The 

Lake Street Transfer station was a rapid transit station on the Chicago "L", serving as

a transfer station between its Lake Street Elevated Railroad and the Logan Square branch of
its Metropolitan West Side Elevated Railroad. Located where the Logan Square branch crossed over
the Lake Street Elevated, it was in service from 1913 to 1951, when it was rendered obsolete by the
construction of the Dearborn Street subway.
The transfer station was an amalgamation of two predecessor stations: Wood, on the Lake Street
Elevated, was on Wood Street, one block west of the site of the future transfer, and had been
constructed in 1893; the Metropolitan's Lake station, on the other hand, was on the site of the future
transfer and had been built in 1895. These stations, and their lines, had been constructed by two
different companies; when they and two more companies building what would become the "L"
merged operations in the early 1910s, a condition for the merger was the construction of a transfer
station between the Metropolitan and Lake Street Elevateds at their crossing, which in practice
meant the replacement of Wood station with a new Lake Street one under the Metropolitan. Having
already merged operations, the "L" companies formally united under the Chicago Rapid Transit
Company (CRT) in 1924; the "L" became publicly owned when the Chicago Transit Authority (CTA)
assumed operations in 1947.
Plans for a subway to provide a more direct route from Logan Square to downtown dated to the late
1930s, but the subway was originally intended to supplement the Logan Square branch of the area,
on which the Metropolitan's station lay, rather than replace it. The newly formed CTA, however,
found little reason to continue operation of the old Logan Square elevated. The subway was
completed in 1951, leading to the station's closing, but remnants survived into the 1960s. The site of
the station is near the junction of the Paulina Connector – the descendant of the old Logan Square
trackage – and the Lake Street Elevated, which was used for temporary and non-revenue service
until the Pink Line opened in 2006 and returned it to revenue status.
Lake Street Transfer was double-decked, the Metropolitan's tracks and station located immediately
above the Lake Street's tracks and station. Access to the eastbound Lake Street platform was by a
station house at the street level; passengers would then use the platform to access the
Metropolitan's platforms and Lake Street's westbound platform by additional stairways.