Foster station

Foster is a station on the 's 'L' system, on the Purple Line in . It is located at 900 Foster Street, just a few blocks west of Northwestern University's Evanston campus.
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  • Type: Metro station
  • Description: metro station
  • Also known as: “Foster”
  • Address: 900 Foster Street, Evanston, IL 60201
  • Wheelchair access: no

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Marywood Academy and Noyes station.

Town hall
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The is a historic building located at 2100 Ridge Avenue in , . The building was built in 1900 as Visitation Academy to serve as a girls' Catholic school led by the Visitation Sisters. is situated 1,300 feet northwest of Foster station.

Metro station
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Noyes is a station on the 's 'L' system, on the Purple Line in . It is located at 909 Noyes Street, just a few blocks west of the north end of Northwestern University's Evanston campus. is situated 1,400 feet north of Foster station.

Library
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Charles is an academic library of Northwestern University, a private research university in . Deering served as the university's main library on the Evanston campus from 1933, when it was established, until the construction of the Northwestern University Main Library in 1970. is situated 2,300 feet east of Foster station.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Evanston and Evanston Lakeshore Historic District.

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is a city in the region of along the shores of . has many identities: college town, dining destination, cultural center and gateway to the wealthy North Shore, although the city itself is anything but homogeneous in regards to economic status, culture and race.

Neighborhood
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The is a residential historic district in , . The district encompasses a section of southeast Evanston that was developed in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

Neighborhood
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is the principal east-west artery in the far north of and is a major thoroughfare in other northern and northwest suburbs of Chicago. is situated 2 miles northwest of Foster station.

Foster station

Latitude
42.0543° or 42° 3′ 16″ north
Longitude
-87.68367° or 87° 41′ 1″ west
Operator
Chicago Transit Authority
Network
Chicago Transit Authority
Open location code
86JJ3838+PG
Open­Street­Map ID
node 3882686491
Open­Street­Map feature
public_transport=­station
Open­Street­Map feature
railway=­station
Open­Street­Map attribute
wheelchair=­no
Wiki­data ID
Q384659
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In Other Languages

From Chinese to Urdu—“Foster station” goes by many names.
  • Chinese: “弗斯特站”
  • Chinese: “福斯特站”
  • Dutch: “Foster”
  • French: “Foster”
  • Russian: “Фостер”
  • Spanish: “Foster”
  • Ukrainian: “Фостер”
  • Urdu: “فوسٹر اسٹیشن”

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