Every turnstile entry at every L station since 2001 lives in a public city dataset. This page turns it personal: pick your stop — current, former, or prospective — and see its whole quarter-century record, drawn on the spot. Average weekday entries, year by year, with its peak, its pandemic floor, and where it stands now.
See the whole system breathe: The Living L draws every line and station from the city’s coordinates, trains in motion, stations sized by real ridership.
How to read it honestly
These are station entries on weekdays, averaged per year — transfers inside the system aren’t counted, and 2026 covers January through May only (shown as an open dot). Gaps in a line are closures: Lawrence and Berwyn closed outright from 2021 until July 2025 for the Red-Purple Modernization while Bryn Mawr and Argyle ran on temporary platforms, the Forest Park branch has been through a phased rebuild, and State/Lake closed this January for a three-year reconstruction — a low recent number can mean construction, not abandonment. Context for the citywide pattern lives in our 25-year analysis and the station-level recovery ranking.
Source & method
Data: CTA Ridership — L Station Entries, Daily Totals (City of Chicago Data Portal), weekday records averaged by station and year, retrieved July 17, 2026. The complete dataset behind this page is embedded in it — nothing is fetched from anywhere else, and the exact computation (weekday records, averaged by station and year) is stated here so anyone can reproduce it from the linked dataset. We refresh this page as the dataset grows; the retrieval date above tells you what it reflects. Spot something off? Corrections come first.