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West Chicago added an extra $25,000 from the city's capital projects fund to alter the modern architectural style to a vintage, 19th-century look. [2] The station officially opened on July 14, 1990. The opening coincided with the city's annual "Railroad Days" celebration, celebrating West Chicago's heritage as a railroad town. [3]
West Chicago is a city in DuPage County, Illinois, United States.The population was 25,614 at the 2020 census.It was formerly named Junction and later Turner Junction, after its founder, John Bice Turner, president of the Galena and Chicago Union Railroad (G&CU) in 1855.
The Chicago and North Western Railway was chartered on June 7, 1859, five days after it purchased the assets of the bankrupt Chicago, St. Paul and Fond du Lac Railroad. On February 15, 1865, it merged with the Galena and Chicago Union Railroad, which had been chartered on January 16, 1836. Since the Galena & Chicago Union started operating in ...
The Union Pacific West Line (UP-W) is a Metra commuter rail line operated by Union Pacific Railroad in Chicago, Illinois and its western suburbs. Metra does not refer to its lines by particular colors, but the timetable accents for the Union Pacific West line are "Kate Shelley Rose" pink, honoring an Iowa woman who saved a Chicago & North Western Railway train from disaster in 1881.
The Illinois Central West Line from present-day Millennium Station to Addison, Illinois, (closed 1931), Pennsylvania Railroad line to Valparaiso, Indiana, (closed 1935), New York Central line from LaSalle Street Station to Elkhart, Indiana, (closed 1964), and four Chicago & North Western lines to St. Charles, Aurora, Freeport, and Kenosha ...
Still exists as a subsidiary of the Union Pacific Railroad: Chicago and Illinois Midland Railway: C&IM, CIM 1906 1996 Illinois and Midland Railroad: Chicago and Illinois River Railroad: GM&O: 1867 1879 Chicago and Alton Railroad: Chicago and Illinois Southern Railroad: IC: 1877 Chicago and Illinois Southern Railroad: IC: 1871 1872 Chicago and ...
Oct. 8—Brunswick hosted a record-breaking Railroad Days festival Sunday as thousands came to the city to ride trains, learn about the city's history and spend a nice, fall day with their families.
St. Louis, Alton and Chicago Railroad: Chicago & Alton 1857–1862 Joliet and Chicago Railroad / Chicago and Mississippi Railroad: St.LA&C 1856–1857 Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad: BN: 1881–1970 1856–1881 1855–1856 Michigan Southern and Northern Indiana Railroad: LS&MS 1866–1869 1855–1866 Chicago, St. Paul and Fond du Lac ...