UIC-Halsted
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UIC-Halstead is the easternmost Blue Line Station located in the median of the Eisenhower Expressway. Just after the station (in view of the platfroms) trains curve downward go go underground into the Dearborn Street subway into downtown. The station has the standard island platform with a canopy covering its entire length and when it opened ramps at each end going up to station house exits at each end of the platform, both of these exits are still fully open with regular turnstiles. They were closed and renovated, one after another in 2000 to 2001 with the ramps both rebuilt to be ADA complaint (making both entrances assessable). The western exit to Morgan Avenue was closed in the 1980s before reopening as an exit and then becoming an entrance again in 2000 when the ramp up to it was rebuilt for ADA compliancy. The eastern exit to Halstead has always been open but got a similar rebuild in 2001, it also got a decorative top (unphotographed).
The station received increased usage from the University of Illinois Chicago and an additional entrance in the middle of the platform was warranted to be built. These are built on what was clearly once an overpass for cars (I believe) but is now only a pedestrian overpass between the southern end of Peoria Street and the UIC campus. On Sitting on portions of the western side of the overpass is a redbrick station house with a flat white roof doors lead inside to turnstiles before leading out through door frames to a small overpass area with two staircases down to the platform, there is an additional staircase (covered and with walls made of glass) up to two high exit only turnstiles on the eastern side of this overpass.
All Photos taken on 2 August, 2011
