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The stations where the last train ends your night

After ten, the thing that ends a cheap night out is not the price and not the walk to the door. It is whether you can get home. 66 of Chicago's 143 L stations run all night, on the Red and Blue lines. At the other 77, there is a last train, and at 2 of them it leaves before midnight.

Read from the CTA's published schedule for a weekday, not from a live train. A schedule is a promise about an ordinary night. The record was fetched 2026-08-29. Any offer on this site that runs late says which of these it is near.

stations with no last train at all
66 of 143
of the rest, last train before midnight
2 of 77
last train before one
73 of 77

Every station with a floor, earliest first

One line per station. The axis runs from 22:00 on the left to 02:00 on the right, and the mark is the last train out, in any direction. A station on more than one line shows the later of its last trains.

Before midnight 2 stations

  1. Dempster-Skokie Yellow 23:15
  2. Oakton-Skokie Yellow 23:17

Midnight to one 71 stations

  1. Main Purple 00:00
  2. South Boulevard Purple 00:00
  3. Dempster Purple 00:01
  4. Davis Purple 00:03
  5. Foster Purple 00:04
  6. Noyes Purple 00:05
  7. Central (Purple) Purple 00:07
  8. Linden Purple 00:09
  9. Washington/Wells Brown / Orange / Purple / Pink 00:21
  10. Quincy Brown / Orange / Purple / Pink 00:22
  11. LaSalle/Van Buren Brown / Orange / Purple / Pink 00:23
  12. Harold Washington Library-State/Van Buren Brown / Orange / Purple / Pink 00:24
  13. Adams/Wabash Brown / Green / Orange / Purple / Pink 00:26
  14. Washington/Wabash Brown / Green / Orange / Purple / Pink 00:27
  15. Cermak-McCormick Place Green 00:28
  16. Polk Pink 00:29
  17. Clinton (Green/Pink) Green / Pink 00:30
  18. 18th Pink 00:31
  19. Merchandise Mart (Brown/Purple) Brown / Purple 00:31
  20. Morgan (Green/Pink) Green / Pink 00:31
  21. Halsted (Orange) Orange 00:32
  22. 35th-Bronzeville-IIT Green 00:33
  23. Ashland (Green/Pink) Green / Pink 00:33
  24. Ashland (Orange) Orange 00:34
  25. Chicago (Brown/Purple) Brown / Purple 00:34
  26. Damen (Green) Green 00:34
  27. Damen (Pink) Pink 00:34
  28. Western (Pink) Pink 00:35
  29. 35th/Archer Orange 00:36
  30. California (Pink) Pink 00:36
  31. Indiana Green 00:36
  32. Sedgwick (Brown/Purple) Brown / Purple 00:36
  33. California (Green) Green 00:37
  34. Halsted (Green) Green 00:37
  35. 43rd Green 00:38
  36. Kedzie (Pink) Pink 00:38
  37. 47th (Green) Green 00:39
  38. Central Park Pink 00:39
  39. Kedzie (Green) Green 00:39
  40. Ashland/63rd Green 00:40
  41. Conservatory-Central Park Drive Green 00:40
  42. Pulaski (Pink) Pink 00:40
  43. 51st Green 00:41
  44. Armitage (Brown/Purple) Brown / Purple 00:41
  45. Western (Orange) Orange 00:41
  46. Kostner Pink 00:42
  47. Pulaski (Green) Green 00:42
  48. Garfield (Green) Green 00:43
  49. Kedzie (Orange) Orange 00:43
  50. Cicero (Pink) Pink 00:45
  51. Diversey (Brown/Purple) Brown / Purple 00:45
  52. Pulaski (Orange) Orange 00:45
  53. Cicero (Green) Green 00:46
  54. Wellington (Brown/Purple) Brown / Purple 00:46
  55. 54th/Cermak Pink 00:47
  56. King Drive Green 00:47
  57. Laramie Green 00:47
  58. Central (Green) Green 00:48
  59. Midway Orange 00:48
  60. Cottage Grove Green 00:49
  61. Austin (Green) Green 00:50
  62. Southport Brown 00:50
  63. Ridgeland Green 00:51
  64. Oak Park (Green) Green 00:52
  65. Paulina Brown 00:52
  66. Addison (Brown) Brown 00:54
  67. Harlem/Lake Green 00:54
  68. Irving Park (Brown) Brown 00:55
  69. Montrose (Brown) Brown 00:56
  70. Damen (Brown) Brown 00:58
  71. Western (Brown) Brown 00:59

After one 4 stations

  1. Rockwell Brown 01:01
  2. Francisco Brown 01:02
  3. Kedzie (Brown) Brown 01:04
  4. Kimball Brown 01:06

The tick at the middle of each line is midnight.

The ones that never close

66 stations, all on the Red and Blue lines. From any of these, a room that runs to four is a room you can leave at four.

  • 47th (Red)
  • 63rd
  • 69th
  • 79th
  • 87th
  • 95th/Dan Ryan
  • Addison (Blue)
  • Addison (Red)
  • Argyle
  • Austin (Blue)
  • Belmont (Blue)
  • Belmont (Red/Brown/Purple)
  • Berwyn
  • Bryn Mawr
  • California (Blue)
  • Cermak-Chinatown
  • Chicago (Blue)
  • Chicago (Red)
  • Cicero (Blue)
  • Clark/Division
  • Clark/Lake
  • Clinton (Blue)
  • Cumberland
  • Damen (Blue)
  • Division
  • Forest Park
  • Fullerton
  • Garfield (Red)
  • Grand (Blue)
  • Grand (Red)
  • Granville
  • Harlem (Blue - Forest Park Branch)
  • Harlem (Blue - O'Hare Branch)
  • Harrison
  • Howard
  • Illinois Medical District
  • Irving Park (Blue)
  • Jackson (Blue)
  • Jackson (Red)
  • Jarvis
  • Jefferson Park Transit Center
  • Kedzie-Homan
  • Lake (Subway)
  • LaSalle
  • Lawrence
  • Logan Square
  • Loyola
  • Monroe (Blue)
  • Monroe (Red)
  • Montrose (Blue)
  • Morse
  • North/Clybourn
  • O'Hare
  • Oak Park (Blue)
  • Pulaski (Blue)
  • Racine
  • Roosevelt
  • Rosemont
  • Sheridan
  • Sox-35th
  • Thorndale
  • UIC-Halsted
  • Washington
  • Western (Blue - Forest Park Branch)
  • Western (Blue - O'Hare Branch)
  • Wilson

Plan a night around this on Tonight, which takes a destination station and says, for every late offer we carry, whether you can still get there.