Main (4900W/8400N)
Main Street and Skokie Blvd., 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: n/a
Skip-Stop Type: n/a
Rebuilt: n/a
Status: Demolished

History:

Built as part of the Chicago, North Shore & Milwaukee Railroad's Skokie Valley Route, a high-speed bypass for the interurban around the more congested North Shore suburbs, the Chicago rapid transit had trackage rights on the line and operated local service to intermediate stations between Howard and Dempster, including Main. Although North Shore Line trains also used these tracks for their Skokie Valley trains, only the CRT stopped at this station. Both the North Shore Line and Chicago Rapid Transit Company were owned by utilities magnate Samuel Insull.

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.

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.