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| Address: | 188 North State Street Chicago, Illinois 60601 | ||||||||
| Coordinates: | 41.8848°N -87.6278°W | ||||||||
| Type: | Chicago 'L' rapid transit station | ||||||||
| Style: | CTA | ||||||||
| Line: | State Street subway | ||||||||
| Other: | at via The Pedway at | ||||||||
| Structure: | Subway | ||||||||
| Platform: | 1 Island platform | ||||||||
| Tracks: | 2 | ||||||||
| Bicycle: | Yes (Randolph Entrance) | ||||||||
| Opened: | October 17, 1943 (as part of Washington) June 2, 1996 (as temporary Washington-Lake station) November 18, 1997 (as permanent Lake station) | ||||||||
| Rebuilt: | 1996–97 (Randolph-Washington mezzanine) 2004–05 (Lake-Randolph mezzanine and platform) | ||||||||
| Accessible: | True | ||||||||
| Owned: | City of Chicago | ||||||||
| Former: | Washington (part of that station) Lake-Washington (as temporarily separate station stop) | ||||||||
| Pass Year: | 2022 | ||||||||
| Passengers: | 2,749,185[1] | ||||||||
| Pass Percent: | 33.1 | ||||||||
| Other Services Header: | Former services | ||||||||
| Other Services Collapsible: | yes | ||||||||
| Mapframe: | yes | ||||||||
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Lake is an "L" station on the CTA's Red Line in the Chicago Loop that is part of the State Street subway. Lake is a transfer station between the Red Line and the Brown, Green, Orange, Pink, and Purple Lines at the station and the Blue Line at via the Chicago Pedway. In 2019, Lake had an average of 19,364 weekday passenger entries, making it the busiest 'L' station.[2]
Lake is linked to Millennium Station and Millennium Park via a Chicago Pedway connection that can be accessed at its Randolph–Washington exit.
On November 20, 2009, the Chicago Pedway connecting the unpaid portions of Lake and stations reopened to service.[3]
This station was originally part of the closed station. The two were separated on June 2, 1996, due to the renovation project of the Randolph-Washington mezzanine and Lake became an independent station on November 18, 1997, in order to better facilitate transfers between the Red Line subway and the elevated station.