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| Type: | Former Chicago "L" station | ||||||||
| Opened: | August 17, 1902 | ||||||||
| Closed: | 1958 | ||||||||
| Owned: | Chicago Transit Authority (1947 - 1958) Chicago Rapid Transit Company (1924 - 1947) See text before 1924 | ||||||||
| Other Services Header: | Former services | ||||||||
Laramie was a rapid transit station on the Chicago "L" Garfield Park branch, opening in 1902 and serving as the branch's terminal and connecting it with the interurban Aurora, Elgin & Chicago Railroad (AE&C). The AE&C continued downtown on the Garfield Park's trackage in 1905, whereafter it only boarded westbound passengers and alighted eastbound passengers to avoid direct competition with the "L"; as part of the same agreement, the "L" had extended west to the AE&C's station on Des Plaines Avenue. The AE&C, later renamed the Chicago Aurora and Elgin Railroad (CA&E), ceased operation in 1953, and the station closed altogether in 1958 when the Garfield Park branch was replaced with the Congress Line.[1]