This was the terminal station for the Metropolitan "L" and the Chicago, Aurora & Elgin (CA&E).
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| Brian Morgan posted Wells Street Station was the Chicago home of the Chicago Aurora & Elgin Electric Railway and the Metropolitan Rapid Transit System. Jon Habermaas This is an old picture..before it was used as a connection to to the L the headhouse was two stories. Brian Morgan There was a proposal by the CTA when the Eisenhower Expressway was built that allowed for the C.A.& E. to use the trackage from Oak Park Avenue too Morgan Street then switch to a set of tunnels that would exclusively be used by the Interurban line to a new Terminal in the Loop. his never came to be, yet. The second set of tunnels are still there at the Morgan Street Porthole. Jeff Bransky Brian Morgan, where is the Morgan Street port hole? Uraiwan Dutkiewicz had posted this photo with the comment: "Photo of the Wells St Terminal Train Station (when Wells was called Fifth Ave), 1913, Chicago." |
The building was expanded during the 1920s.
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| Mitch Markovitz commented on a Michigan City depot post By Arthur Gerber, chief Insull Era architect for the North Shore Line, CA&E, and the rebuilding of the older Lake Shore, and new South Shore Line stations, along with Chicago Rapid Transit. Here's the Michigan City's big brother on Wells Street in Chicago. The rebuilt Wells Street Terminal of the Chicago Rapid Transit, used mostly by the Chicago Aurora and Elgin, located between Jackson and Van Buren Streets. |
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| 1929 Chicago Loop Quad @ 24,000 |
In this aerial, about all you can see are shadows of adjacent buildings in the "canyon" formed by the elevated tracks that accessed the rear of the terminal. I added a red line where the tracks ran from the bridge over the Chicago River to the terminal.
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| 1938 Aerial Photo from ILHAP |
It appears that its land is now part of a parking garage.
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| Street View |
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Evan Stair sharedAurora & Elgin Terminal at Wells and Jackson StreetsA girl looks along the empty tracks at the Aurora & Elgin terminal at Wells and Jackson Streets on Oct. 1, 1946, after a strike halted operations of the suburban line. Mark Kocol: So is this the old Wells Street Station serving the Metropolitan West Side Elevated? I have never seen a picture on its platform(s) before, only Wells Street shots. Always piqued my interest - I used to have an office at 330 S Wells and the parking garage in the station's old location had some noticeable tweaks to the trackage connecting to El in that spot. |
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| Dennis DeBruler commented on Mark's comment Yes. It served both the Metropolitan West "L" and the CA&E. In the background we can see one of the control towers for the Metropolitan "L" Bridge. 1897 Map: http://www.davidrumsey.com/maps3850.html https://industrialscenery.blogspot.com/2015/12/metropolitan-l-bridge-and-1891-pueblo.html |
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