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| Address: | 220 West 63rd Street Chicago, Illinois 60621 | ||||||||
| Coordinates: | 41.7805°N -87.631°W | ||||||||
| Type: | Chicago 'L' rapid transit station | ||||||||
| 63rd | |||||||||
| Style: | CTA | ||||||||
| Line: | Dan Ryan Branch | ||||||||
| Other: | CTA bus | ||||||||
| Platform: | 1 Island platform | ||||||||
| Structure: | Expressway median | ||||||||
| Tracks: | 2 | ||||||||
| Parking: | No | ||||||||
| Bicycle: | No | ||||||||
| Opened: | September 28, 1969 | ||||||||
| Rebuilt: | 2005 - 06 (renovation) 2013 (refurbished, new elevator installed) | ||||||||
| Accessible: | yes | ||||||||
| Owned: | Chicago Transit Authority | ||||||||
| Former: | 63rd/Wentworth (station sign) | ||||||||
| Pass Year: | 2022 | ||||||||
| Passengers: | 387,535[1] | ||||||||
| Pass Percent: | 5.6 | ||||||||
| Mapframe: | yes | ||||||||
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63rd is a station on the Chicago Transit Authority's 'L' system, serving the Red Line. The station is located in the median of the Dan Ryan Expressway and serves the Englewood neighborhood. It is near the former site of the Englewood Union Station, which served the Pennsylvania Railroad, New York Central, and Rock Island Lines. The former Pennsylvania Railroad tracks (now NS owned) pass over the station. Also visible from the station is the Ashland branch of the Green Line which runs on an elevated structure immediately west of the expressway at the location before turning west on 63rd Street.
Like the eight other stations of the Dan Ryan Branch, 63rd was built by architect Skidmore, Owings & Merrill under a simple design. The station opened on September 28, 1969, before being entirely renovated from 2005 to 2006.
In 2013, the station was renovated with a new elevator installed (along with Garfield and 87th) as part of the Red Line South Reconstruction project and made all the stations on the Dan Ryan branch accessible.[2]