CTA Damen Substation

CTA Damen Substation is an electrical substation in Chicago, Cook, Illinois which is located on West North Avenue. CTA Damen Substation is situated nearby to the hotel building The Robey, as well as near the metro station Damen station.

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Damen station and Wicker Park.

Damen station

Metro station

Photo: Nico Brussels, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Damen is a rapid transit station on the Chicago "L", serving the O'Hare branch of the Blue Line. Opened on May 6, 1895, as Robey, it is the oldest station on the Blue Line and one of the few surviving stations originally built for the Metropolitan West Side Elevated Railroad.

Wicker Park

Park

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Wicker Park is a 4.03-acre public urban park in the Wicker Park neighborhood of the West Town community and West Side district, in Chicago, Illinois. It is named after Charles G. Wicker and Joel H. Wicker.

The Robey

Hotel building

Photo: Zagalejo, CC BY-SA 3.0.

The Robey is a 12-story Art Deco hotel at the corner of North Avenue and Milwaukee Avenue in Wicker Park, Chicago. It was designed by Perkins, Chatten & Hammond and built between 1928 and 1929.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Wicker Park and Bucktown.

Wicker Park

Photo: Victorgrigas, Public domain.

Wicker Park is the vanguard of music, nightlife, and fashion in Chicago. This article also includes the sly, enjoyable Ukrainian Village, immediately south, and pieces of the greater West Town area.

Bucktown

Neighborhood

Photo: Eric Fischer, CC BY 2.0.

Bucktown is a neighborhood.

West Town

Suburb

Photo: Adam63, CC BY-SA 3.0.

West Town is one of the 77 community areas of Chicago in Illinois, United States, located on the northwest of the Loop. Much of this area was historically part of Polish Downtown, along Western Avenue, which was then the city's western boundary.

CTA Damen Substation

Type: Electrical substation
Address: 2023 West North Avenue, Chicago, IL 60622
Category: industry
Location: Chicago, Cook, Chicagoland, Illinois, Midwest, United States, North America
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Latitude

41.91012° or 41° 54′ 36″ north

Longitude

-87.6783° or 87° 40′ 42″ west

Operator

Chicago Transit Authority

Open location code

86HJW86C+2M

OpenStreetMap ID

way 1508615950

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Notable Places Nearby

Highlights include Bucktown Athletic Club and Flat Iron Building.

Nearby Places

Explore places such as Damen and Estelle’s.

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