It is an at-grade station with a single island platform, located in Chicago's Lincoln Square neighborhood.

Rockwell is a surface level station with a single entrance/exit situated at 4648 North Rockwell Street between Leland Avenue and Eastwood Avenue in the Lincoln Square neighborhood of Chicago.

[2] The area surrounding the station consists of mostly residential single family homes or two-flats, with a small neighborhood shopping district flanking the station entrance on Rockwell Street.

[3] Rockwell opened December 14, 1907 as part of Northwestern Elevated Railroad's Ravenswood branch.

As part of the CTA's Brown Line Capacity Expansion Project, the station closed on February 20, 2006,[5] demolished and rebuilt.