The station was located at Grand Avenue and Franklin Street in the Near North Side neighborhood of Chicago.

Grand was situated south of Chicago and north of Merchandise Mart.

Grand opened in 1921 to replace the Kinzie station and closed on September 20, 1970, due to low ridership.

[2] By 1928, this route had owl service between 1 and 5 a.m., wherein cars ran once every thirty minutes;[3] during the day, streetcar lines in Chicago typically had intervals of between eight and fifteen minutes per car.

[2] Buses began supplementing streetcar service to serve the Grand stations on the North Side Main Line and on the State Street Subway and relieve streetcar congestion, the service was extended to the entirety of the route on December 4, 1949; buses would replace streetcars altogether on April 1, 1951.