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Forest Park Branch

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Blue Line

The Forest Park branch for most of its length runs in the middle of the Eisenhower Expwy. This line replaced the original Garfield Park branch to Desplaines (which is now called Forest Park on the CTA), that succumbed to the new freeway in the 1950's

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chi-hr-blue-forestprk-042505-02.jpg (54645 bytes)View of the Forest Park Terminal. (4/25/05) chi-hr-blue-forestprk-042505-01.jpg (47073 bytes)The entrance to the station is below. Park-n-ride lot is to the right, busses drop-off is at the lower level.
chi-hr-blue-cicero-042205-01.jpg (43357 bytes)View of the Cicero station as seen from a bus on the Expwy. (4/22/05) chi-hr-blue-freeway-042205-01.jpg (49248 bytes)We are racing an inbound train. (4/22/05)

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