Chicago and Evanston Railroad

Chicago and Evanston Railroad
Gauntlet track at Wilson station; both Chicago "L" trains and freight trains ran along this track (1968).
Overview
Status	Abandoned; partially ceded to the CTA and the CTM
Owner	Milwaukee Road (later SOO)
Locale	Chicago–Wilmette, Illinois
Termini	Chicago Union Station Llewellyn Park
Stations	22 (pre-1908)
Service
Type	Commuter rail (pre-1917) Freight rail
History
Opened	May 1, 1885 (1885-05-01)
Commuter rail truncated	May 16, 1908
Commuter rail closed	June 1917
Closed	see § Abandonment
Technical
Line length	13.59 mi (21.87 km)[1]
Route map (pre-1908) Legend C&ME Llewellyn Park Wilmette Evanston North Shore Channel Central Noyes C&NW to Milwaukee Evanston Evanston Dempster Street Dempster Main Street South Evanston Calvary C&NW to Chicago Evanston Chicago Birchwood Rogers Park North Edgewater Edgewater Argyle Park Sheridan Park Wilson Buena Park Buena Verona Northwestern "L" to Loop Addison Northwestern "L" Ravenswood branch Belmont Lincoln Fullerton North Ave. C&NW Wisconsin Milwaukee Larrabee Chicago River C&NW Wells Street Station CM&StP C&OP Union Station This diagram: view talk edit

The Chicago and Evanston Railroad (C&E), later the Evanston Division of Milwaukee Road, was a rail line in Chicago, Evanston, and Wilmette, Illinois. The northern half of the line became part of the North Side main line and the Evanston branch on the Chicago "L".