Forest Park

Forest Park
Station statistics
Address	711 S. Des Plaines Avenue, Forest Park, Illinois 60130
Coordinates	(7650 W/700 S)
Lines	Blue Line
Structure	Elevated
Platforms	1 island platform
Tracks	2
Parking	1051 Spaces
Other information
Opened	March 11, 1905
Rebuilt	1953, 1959, 1981-82
Accessible
Owned by	Chicago Transit Authority
Formerly	Desplaines
Traffic
Passengers (2008)	1,249,061 ▲ 7% (CTA)

Forest Park is a station on the Chicago Transit Authority's 'L' system, located in the city of Forest Park and serving the Blue Line. Before the Congress Line was built it served as terimal for the Garfield Line, and is possibly the only station on that line to survive today. It is the western terminus of the Forest Park branch. The station was known as Desplaines until 1994. The station contains a 1051-space Park and Ride lot which uses the "Pay and Display" system, in which fees are paid at the lot entrance. This system is unique among CTA Park and Ride lots; at all other lots, fees are paid in numbered boxes in the station house.

It formerly served as a station on the Chicago Aurora and Elgin Railroad.

Bus connections

CTA

• #17 Westchester

Pace

• #301 Roosevelt Road
• #303 Madison Street-9th Avenue
• #305 Cicero-River Forest
• #308 Medical Center
• #310 Madison Street-Hillside
• #317 Westchester
• #318 West North Avenue
• #320 Madison Street
• #391 Near West Suburbs-United Parcel Service Hodgkins
• #747 DuPage Connection
• #757 Northwest Connection
• #767 Congress/Douglas-Prairie Stone Connection

Station Exterior

References

• Forest Park Station Page

Coordinates: 41°52′27″N 87°49′02″W / 41.874257°N 87.817318°W / 41.874257; -87.817318