Jefferson Park Transit Center

The Jefferson Park Transit Center is an intermodal passenger transport hub in the Jefferson Park neighborhood of Chicago, Illinois. It serves as a station for rail and also as a bus terminal. Jefferson Park Transit Center's railroad station is on Metra's Union Pacific Northwest Line, with the station located at 4963 North Milwaukee Avenue. Jefferson Park is 9.1 miles (14.6 km) away from Ogilvie Transportation Center in downtown Chicago, the inbound terminus of the Union Pacific Northwest Line. Under Metra's zone-based fare system, Jefferson Park is in zone 2. As of 2018, Jefferson Park is the 97th busiest of Metra's 236 non-downtown stations, with an average of 510 weekday boardings.

Jefferson Park

Jefferson Park
 
4900N
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Bus terminal at the Jefferson Park Transit Center
General information
Location4963 North Milwaukee Avenue (Metra)
4917 North Milwaukee Avenue (CTA)
Jefferson Park, Chicago, Illinois 60630
Coordinates41°58′15″N 87°45′40″W
Owned byChicago Transit Authority & Metra
Line(s)Metra Union Pacific Northwest
CTA O'Hare Branch
Platforms1 side platform, 1 island platform (Metra)
1 island platform (CTA)
Tracks5 (3 Metra, 2 CTA)
Connections CTA Buses
Pace Buses
Construction
Structure typeElevated (Metra)
Expressway median (CTA)
Platform levels3
ParkingYes, $1.50 (Independent)
Bicycle facilitiesYes
AccessibleYes
Other information
Fare zone2 (Metra)
History
Openedcirca 1858 (1858) (CStP&FDL)
February 1, 1970 (1970-02-01) (CTA)
Rebuilt1958 (1958)
(C&NW)
2000–2001 (2001)
(elevator added, minor renovations)
2018–2019 (2019)
(bus terminal and station renovation)
ElectrifiedYes; Third rail (CTA)
No (Metra)
Passengers
20221,042,823 25% (CTA)
2018510 (average weekday) 22.3% (Metra)
Rank97 out of 236 (Metra)
Services
Preceding station Metra Following station
Gladstone Park
Weekday limited
toward Harvard or McHenry
Union Pacific Northwest Irving Park
toward Ogilvie
Preceding station Chicago "L" Following station
Harlem
toward O'Hare
Blue Line Montrose
Former services
Preceding station Chicago and North Western Railway Following station
Park Ridge
toward Minneapolis
Chicago – Minneapolis via Madison Clybourn
toward Chicago
Gladstone Park Wisconsin Division Mayfair
toward Chicago
Location

As of May 30, 2023, Metra's Jefferson Park station is served by 60 trains (29 inbound, 31 outbound) on weekdays, by 31 trains (16 inbound, 15 outbound) on Saturdays, and by 19 trains (nine inbound, 10 outbound) on Sundays.

It is also an 'L' station on the Blue Line, which stops at a single island platform in the median of the Kennedy Expressway at 4917 North Milwaukee Avenue. Blue Line trains run 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, with intervals of as little as 2–7 minutes during rush hour, and take 25 minutes to travel to the Loop. From 1970 to 1983, this was the terminal for West-Northwest Line trains once the service was extended from Logan Square.

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