Clinton station (CTA Blue Line)
subway station on the Chicago Transit Authority's 'L' system, serving the Blue Line
Clinton is a subway station on the Chicago Transit Authority's 'L' system, serving the Blue Line and the West Loop neighborhood of the larger Near West Side community area. The Congress Branch of the Blue Line opened in June 1958, and connected to the existing Dearborn subway at LaSalle. It is the closest 'L' station to Union Station, which doubles as Chicago's Amtrak station and the downtown terminal for several Metra lines. It is also the closest station to Chicago's Greyhound bus terminal. Union Station is two blocks north, while Greyhound is one block west.
It is the deepest station on the CTA system.
History
Elevated station
Underground station
The current underground station opened on June 22, 1958, as a western extension of the Milwaukee–Dearborn subway, continuing west toward the Congress branch. Before then, the subway ended at LaSalle station east across the South Branch Chicago River.
This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Clinton station (CTA Blue Line)” as subway station on the Chicago Transit Authority's 'L' system, serving the Blue Line. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.
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The subject matters to the places & architecture register because the source frames it as subway station on the Chicago Transit Authority's 'L' system, serving the Blue Line. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.
The strongest evidence will usually combine a dated visual record with documents produced by the authority responsible for the place. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 20, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q2979347. Authority coordinates are 41.876, -87.641. 2 of 2 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1958.
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This entry incorporates text from “Clinton station (CTA Blue Line)” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.