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Chicago Union Station is an intercity and commuter rail terminal located in the West Loop neighborhood of the Near West Side of Chicago. Amtrak 's flagship station in the Midwest, Union Station is the terminus of eight national long-distance routes and eight regional corridor routes. Six Metra commuter lines also terminate here.
Union Park is a municipal park in Chicago, Illinois, comprising 13.46 acres (5.45 ha). [1] Located in the Near West Side, the park is just south of Ashland/Lake station on the Green and Pink lines of the Chicago 'L', bordered by North Ashland Avenue on the west, West Lake Street on the north, the diagonal North Ogden Avenue along most of the ...
The Richard B. Ogilvie Transportation Center ( / ˈoʊɡəlviː / ), on the site of the former Chicago and North Western Terminal, is a commuter rail terminal in downtown Chicago, Illinois. For the last century, this site has served as the primary terminal for the Chicago and North Western Railway and its successors Union Pacific and Metra.
BMO Tower. / 41.87715°N 87.64048°W / 41.87715; -87.64048. The BMO Tower, also known as 320 South Canal, [1] is a 51-story, 727 feet (222 m) skyscraper in the West Loop neighborhood of Chicago, Illinois, and sits directly south of the Union Station rail terminal. [2] When completed, it became the 24th-tallest building in Chicago, and ...
In 2019, Union Station served 3.3 million Amtrak riders and 32.6 million Metra passengers, according to Amtrak’s data, though ridership on both services has dropped since then, with Metra ...
The Union Stock Yard & Transit Co., or The Yards, was the meatpacking district in Chicago for more than a century, starting in 1865. The district was operated by a group of railroad companies that acquired marshland and turned it into a centralized processing area. By the 1890s, the railroad capital behind the Union Stockyards was Vanderbilt ...
Chicago Pedway. Coordinates: 41°53′03.2″N 87°37′28.7″W. OpenStreetMap map of the Pedway. Sign of the Chicago Pedway. An underground Pedway tunnel. Inside a Pedway bridge between the Ogilvie Transportation Center and 2 North Riverside Plaza. The Chicago Pedway is a network of tunnels, ground-level concourses and bridges in Chicago ...
The South Shore Line, an independent commuter/interurban line operates out of Millennium Station. Most of the terminals that were in the downtown area were called the "Chicago Loop". Ogilvie Station and Union Station were west of the Chicago River and the Loop; Wells Station was north of the river and the Loop.