It is also close to the Illinois Institute of Technology and VanderCook College of Music, though 35th–Bronzeville–IIT (Green Line) is closer to some parts of that campus.

At both entrances, a fare turnstile is located at street level and passengers must take stairs, an escalator, or the elevator to the platform.

The final cost of the line was $38 million; the Chicago Tribune noted that it was constructed "in virtually record time".

[6][8] On January 29, 1979, the CTA closed 14 stations during rush-hour service, including Sox–35th, due to equipment shortages caused by the Chicago Blizzard of 1979.

[9] The remaining stations reopened later in the week after the Urban Mass Transportation Administration warned the CTA that the closings may have been a civil rights violation.

The renovations to Sox–35th cost over $13 million and concluded in time for the 2003 Major League Baseball All-Star Game at U.S. Cellular Field.