Kostner (4400W/7800N)
Kostner Avenue and Mulford Street, Village of Skokie

Service Notes:

North Side Division, Skokie branch

Quick Facts:

Address: TBD
Established: March 28, 1925
Original Line: North Side Division, Niles Center branch
Previous Names: Schreiber Road
Skip-Stop Type: n/a
Rebuilt: n/a
Status: Demolished

History:

This was one of two stations in Niles Center (later Skokie) on the east-west leg of the Skokie branch of the North Side Division of the Chicago Rapid Transit. When it was built in 1925, the land around it was vacant, farmland at best.

The station itself was small, as was the platform, and set between the tracks. The building's architecture resembles a miniature version of the Dempster station further down the line, especially in the treatment of the brickwork and the shape of the support columns, indicating that this station was also designed by Arthur U. Gerber. Although North Shore Line trains also used these tracks for their Skokie Valley trains, only the CRT stopped at this station.

By 1948, when the station closed, the area had boomed with residential construction, like much of Skokie, thanks to postwar baby boomers. However, the station wasn't torn down until 1964, when the CTA^® reconstructed the line into the Skokie Swift, a shuttle service necessitating the removal of all intermediate stations.