State/Lake station

State/Lake is an 'L' station serving the CTA's Brown, Green, Orange, Pink, and Purple Lines. It is an elevated station with two side platforms, located in the Chicago Loop at 200 North State Street. The CTA offers farecard transfers between this station and the Lake subway station on the Red Line.

State/Lake   0E/0W 200N
Chicago 'L' rapid transit station
Location	200 North State Street Chicago, Illinois 60601
Coordinates	41.88574°N 87.627835°W
Owned by	Chicago Transit Authority
Line(s)	Loop Elevated
Platforms	2 side platforms
Tracks	2
Connections	Red at Lake
Construction
Structure type	Elevated
History
Opened	September 22, 1895
Passengers
2019	3,783,187[1]  0.1%
Rank	6 out of 143
Services
Preceding station Chicago "L" Following station Clark/Lake One-way operation Orange Line Washington/​Wabash toward Midway Clark/Lake toward Harlem/Lake Green Line Washington/​Wabash toward Ashland/63rd or Cottage Grove Clark/Lake One-way operation Purple Line Express Washington/​Wabash toward Linden Pink Line Washington/​Wabash toward 54th/Cermak Clark/Lake toward Kimball Brown Line Washington/​Wabash One-way operation
Former services Preceding station Chicago "L" Following station Clark/Lake One-way operation Orange Line Randolph/Wabash Closed 2017 toward Midway Clark/Lake toward Harlem/Lake Green Line Randolph/Wabash Closed 2017 toward Ashland/63rd or Cottage Grove Clark/Lake One-way operation Purple Line Express Randolph/Wabash Closed 2017 toward Linden Pink Line Randolph/Wabash Closed 2017 toward 54th/Cermak Clark/Lake toward Kimball Brown Line Randolph/Wabash Closed 2017 One-way operation
Track layout Brown and Green Lines west to Kimball and Harlem/Lake State St. (Red Line) Purple, Orange, Green, and Pink Lines east to Linden, Midway , Ashland/63rd, Cottage Grove, and 54th/Cermak

History

The station in 1949 decorated for Christmas

A passenger enters the station as it appears quarter after 7 o'clock in the evening.

State/Lake station opened on September 22, 1895, as part on the Lake Street Elevated Railroad's extension into the Chicago Loop that later became the north side of the Union Loop.[2] State/Lake is the last station on this section of the Loop to retain many of its original features.

One of a series of videos "shot on iPhone 6" to feature in a 2015 Apple advertising campaign [3] features the short journey between Randolph/Wabash and State/Lake shot in time lapse.

Bus connections

CTA

• 2 Hyde Park Express (Weekday Rush Hours only)
• 6 Jackson Park Express
• 10 Museum of Science and Industry (Memorial Day through Labor Day only)
• 29 State
• 36 Broadway
• 62 Archer (Owl Service)
• 146 Inner Drive/Michigan Express

Notes and references

Notes

References

1. "Monthly Ridership Report – December 2019" (PDF). Chicago Transit Authority, Ridership Analysis and Reporting. January 13, 2020. Retrieved March 19, 2020.
2. State/Lake. Chicago-"L".org (URL accessed October 8, 2006).
3. Cocu L - Shot on iPhone 6 "Shot on iPhone 6 by Cocu L"

External links

• Historic American Engineering Record (HAER) No. IL-1-H, "Union Elevated Railroad, State-Lake Station"
• State Street entrance from Google Maps Street View