University station (CTA)

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{{Infobox station/Header CTA|name=University|grid=1200E 6300S|size=.9|color=B}}

| image = 19920628 21 CTA South Side L 63rd & University.jpg

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| image_caption = University station in June 1992

| address = 1200 East 63rd Street
Chicago, Illinois 60637

| coordinates ={{coord|41.78052|-87.59622|type:railwaystation_region:US-IL|display=inline, title}}

| type=Former Chicago 'L' rapid transit station

| line = Jackson Park Branch

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| structure = Elevated

| platform = 2 side platforms

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| tracks = 2 tracks

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| opened = {{Start date and age|1893|04|23}}

| closed = {{End date and age|1994|01|09}}

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| owned = Chicago Transit Authority

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| former = Lexington Avenue

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| other_services_header=Former services

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{{Adjacent stations|system=CTA|note-row1=Closed as part of the Green Line (from 1993)

|line3=Jackson Park|left3=Cottage Grove|right3=Dorchester|note-right3=Closed 1973

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University was a station on the Chicago Transit Authority's Green Line; The station was located at 1200 East 63rd Street in the Woodlawn neighborhood of Chicago. University opened on April 23, 1893.{{Cite news |date=April 23, 1893 |title=Run Trains to Madison Avenue |work=Chicago Daily Tribune |page=2}} From December 12, 1982,{{Cite news |last=Dold |first=R. Bruce |date=December 13, 1982 |title=3 Jackson 'L' stations open again |url=http://www.chicago-l.org/articles/bridge2.html |work=Chicago Tribune |via=Chicago-L.org |access-date=June 25, 2013 |archive-date=September 9, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240909102829/https://www.chicago-l.org/articles/bridge2.html |url-status=live }} until January 9, 1994, University served as the terminal of the Jackson Park Branch. The station closed on January 9, 1994, when the entire Green Line closed for a renovation project. University did not reopen with the rest of the Green Line on May 12, 1996. University was scheduled to be replaced by a new terminal at Dorchester. Instead the line was cut back to its current terminal at Cottage Grove.{{Cite web |last=Garfield |first=Graham |title=University |url=http://chicago-l.org/stations/university.html |access-date=April 7, 2010 |website=Chicago-L.org |archive-date=June 13, 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100613100329/http://chicago-l.org/stations/university.html |url-status=live }} The University station was demolished in September 1997, when the City of Chicago demolished the rest of the Jackson Park branch east of Cottage Grove.