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75th Street/Grand Crossing station

Commuter rail station in Chicago, Illinois

Field	Value
style	Metra	name={{Metra header
name	75th Street/Grand Crossing
icon	}}
image	Northbound tracks at 75th Street Grand Crossing, looking south (52933677910).jpg
image_caption	75th Street (Grand Crossing) station in May 2023
address	75th Street and South Chicago Avenue
Greater Grand Crossing,
Chicago, Illinois
coordinates
line	University Park Sub District
other	CTA Bus
platform	1 Island platform
tracks	4
passengers	14 (average weekday)
pass_year	2018
pass_percent	-50
pass_rank	231 out of 236
rebuilt	1969
electrified
accessible	No
owned	Metra
zone	2
services
other_services_header	Former services
other_services_collapsible	yes
{{Adjacent stations	system	Illinois Central Railroad
line2	Electric Suburban	left2=79th Street (Chatham)	right2=72nd Street	type2=Main Line & Blue Island}}
map_state	collapsed
route_map	{{Routemap	legend=track	inline=y	map=
mapframe	yes
mapframe-zoom	15
mapframe-marker-color	#ff4e00
mapframe-marker	rail

Greater Grand Crossing, Chicago, Illinois vSTR!~MFADEg\vSTR!~MFADEg ~~ ~~ ~~ north to v-STR\vPSTR(M)\vSTR- v-STR\vPSTR(M)\vSTR- RP2q!~RP22+4!~MFADEgq\RP2c3!~RP2q!~vSTR\RP2q!~vSTR\RP2q!~MFADEfq ~~ ~~ 75th St. RP2c1\RP2e+4!~vSTR\RP2q!~vSTR\RP22+w!~MFADE2+4 ~~ ~~ South Chicago Ave. vSTR!~MFADEf\vSTR!~MFADEf ~~ ~~ ~~ south to | mapframe-zoom = 15 | mapframe-marker-color = #ff4e00 | mapframe-marker = rail 75th Street/Grand Crossing is an electrified commuter rail station along the Metra Electric Main Line in the Greater Grand Crossing neighborhood of Chicago, Illinois. It is located at and over both 75th Street and South Chicago Avenue, and is 9.3 mi away from the northern terminus at Millennium Station. In Metra's zone-based fare system, Grand Crossing is in zone 2. , the station is the 231st busiest of Metra's 236 non-downtown stations, with an average of 14 weekday boardings.

75th Street station is the first station on the main line after the South Chicago Branch diverges.

No parking is available for this station, however the Chicago Transit Authority does provide bus service here.

History

The station and the neighborhood that surrounds it were named for the Grand Crossing, an on-grade railway junction constructed in 1853 by mutual agreement between the Lake Shore and Michigan Southern Railway (New York Central) and the Illinois Central Railroad in settlement of a right-of-way feud. By 1912, this on-grade crossing was eliminated when the successor line to the LS & MS was elevated. The now abandoned Nickel Plate Railroad tracks also crisscrossed the area. Another elevated crossing was constructed for the Chicago Skyway in 1958. As of 2011, these lines are owned by Metra, Canadian National Railway, and Norfolk Southern Railway.

Bus connections

CTA

South Chicago (Monday–Saturday only)
74th/75th

References

[http://web.me.com/willvdv/chirailfan/mmelec.html Metra Railfan Tips - Metra Electric]
(April 2019). "Commuter Rail System Station Boarding/Alighting Count: Summary Results Fall 2018".
Chicago Area Transportation Study. "System Facilities".

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