Granville El Station

December 7, 2007

Granville El Station

Granville is a station on the Chicago Transit Authority‘s Red Line, part of the Chicago ‘L’ metro system. It is located at 1119 West Granville Avenue in Chicago, Illinois (directional coordinates 6200 north, 1200 west). It is in the Edgewater neighborhood, close to the Rogers Park border.

Granville Station was opened as North Edgewater Station in 1908. The station was rebuilt in 1921, and the name was changed to Granville. The present station dates to 1980 when an escalator & elevator were added.

A police station, jointly administered by Loyola University Chicago, the Chicago Transit Authority, and the Chicago Police Department was opened outside the Granville station on March 13, 2006. [1]

Bus Connections

CTA Buses

  • #36 Broadway
  • #N201 Central/Sherman

External links

Granville at Chicago-‘L’.org

Train schedule (PDF) at CTA official site

Posted by Bill Morton
Filed in Chicago Transit Authority, Granville, Granville El Station, Loyola University Chicago, North Edgewater Station, Red Line
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