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Grand Central Station was a passenger railroad terminal in downtown Chicago, Illinois, from 1890 to 1969. It was located at 201 West Harrison Street on a block bounded by Harrison, Wells and Polk Streets and the Chicago River in the southwestern portion of the Chicago Loop .
The Chicago "L" is a rapid transit system that serves the city of Chicago and seven of its surrounding suburbs. The system is operated by the Chicago Transit Authority (CTA). On an average weekday, 759,866 passengers ride the "L", [ 1 ] making it the second-busiest rapid transit system in the United States, behind the New York City Subway .
The rear of Central Station in February 1971, showing the large Illinois Central sign. By May 1, 1971, the startup date of Amtrak, Central was used only by trains of the Illinois Central Railroad (including the City of Miami, City of New Orleans and Panama Limited on the line south from Chicago, and the Hawkeye on the line to the west) and the Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago and St. Louis ...
Chicago and Grand Trunk Railway: GTW 1885–1897 1880–1885 Chicago and Atlantic Railway: C&E 1885–1890 1880–1885 Cincinnati, Indianapolis, St. Louis and Chicago Railway: CCC&StL 1880–1889 Wabash, St. Louis and Pacific Railway: Wabash 1885–1887 1880–1885 Chicago and Eastern Illinois Railroad: L&N 1904–1913 1885–1904, 1913–1969 ...
The station is the fourth-busiest rail station in the United States, after Pennsylvania Station, Grand Central Terminal, and Jamaica station in New York City, [3] and the busiest outside of the Northeast Corridor. It handles about 140,000 passengers on an average weekday (including 10,000 Amtrak passengers). [4]
Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul Railway: Chicago and Grand Trunk Railway: CN: 1880 1900 Chicago Lake County Railway: Chicago and Great Eastern Railway: PRR: 1863 1868 Columbus, Chicago and Indiana Central Railway: Chicago Great Western Railroad: CGW CGW 1909 1941 Chicago Great Western Railway: Chicago and Great Western Railroad: B&O: 1873 1890
30th Street Station in Philadelphia Omaha station in Omaha, Nebraska, designed as part of the Amtrak Standard Stations Program This is a list of train stations and Amtrak Thruway stops used by Amtrak (the National Railroad Passenger Corporation in the United States). This list is in alphabetical order by station or stop name, which mostly corresponds to the city in which it is located. If an ...
The Baltimore and Ohio Chicago Terminal Railroad (reporting mark BOCT) is a terminal railroad in the Chicago area, formerly giving various other companies access to (Chicago's) Grand Central Station. It also served to connect those railroads for freight transfers, and is now controlled by CSX Corporation , [ 1 ] the successor to the Baltimore ...