Kenilworth station (Illinois)
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| Location | 400 Richmond Road Kenilworth, Illinois 60043 | ||||||||||||
| Coordinates | 42°05′11″N 87°43′00″W / 42.08644°N 87.71665°W | ||||||||||||
| Platforms | 2 side platforms | ||||||||||||
| Tracks | 2 | ||||||||||||
| Connections |  Pace Buses | ||||||||||||
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| Accessible | Yes | ||||||||||||
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| Fare zone | D | ||||||||||||
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| Opened | 1891 | ||||||||||||
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| 2018 | 501 (average weekday)[1]  0.2% | ||||||||||||
| Rank | 98 out of 236[1] | ||||||||||||
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Kenilworth is a commuter railroad station in Kenilworth, Illinois, a small and affluent village in the North Shore area of Chicago. Metra Union Pacific/North Line trains go south to Ogilvie Transportation Center in Chicago and as far north as Kenosha, Wisconsin. In Metra's zone-based fare schedule, Kenilworth is in zone D. As of 2018, Kenilworth is the 98th busiest of Metra's 236 non-downtown stations, with an average of 501 weekday boardings.[1]
The station is on Kenilworth Avenue between Green Bay Road and Richmond Road. Northbound trains stop on the west platform, and Chicago-bound trains stop on the east platform. Travel time to Ogilvie ranges from 28 minutes on express trains to 38 minutes on local trains. It is also across the street from the Kenilworth Village Hall, which has the Green Bay Bike Trail in the front yard.
The station was built in 1891 by the Chicago and North Western Railway to a design by architect Franklin Burnham of the firm Edbrooke and Burnham.[2]
Bus connections
- 213 Green Bay Road
References
- ^ a b c "Commuter Rail System Station Boarding/Alighting Count: Summary Results Fall 2018" (PDF). Metra. April 2019. Archived from the original (PDF) on 26 July 2019.
{{cite web}}:|archive-date=/|archive-url=timestamp mismatch; 26 May 2019 suggested (help) - ^ Potter, Janet Greenstein (1996). Great American Railroad Stations. New York: John Wiley & Sons, Inc,. p. 300. ISBN 978-0471143895.
External links
Media related to Kenilworth station (Illinois) at Wikimedia Commons- Metra – Stations – Kenilworth
- Station from Kenilworth Avenue from Google Maps Street View
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