Editing Green Line (CTA) (section)

===South Side Elevated===
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Leaving the Loop at Tower 12, the tracks continue along Wabash Avenue and follows an "S" curve (which was realigned in 2002) to the west and south now following the alley between Wabash Avenue and State Street to 40th Street. This 3.8 mile section is the oldest part of Chicago's "L" system. On this segment, the Green Line shares tracks with the [[Orange Line (CTA)|Orange Line]] between the Loop and 17th Street. Passengers can transfer between the two lines at [[Roosevelt station (CTA)|Roosevelt/Wabash station]].

The other stations on this section are at {{stn|Cermak–McCormick Place}} and {{stn|35th–Bronzeville–IIT}}, adjacent to the [[Illinois Institute of Technology]] campus and the [[Chicago Police Department]] Headquarters. At 40th Street, the route turns east to Indiana station, then turns south between Calumet and Prairie Avenues to the [[Garfield station (CTA Green Line)|Garfield]] station and continues south to 59th Street where the route splits into two branches—the Englewood (Ashland/63rd) branch and the Jackson Park (East 63rd) branch. Prior to 1994 (and the Green Line's major renovation) the East 63rd branch extended as far east as Stony Island Avenue. It was shortened to University in 1982 and Cottage Grove in 1996.

====Ashland branch====
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The Ashland branch continues south and west following 59th Street, Princeton Avenue and 63rd Street to the Ashland terminal in [[West Englewood, Chicago|West Englewood]]. The yard and inspection shop lie to the south between the old Racine station and the Ashland/63rd terminal. The "L" tracks continues west to a stub end at Hermitage Avenue, a prediction for a future extension of the route westward, however, those plans were canceled in the late 1970s. Prior to 1992, the Englewood branch had two additional stops at Wentworth and Harvard, closed by the CTA for service cuts. Halsted/63rd is the only remaining stop on the {{convert|3.1|mi|km}} route.

The '''Englewood branch''' was permanently renamed the Ashland branch as of March 2013 according to the CTA.

====East 63rd branch====
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The East 63rd branch continues south from the mainline between Calumet and Prairie Avenues, passing the old yard and inspection facilities at 61st Street in [[Washington Park (community area), Chicago|Washington Park]]. South of here, the route curves east over 63rd Street and follows it to the current terminal at Cottage Grove/63rd in [[Woodlawn, Chicago|Woodlawn]]. Prior to 1994, the Jackson Park branch of the Green Line once terminated at [[University station (CTA)|University/63rd]] and before that, at [[Jackson Park station (CTA)|Stony Island/63rd]] from 1893 until 1982. In addition to losing the University/63rd station, the Jackson Park branch also lost the [[61st station|61st Street station]] and the [[58th station|58th Street station]] in 1994.