

It features an elevator and stairway to the Amtrak underground pedestrian tunnel, allowing commuters to pass between Union Station and the bus staging area without crossing at street level. The bus station opened in 2016, on land formerly used for a surface parking lot. Union Station Transit Center is located adjacent to Union Station's parking garage.

The station is the third union station to occupy the site between West Adams Street and West Jackson Boulevard. The station connects to multiple transit authorities including the Chicago Transit Authority bus and Chicago L lines, Metra, Pace, Greyhound, and more either within the station or within walking distance.Ĭhicago Union Station is named a union station, like many train stations across the United States that were shared by several railroad companies.

It has Bedford limestone Beaux-Arts facades, and an interior with massive Corinthian columns, marble floors, and a Great Hall, highlighted by brass lamps. It handles about 140,000 passengers on an average weekday (including 10,000 Amtrak passengers). 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, and the busiest outside of the Northeast Corridor. The present station opened in 1925, replacing an earlier union station on this site built in 1881. Including approach and storage tracks, it covers about nine and a half city blocks (mostly underground, buried beneath streets and skyscrapers). Union Station is just west of the Chicago River between West Adams Street and West Jackson Boulevard, adjacent to the Chicago Loop. While serving long-distance passenger trains, it is also the downtown terminus for six Metra commuter lines. The station is Amtrak's flagship station in the Midwest. CTA BUS TRACKER SCHEDULE CHICAGO TRAIN CTA BUS TRACKER CTA RedLineĬTA Red Line Train Tracker Chicago transit authority.Chicago Union Station is an intercity and commuter rail terminal located in the West Loop neighborhood of the Near West Side of Chicago.
