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Homewood station is an Amtrak intercity and Metra commuter train station in Homewood, Illinois.It is also the location of the Homewood Railroad Park Museum.. Served by the Metra Electric District, Homewood is 23.5 miles (37.8 km) from that line's northern terminus at Millennium Station. [4]
Illinois Central Railroad Depot: Illinois Central Railroad Depot: August 18, 1999 : Junction of Central Avenue and Ullin Avenue: Ullin: 2: Mound City Civil War Naval Hospital: Mound City Civil War Naval Hospital: October 9, 1974
Thornton is a village in Cook County, Illinois, United States, and a south suburb of Chicago. The population was 2,386 at the 2020 census. [ 4 ] Thornton is home to the Thornton Quarry , one of the largest quarries in the world.
Built for Illinois Central Railroad, the depot serviced both passenger and freight trains. [2] The depot stopped serving passenger trains in 1931 and freight trains in 1943. For a number of decades afterwards, the building was used by multiple parties to store grain. Additionally, the depot has become a focal point of the Badger State Trail. [3]
Thornton Township is one of 29 townships in Cook County, Illinois. As of the 2020 census, its population was 157,865. [1] Incorporated in 1850, it is located immediately south of the city of Chicago. It is the second most populous township in Illinois as of the 2020 census, after Rockford Township (pop. 170,478) in Winnebago County. [1]
The Aurora Transportation Center is a station on Metra's BNSF Line in Aurora, Illinois. The station is 37.1 miles (59.7 km) from Union Station, the east end of the line. [2] In Metra's zone-based fare system, Aurora is in zone 4. As of 2018, Aurora is the 13th busiest of Metra's 236 non-downtown stations, with an average of 1,856 weekday ...
The Dwight Chicago and Alton depot is a former railroad depot in Dwight, Illinois, United States. The historic depot, in used by passengers from 1891 until 1971. It was again used from 1986 until 2016, by Amtrak, for service between Chicago and St. Louis. Passenger service moved from the former depot south to a new station in October 2016.
The passenger railroad reorganized in 1937 as the Illinois Terminal Railroad (ITR) and continued to provide electric-powered interurban, long-distance multiple car passenger train service Peoria/Danville to St. Louis for almost another two decades. United States postal contracts helped provide revenue to make this service viable.