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Glenview, IL
General information
Location	1116 Depot Street Glenview, Illinois United States
Coordinates	42°04′30″N 87°48′21″W / 42.0751°N 87.8057°W / 42.0751; -87.8057
Owned by	Metra
Line(s)	CPKC C&M Subdivision
Platforms	2 side platforms
Tracks	2
Connections	Pace
Construction
Parking	Yes
Accessible	Yes
Other information
Station code	Amtrak: GLN
Fare zone	3 (Metra)
History
Opened	March 1995 (1995-03)
Passengers
FY 2023	47,591 annually (Amtrak)
2018	1,462 (avg. weekday)  1.6% (Metra)
Rank	22 out of 236 (Metra)
Services
Preceding station Amtrak Following station Sturtevanttoward St. Paul Borealis ChicagoTerminus Milwaukeetoward Seattle or Portland Empire Builder Sturtevanttoward Milwaukee Hiawatha Preceding station Metra Following station North Glenviewtoward Fox Lake Milwaukee District North Golftoward Union Station
Former services Preceding station Amtrak Following station Lake Genevatoward Janesville Lake Country Limited ChicagoTerminus Preceding station Milwaukee Road Following station Technytowards Milwaukee Chicago – Milwaukee Golftowards Chicago Technytowards Walworth Suburban ServiceNorth Line
Track layout Legend to Seattle/Portland, St. Paul, and Milwaukee MD-N north to Fox Lake Depot St. Lehigh Ave. Glenview Rd. | MD-N south to Chicago Union Station   ^ Empire Builder, Borealis, Hiawatha
Location

Glenview station is a Metra commuter rail and Amtrak intercity rail station in Glenview, Illinois, United States, north of Chicago. The station is located at 1116 Depot Street, 17.5 miles (28.2 km) from Chicago Union Station, the southern terminus of the lines. The facility opened in March 1995 as a replacement for a since-demolished 1950s era station. The new station, designed by Legat Architects of Waukegan, cost approximately $3 million and was funded from a number of sources, including Metra, the Illinois Department of Transportation, Amtrak and the village of Glenview.

On Metra, the station is located on the Milwaukee District North Line that runs between Chicago Union Station and Fox Lake, Illinois. On Amtrak, the station is located on three lines, the Hiawatha between Chicago and Milwaukee, Wisconsin, the Borealis between Chicago and St. Paul, Minnesota, and the Empire Builder between Chicago, Seattle, Washington, and Portland, Oregon. It also served the short-lived Lake Country Limited which ran between Chicago and Janesville, Wisconsin between April 15, 2000, and September 23, 2001. Frequent, daily service is provided on both the Milwaukee District North Line and the Hiawatha, while the Empire Builder and Borealis provide once-a-day service. Normally, passengers traveling between Glenview and Chicago or Glenview and Milwaukee are not permitted to board or disembark on the Empire Builder at Glenview, due to the availability of the more frequent Metra and Hiawatha trains. However, for much of the spring of 2020, the Empire Builder allowed local travel between Glenview and Milwaukee when the Hiawatha was suspended due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

It is proposed that the Amtrak service would shift one stop north to North Glenview. This move would eliminate lengthy stops which block traffic on Glenview Road. This move would involve reconstruction of the North Glenview station to handle the additional traffic, and depends on commitments from Glenview, the Illinois General Assembly and Metra.

As of 2018, Glenview is the 22nd busiest of Metra's 236 non-downtown stations, with an average of 1,462 weekday boardings.

As of July 15, 2024, all Metra trains on the Milwaukee District North Line make a scheduled stop in Glenview, with a total of 54 trains (27 in each direction) on weekdays, 20 trains (10 in each direction) on Saturdays, and 18 trains (nine in each direction) on Sundays and holidays. Amtrak service to Glenview consists of six Hiawatha trains heading south from Milwaukee with five being daily service and one being Monday through Saturday, and seven heading north to Milwaukee with six being daily service, one being Monday through Friday and one on Friday night, in addition to a single daily service each by the Borealis and the Empire Builder.

Bus connections

Pace

• 210 Lincoln Avenue (weekdays only)
• 422 Linden CTA/Glenview/Northbrook Court (weekdays only)
• 423 Linden CTA/The Glen/Harlem CTA (weekdays only)

References

1. "Amtrak Fact Sheet, Fiscal Year 2023: State of Illinois" (PDF). Amtrak. March 2024. Retrieved June 25, 2024.
2. ^ "Commuter Rail System Station Boarding/Alighting Count: Summary Results Fall 2018" (PDF). Metra. April 2019. Archived from the original (PDF) on May 26, 2019.
3. "Metra Railfan Tips - Milwaukee District/North Line". Archived from the original on 2010-01-29. Retrieved 2022-01-11.
4. Sulski, Jim (April 9, 1995). "New $3 million depot - Glenview station project means starting over". Chicago Tribune.
5. Great American Stations Archived 2013-03-11 at the Wayback Machine. Accessed March 21, 2013.
6. Stiefel, Lynne (November 10, 2009). "Amtrak move to North Glenview station seen". Pioneer Press. Archived from the original on November 14, 2009. Retrieved November 10, 2009.

External links

Media related to Glenview station at Wikimedia Commons

• Glenview, IL – Amtrak
• Glenview, IL – Station history at Great American Stations (Amtrak)
• Metra – Stations – Glenview station
• Glenview Amtrak & Metra Station (USA Rail Guide -- Train Web) Archived 2007-09-07 at the Wayback Machine

• Amtrak stations in Illinois
• Former Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific Railroad stations
• Metra stations in Illinois
• Railway stations in the United States opened in 1995
• Glenview, Illinois
• Railway stations in Cook County, Illinois