Kedzie
3200W
4700N
4700N
Kedzie was closed for renovations from February 20, 2006 to August 16, 2006 and was then the temporary terminus of the Brown Line for four months from September 2006 to January 2007 as Kimball was being rebuilt. The roll sings and automated announcements still said Kimball during this temporary construction. Trains still ran into the Kimball station out of service to relay and change crews. The station like all grade level stations has a single wooden island platform that is quite bare with just two small canopied benches to provide protection from the elements for waiting passengers. There are modern brown lampposts that line the platforms. There are entrances at either end of the station. At the eastern end is the full time entrance from Kedzie Avenue located inside a narrow but long modern station house with glass walls and a floor that gradually slopes downward to the middle of Kedzie Avenue's Grade Crossing. On one wall of the entrance area of the station house, across from the customer assistant booth and Farecard Vending machines before the turnstiles is Round and Round, Art glass by Anne Marie Karlsen, 2007. There is a secondary entrance at the western end with a station house of a similar design, inside are six steps that lead down to a high entrance turnstile and then into the middle of Spaulding Avenue. This exit when it first opened was fully staffed with a few turnstiles instead and a makeshift customer assistant booth. This is because it is the closest exit to the Kimball Station and was used by those passengers when the platforms of the terminus were being extended for 8 car trains.
All photos taken on 1 August, 2011
