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'''Marshfield''' was a [[rapid transit]] station on the [[Chicago "L"]] in service between 1895 and 1954. Constructed by the [[Metropolitan West Side Elevated Railroad]], it was the westernmost station of [[Metropolitan main line|the Metropolitan's main line]], which then diverged into three branches. Marshfield was also served by the Aurora Elgin and Chicago Railway (AE&C) and its descendant the [[Chicago Aurora and Elgin Railroad]] (CA&E), an [[interurban]], between 1905 and 1953.
The Metropolitan, one of four companies operating the "L", handed its lines over to the [[Chicago Elevated Railways]] (CER) trust in 1911. The companies forming the trust formally merged into the [[Chicago Rapid Transit Company]] (CRT) in 1924, which continued operation of the "L" until it was taken over by the publicly-held [[Chicago Transit Authority]] (CTA) in 1947. The CA&E had resulted from splitting of the AE&C in 1921.
▲Overhauls to the Metropolitan's lines, planned since the 1930s, replaced the Logan Square branch with [[Milwaukee–Dearborn subway|a subway]] to go directly downtown and substitute a rapid transit [[right-of-way (transportation)|right-of-way]] in the median of the Eisenhower for the main line and Garfield Park branch. Construction of these new lines was piecemeal, as was the end of service to Marshfield; Logan Square trains were diverted in 1951, as was Garfield Park and CA&E service in 1953. This left Douglas Park trains as the sole traffic at Marshfield until April 1954, when they too used a temporary right-of-way to go downtown. The Congress Line opened in 1958; the junction that Marshfield had served was maintained between the new line and the Douglas Park branch, but the station prior to this divergence was [[Racine station (CTA Blue Line)|located on Racine Avenue]], significantly to the east of Marshfield Avenue. An entrance to the [[Illinois Medical District station|Medical Center station]] on the new line was located on Paulina Street, a block west of Marshfield Avenue.
==History==
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