Main station (CTA)

{{Short description|Chicago "L" station}}

{{About|the Purple Line station|the former Yellow Line station|Main station (CTA Niles Center Line)}}

{{Use American English|date=February 2025}}

{{Use mdy dates|date=February 2025}}

{{Infobox station

| custom_header = {{Infobox station/Header CTA|name=Main|line1=Purple|grid=900N 732W|size=1}}

| image = Main Station 20180806 (079).jpg

| style = CTA

| address = 836 Chicago Avenue
Evanston, Illinois 60202

| coordinates = {{coord|42.03333|-87.67925|type:railwaystation_region:US-IL|display=inline, title}}

| line = Evanston Branch

| other = {{Rail-interchange|chicago|metra}} {{rint|chicago|upn}} at Evanston Main Street
CTA and Pace buses

| platform = 2 side platforms

| tracks = 2

| parking =

| bicycle =

| opened = {{Start date and age|1908|05|16}}

| rebuilt = {{Start date and age|1909}}

| accessible =

| code =

| owned = Chicago Transit Authority

| zone =

| structure = Elevated

| former =

| pass_year = 2024

| passengers = 191,570{{cite web |title = Annual Ridership Report – Calendar Year 2024 |publisher = Chicago Transit Authority, Ridership Analysis and Reporting|date = January 22, 2025 |url = https://www.transitchicago.com/assets/1/6/2024_Annual_Ridership_Report.pdf |format = |doi = |accessdate = April 21, 2025 }}

| pass_percent = 6.8

| pass_rank =

| pass_system =

| services = {{Adjacent stations|system=CTA

|line=Purple|left=Dempster|right=South Boulevard|to-right=Howard or Loop purple

}}

| mapframe = yes

| mapframe-custom = {{Infobox mapframe |shape=none |marker=rail-metro |marker-color=#522398 |zoom=15 }}

| other_services_header = Former services

| other_services_collapsible = yes

| other_services = {{Adjacent stations|system2=Milwaukee Road|line2=Evanston|left2=Dempster Street|right2=Calvary

|system3=CTA|line3=Evanston|left3=Dempster|right3=Calvary|note-right3=Closed 1931}}

| map_state = collapsed

| route_map = {{Evanston Main Street station|inline=y}}

}}

File:CTA-Purple-Line-Main-01.jpg

Main is an 'L' station on the CTA's Purple Line at 836 Chicago Avenue in Evanston, Illinois (directional coordinates 900 north, 732 west). It is near the Main Street station of Metra's Union Pacific North Line.

The current station has been in place since 1908, with only little renovation to the station since then, most notably a 90-foot extension of the platform in 1997 so that a motorman in the front car could see all doors stopped at the station (the platform had curved at one end previously). Main is one of the stations on the CTA's 2004-2008 Capital Improvement Plan.