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The Illinois Terminal is an intermodal passenger transport center located at 45 East University Avenue in Champaign, Illinois, United States.The facility opened in January 1999 and provides Amtrak train service and various bus services to the Champaign-Urbana area.
Amtrak Thruway motorcoach routes serve the station via Davenport, Galesburg, Peoria, Champaign-Urbana, and Indianapolis. In 2022, 178,018 train passengers boarded or alighted from Amtrak trains at Uptown Station, making it the second busiest Amtrak station in Illinois behind Chicago [ 3 ] This is primarily due to the large number of passengers ...
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 March 5 ...
Illinois Power provided electrical service to much of central and southern Illinois before its acquisition by Ameren. Consolidation into the parent firm occurred in 2004. The Illinois Traction Building in Champaign, Illinois, also known as the Illinois Traction Station and the Illinois Power Building, was built in 1913 and was designed by ...
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 Champaign-Urbana area is served by the Champaign-Urbana Mass Transit District, which has its main interchange at Illinois Terminal where it connects with Amtrak, Burlington Trailways, Greyhound Lines and Peoria Charter Coach Company intercity services. Greyhound Lines also provides service to Decatur.
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]
The Campus was a short lived passenger train operated by Amtrak between Chicago and Champaign, Illinois. The Chicago-Champaign corridor already saw two trains daily: the Shawnee (Chicago-Carbondale) and the Panama Limited (Chicago-New Orleans). The Campus made a round-trip Friday and Sunday, serving the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign.