Jefferson Park Transit Center

Jefferson Park Jefferson Park   4900N 5400W
Bus terminal at the Jefferson Park Transit Center
General information
Location	4963 North Milwaukee Avenue (Metra) 4917 North Milwaukee Avenue (CTA) Jefferson Park, Chicago, Illinois 60630
Coordinates	41°58′15″N 87°45′40″W / 41.970766°N 87.761232°W / 41.970766; -87.761232
Owned by	Chicago Transit Authority & Metra
Line(s)	UP Harvard Subdivision (Metra) O'Hare Branch (CTA)
Platforms	1 side platform, 1 island platform (Metra) 1 island platform (CTA)
Tracks	5 (3 Metra, 2 CTA)
Connections	CTA Buses Pace Buses
Construction
Structure type	Elevated (Metra) Expressway median (CTA)
Platform levels	3
Parking	Yes, $1.50 (Independent)
Bicycle facilities	Yes
Accessible	Yes
Other information
Fare zone	2 (Metra)
History
Opened	circa 1858; 166 years ago (1858) (CStP&FDL) February 1, 1970; 54 years ago (1970-02-01) (CTA)
Rebuilt	1958; 66 years ago (1958) (C&NW) 2000–2001; 23 years ago (2001) (elevator added, minor renovations) 2018–2019; 5 years ago (2019) (bus terminal and station renovation)
Electrified	Yes; Third rail (CTA) No (Metra)
Passengers
2022	1,042,823[1]  25% (CTA)
2018	510 (average weekday)[2]  22.3% (Metra)
Rank	97 out of 236 (Metra)[2]
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 toward Forest Park
Former services Preceding station Chicago and North Western Railway Following station Park Ridge toward Minneapolis Chicago – Minneapolis via Madison Clybourn toward Chicago Gladstone Park toward Crystal Lake Wisconsin Division Mayfair toward Chicago
Track layout Legend UP-NW to Harvard or McHenry Blue to O'Hare Milwaukee Avenue Jefferson Park I-90 (Kennedy Expy.) North bus terminal South bus terminal Jefferson Park Blue Blue to Forest Park UP-NW to Ogilvie
Location

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.^[3] Under Metra's zone-based fare system, Jefferson Park is in zone 2. As of 2018^[update], Jefferson Park is the 97th busiest of Metra's 236 non-downtown stations, with an average of 510 weekday boardings.^[2]

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.^{[citation needed]} From 1970 to 1983, this was the terminal for West-Northwest Line trains once the service was extended from Logan Square.