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Kankakee station is an Amtrak intercity train station in Kankakee, Illinois, United States. The station is a regular stop for the Illini and Saluki, and is a flag stop for the City of New Orleans, served only when passengers have tickets to and from the station. The present station was built by the Illinois Central Railroad in 1897.
At approximately 9:47 p.m. central (local) time on March 15, 1999, Amtrak's City of New Orleans number 59 was operating southbound through Bourbonnais, Illinois, on tracks owned by the Illinois Central Railroad, which folded into the Canadian National Railway in July of that year.
The Illinois Service is funded primarily by the Illinois Department of Transportation (IDOT) and falls under the broader Amtrak Midwest brand. Chicago is a terminus for all three Illinois Service routes, which all have multiple daily round trips: Chicago–Quincy: two round trips daily, the Illinois Zephyr and the Carl Sandburg [1]
Illinois Central EMD E8 #4026, sister locomotive to #4031, leading the City of Miami through Kankakee, Illinois, in 1964. Amtrak #1 (later #59), the City of New Orleans [nb 1] departed Chicago's Central Station at 8:00 AM CT on June 10, 1971. The City of New Orleans was a daytime train between Chicago and New Orleans, Louisiana.
Amtrak brought back the Illini name on November 14, 1971, as a Chicago-Champaign train, operating in conjunction with the Campus. It was named for the Illini, from which the state of Illinois and the Fighting Illini mascot of the University of Illinois Urbana–Champaign get their names. [6] Amtrak discontinued the Campus and Illini on
Kankakee and Illinois River Railroad: NYC: 1869 1870 Plymouth, Kankakee and Pacific Railroad: Kankakee and Indiana Railroad: NYC: 1869 1873 Cincinnati, Lafayette and Chicago Railroad: Kankakee and Seneca Railroad: NYC/ RI: 1881 1933 N/A Kankakee and South Western Railroad: IC: 1880 1902 Illinois Central Railroad: Kankakee and South-Western Coal ...