California is an abandoned rapid transit station in the East Garfield Park neighborhood of Chicago, Illinois.

[4] The elevated station closed in 1953 as trains on the branch were rerouted to the temporary tracks along Van Buren Street.

The temporary trackage was built to accommodate the construction of the Congress Expressway and a new branch line along the median.

[5] The new California station opened on June 22, 1958, on the newly-built Congress branch.

[6] The station closed on September 2, 1973, as part of a systemwide service reduction.