South Side Elevated

South Side Elevated
The Green Line passes over the McCormick Tribune Campus Center
Overview
Status	Operational
Locale	Chicago, Illinois, United States
Termini	Roosevelt Garfield
Stations	8
Service
Type	Rapid transit
System	Chicago "L"
Services	Green
Operator(s)	Chicago Transit Authority (1947–present) Chicago Rapid Transit Company (1924–1947) South Side Elevated Railroad (1892–1924)
Rolling stock	5000-series
Daily ridership	8,119 (average weekday 2019)
History
Opened	June 6, 1892
Technical
Line length	6.5 mi (10.5 km)
Character	Elevated
Track gauge	4 ft 8+1⁄2 in (1,435 mm) standard gauge
Electrification	Third rail, 600 V DC
Route map Legend Loop Congress | Congress/ Wabash Harrison Curve Realigned in 2003 State Street subway to North Side Main Line Roosevelt 13th Street incline State Street subway to Dan Ryan branch St. Charles Air Line 17th Junction to Midway branch and Dan Ryan branch 18th Street Cermak–McCormick Place 26th Street 29th Street 31st Street MTCC tube 33rd Street 35th–Bronzeville–IIT Pershing Chicago Junction Railway Stock Yards branch to Union Stock Yards Indiana Kenwood branch to 42nd Place 43rd 47th 51st Garfield 58th 59th Junction Englewood branch to Ashland/63rd Jackson Park branch to Cottage Grove

The South Side Elevated is a branch of the Chicago "L" system in Chicago, Illinois that is served by the Green Line. It has on average 12,509 passengers, counting branch divisions, boarding each weekday as of February 2013, according to the Chicago Transit Authority.^[1] The branch is 6.5 miles (10.5 km)^[2] long with a total of 8 stations, and runs from the Near South Side to the Washington Park neighborhood of Chicago.