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Western Avenue

train station serving Metra BNSF trains in Chicago, Illinois, USA
Place railway_station Q7987600
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Summary

Western Avenue is a railway station[1]. It ranks in the top 0.98% of railway station entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (56 views/month, #182 of 18,574).[2]

Key Facts

  • Located in the administrative territorial entity: Chicago[3]
  • Country: United States[4]
  • Transport network: Metra[5]
  • Connecting line: Chicago Subdivision[6]
  • Adjacent station: Halsted Street[7], Cicero[8]
  • Commons category: Western Avenue station (BNSF Railway)[9]
  • Inception: 1905[10]
  • Coordinate location: 41.8578, -87.6853[11]
  • Connecting service: BNSF Railway Line[12]
  • Date of official opening: 1905[13]
  • Different from: Western Avenue[14]
  • State of use: in use[15]

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  5. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  7. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.

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Edit History

Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 5w ago · IdeasMagnet · 2026-09-07 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Openstreetmap node id → 706918394
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ Openstreetmap node id: 706918394, Adding OSM node id claim from wikidata tag on node/706918394 in United States"
  2. 22w ago · KaleemBot bot · 2026-05-13 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Instance of → railway station
    Onestop id → s-dp3whevx0z-westernavenue
    Imported from → —
    Located in the administrative territorial entity → Chicago
    + 14 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbeditentity-update:0| */ Added [[wikipedia:ur:ویسٹرن ایونیو اسٹیشن (بی این ایس ایف ریلوے)]]"
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