About 400′ long, 52′ wide, (20,800 sq. feet approx) and 13′ high, the abandoned Ellis & Lake Park Station is located between 41st Pl and 41st St, and between Lake Park Ave and Ellis Ave, and it is about a third of mile from Lake Michigan. The entrances on both Lake Park and Ellis are sealed. The 42nd Place station, which can be seen on the map below, and which was the closest to Lake Michigan no longer exists. You can see a 1955 photo of the station here.
The Ellis and Lake Park Station
The Chicago Junction Railway Embankment: Ellis Ave to Drexel Blvd and Mural
Cottage Grove Ave Mural, and West to 41st St
North of 41st St to South Langley Ave and 40th St
South Langley Ave and north of 40th St to the Abandoned Vincennes Station
Vincennes Ave to MLK, along south side of E Oakwood Blvd, north of Paul G Stewart Apartments
The South Parkway Train Station on Martin Luther King Drive
The mural on the West side of Martin Luther King Drive
West of MLK Drive to Calumet Ave
West of South Prairie Ave to S Indiana Ave
Indiana Train station
South Michigan Ave to South Wabash Ave
West South Wabash to East South State street
West of South State St to S Dearborn St
References:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenwood_branch
7 CTA train lines you never knew existed
The “L”, The Development of Chicago’s Rapid Transit System 1888-1932 by Bruce G. Moffat, 1995
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