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WRIGHTWOOD 2600N 1000W
Former Chicago 'L' rapid transit station
Location of the demolished station
General information
Location	Wrightwood Avenue, Lincoln Avenue, and Sheffield Avenue Chicago, Illinois
Coordinates	41°55′43″N 87°39′11″W / 41.9287°N 87.6530°W / 41.9287; -87.6530
Owned by	Chicago Transit Authority
Line(s)	North Side Main Line
Platforms	2 side platforms
Tracks	4 tracks (2 express)
Construction
Structure type	Elevated
History
Opened	May 31, 1900; 124 years ago (1900-05-31)
Closed	August 1, 1949; 75 years ago (1949-08-01)
Former services
Preceding station Chicago "L" Following station Diverseytoward Howard North Side main line Fullertontoward Loop (Randolph/Wells) or North Water Terminal
Location

Wrightwood was a station on the Chicago Transit Authority's North Side Main Line, which is now part of the Brown Line. The station was located at Wrightwood Avenue, Lincoln Avenue, and Sheffield Avenue in the Lincoln Park neighborhood of Chicago. Wrightwood was situated south of Diversey and north of Fullerton. Wrightwood opened on May 31, 1900, and closed on August 1, 1949, along with 22 other stations as part of a CTA service revision.

Station details

Operations and connections

Wrightwood was one of five stations on the Ravenswood route – alongside Western, Irving Park, Addison, and Paulina – served by the Lincoln Avenue streetcar. A carbarn was built at the corner of Lincoln and Wrightwood between 1908 and 1910.

Streetcars serving the Ashland branch of the Lincoln Avenue streetcar terminated south at Wrightwood instead of downtown starting February 1, 1889. This ceased by July 1913, when branch streetcar service was cut back farther north at Belmont.

References

1. Garfield, Graham. "Wrightwood". Chicago-L.org. Retrieved October 7, 2009.
2. "Begin Skip-Stop Runs Monday on North, South 'L'". Chicago Daily Tribune. July 29, 1949. p. A9.
3. Lind, Alan R. (1974). Chicago Surface Lines: An Illustrated History. Park Forest, Illinois: Transport History Press. p. 280.
4. Lind 1974, p. 360
5. Lind 1974, p. 228

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