The CTA website says that the station will be closed for one year, so that should mean it will reopen in November 2008.

I get on the brown line one stop before Damen—at Western, so I pass Damen every morning and evening. So far it looks like the Damen will have a slightly different design than the other renovated brown line stops. The fence/railing won’t have that zoo/jail grid used at all the other stops. Instead, they are incorporating the nice vertical bars with flower motifs that were used at the old station. I should post a photo—maybe i’ll shoot one soon.