Service
The line entered operation on March 28, 1925, but did not encourage much development before the Great Depression and World War II put a halt to building activity for nearly 20 years. The Niles Center service remained unprofitable in 1947 when the privately owned Chicago Rapid Transit Company was subsumed into the public Chicago Transit Authority, and on March 27, 1948, rapid transit service was terminated and replaced with the #97 Skokie bus. All rapid transit stations along the line were closed, except for Dempster where North Shore Line service continued until the company went out of business in 1963.
On Monday, April 20, 1964, the Chicago Transit Authority reinstated service on the Niles Center Branch as a nonstop shuttle between Howard and Dempster, dubbed the Skokie Swift. No station was located at Oakton, even though it is only one block from Skokie's central business district.
Read more about this topic: Oakton-Skokie (CTA Station)
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