTA) is the operator of mass transit ...
station, as well as CTA's bus system. Although the line does have an at-grade junction with Union Pacific Northwest Line
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just north of the station platforms, there are no direct connections from here to any of the Union Pacific Northwest Line's stops within Albany Park. The Northwest Line station platforms closed in 1958.
Bus and rail connections
CTA Blue Line
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* Montrose
CTA Buses
* 54 Cicero
* 54A North Cicero/Skokie Blvd
* 78 Montrose
References
External links
FlickrimagesMontrose Avenue entrance from Google Maps Street View
Metra stations in Chicago
Former Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific Railroad stations
Former Chicago and North Western Railway stations
Railway stations in the United States opened in 1896
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