Ravenswood is a railroad station on the North Side of

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serving

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. It is located at 4800 North Ravenswood Avenue, just south of West Lawrence Avenue. A previous Ravenswood station was located at Wilson Avenue, but was replaced with the station at the current location, opposite the

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's Ravenswood Accounting Office & Carload Tracing Bureau, which were housed in a building at 4801 North Ravenswood Avenue. In Metra's zone-based fare system, Ravenswood is in zone B. As of 2018, Ravenswood is the third busiest of Metra's 236 non-downtown stations, with an average of 2,630 weekday boardings. Ravenswood station is near the eastern edge of the Chicago neighborhood also known as Ravenswood and the western edge of Uptown. The station consists of two side platforms, and does not contain a ticket agent booth. Northbound trains stop on the west platform and southbound trains stop on the east platform. Trains go south to

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and as far north as

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. It is the busiest station on the UP North Line and will be rebuilt starting in the fall of 2010 as part of a project that includes replacing 12 bridges along this line. The new station was expected to be completed by May 2014, but construction is still ongoing. As of April 25, 2022, Ravenswood is served by all 35 trains in each direction on weekdays, by 12 of 13 trains in each direction on Saturdays, and by all nine trains in each direction on Sundays. During the summer concert season, the extra weekend train to also stops here. The Damen 'L' station on CTA's Brown Line is three blocks to the west, while the closest Red Line station is

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, located about east of Ravenswood station.

Bus and rail connections

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* Damen CTA * 81 Lawrence (Owl Service)

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Metra - Ravenswood stationLawrence Avenue entrance from Google Maps Street View
{{Lincoln Square, Chicago Metra stations in Chicago Former Chicago and North Western Railway stations Union Pacific North Line