Kankakee (Amtrak station)

Kankakee
Station statistics
Address	199 South East Avenue Kankakee, IL 60901
Lines	City of New Orleans   Illini and Saluki
Connections	River Valley Metro
Platforms	1 side platform
Tracks	1
Other information
Opened	1898
Code	KKI
Traffic
Passengers (2012)	22,110  12%
Services
Preceding station   Amtrak   Following station Champaign–Urbana toward New Orleans City of New Orleans Homewood toward Chicago Gilman toward Carbondale Illini and Saluki     Former services     Illinois Central Railroad Chebanse toward New Orleans Main Line Bradley toward Chicago Central Station Gilman toward St. Louis St. Louis – Chicago Harvey toward Chicago Central Station
Illinois Central Railroad Depot
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
Location:	Kankakee, Illinois, USA
Coordinates:	41°7′9.48″N 87°51′56.16″W
Built:	1898
NRHP Reference#:	00000409
Added to NRHP:	April 28, 2000

The Kankakee Amtrak station is a train station in Kankakee, Illinois, United States served by Amtrak, the national railroad passenger system. The station was built in 1898 as an Illinois Central Railroad depot, and has been on the National Register of Historic Places since the year 2000. By the late 1980s, the depot had fallen into disrepair. The city purchased the building from the Illinois Central in 1990 and finished a full restoration eight years later. The $1 million project was funded with $750,000 in city funds and private donations.

The northern end of the station is home of the Kankakee Railroad Museum. The station is a flag stop for the City of New Orleans. In Steve Goodman's song (popularized by Arlo Guthrie), which shares its name with this line, the train departs the Kankakee Station.

Bus Connections

River Valley Metro: - Routes 1, 7, & 8

External links

Media related to Kankakee (Amtrak station) at Wikimedia Commons

• Amtrak – Stations – Kankakee, IL
• Kankakee Amtrak Station (USA Rail Guide -- Train Web)
• Kankakee (KKI)--Great American Stations (Amtrak)