"Elevated" Train Stations

Boyd Owens · **Posted:** Wed May 14, 2003 10:41 am

Some nice historical photos from the Chicago area.

Boyd

"Elevated" Train Stations
bowens@rypn.org

Frank Hicks · **Posted:** Wed May 14, 2003 11:46 am

Some of those photos are of the station at Dempster Street in Skokie, which was originally built by the Chicago North Shore & Milwaukee interurban line. This was along the Skokie Valley Route, which was built in the mid-1920's as a cutoff to avoid the slower Shore Line Route along the north shore.

The link below is to a page on www.chicago-l.org about Dempster Street Station, which is currently undergoing renovation. It was moved a short distance from its original location last year and is now being restored to its original grandeur.

Frank Hicks

Dempster Street, Skokie

fullparallel@wideopenwest.com

Michael Seitz · **Posted:** Wed May 14, 2003 11:59 pm

Is this the building that METRA was going to knock down for a parking lot?

Michael Seitz
Missoula MT

> Some of those photos are of the station at
> Dempster Street in Skokie, which was
> originally built by the Chicago North Shore
> & Milwaukee interurban line. This was
> along the Skokie Valley Route, which was
> built in the mid-1920's as a cutoff to avoid
> the slower Shore Line Route along the north
> shore.

> The link below is to a page on
> www.chicago-l.org about Dempster Street
> Station, which is currently undergoing
> renovation. It was moved a short distance
> from its original location last year and is
> now being restored to its original grandeur.

> Frank Hicks

mikefrommontana@juno.com

Peter Nicholson · **Posted:** Thu May 15, 2003 9:03 pm

> Is this the building that METRA was going to
> knock down for a parking lot?

Actually, the building was going be knocked down as part of an expansion of the CTA Skokie Swift parking lot and a re-configuration of the parking lot entrances/exits on Dempster St. The station has now been moved approximately 100 feet East of its original location and is being restored (reconstructed would be a better word) as indicated in the photos. This depot, opened in 1926 for the Skokie Valley route of the North Shore Line and the Niles Center "L", has been a cause cÃ¨lÃ©bre in local architectural preservation circles for many years. .

pnichol6@prodigy.net