Lake station (CTA)

Lake is an "L" station on the CTA's Red Line in the Chicago Loop that is part of the State Street subway. Lake is a transfer station between the Red Line and the Brown, Green, Orange, Pink, and Purple Lines at the State/Lake station and the Blue Line at Washington via the Chicago Pedway. In 2019, Lake had an average of 19,364 weekday passenger entries, making it the busiest 'L' station.[2]

Lake   200N 0E/0W
Chicago 'L' rapid transit station
General information
Location	188 North State Street Chicago, Illinois 60601
Coordinates	41.884809°N 87.627813°W / 41.884809; -87.627813
Owned by	City of Chicago
Line(s)	State Street subway
Platforms	1 Island platform
Tracks	2
Connections	Blue at Washington via The Pedway Brown Green Orange Pink Purple at State/Lake
Construction
Structure type	Subway
Bicycle facilities	Yes (Randolph Entrance)
Accessible	Yes
History
Opened	October 17, 1943 (as part of Washington) June 2, 1996 (as temporary Washington-Lake station) November 18, 1997 (as permanent Lake station)
Rebuilt	1996–97 (Randolph-Washington mezzanine) 2004–05 (Lake-Randolph mezzanine and platform)
Previous names	Washington (part of that station) Lake-Washington (as temporarily separate station stop)
Passengers
2021	2,065,791[1]  8.56%
Rank	1 out of 143
Services
Preceding station Chicago "L" Following station Grand toward Howard Red Line Monroe toward 95th/Dan Ryan
Former services Preceding station Chicago "L" Following station Grand toward Howard Red Line Washington Closed 2006 toward 95th/Dan Ryan
Track layout State Street Red north to Howard Lake Street  ( Brown, Green, Orange, Pink, and Purple ) Benton Pl. Randolph St. Red south to 95th/Dan Ryan
Location

Lake is linked to Millennium Station and Millennium Park via a Chicago Pedway connection that can be accessed at its Randolph–Washington exit.

On November 20, 2009, the Chicago Pedway connecting the unpaid portions of Lake and Washington stations reopened to service.[3]

In addition it got Dunkin Donuts, in the subway station and the first two shopping areas, Macy's and the same goes to Block 37.

This station was originally part of the now-abandoned Washington station. The two were separated on June 2, 1996, due to the renovation project of the Randolph-Washington mezzanine and Lake became an independent station on November 18, 1997, in order to better facilitate transfers between the Red Line subway and the elevated State/Lake station.