Union Station - Chicago, Illinois, United States
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- ... While in Chicago we met up with Jason briefly at a Starbucks right outside of Union Station ...
- ... We left from Union Station on the Amtrack which of course was late and got into Bloomington way behind schedule ...
- ... Denny and Mary-Ann, or Mak, to her mates picked us from Union Station in Chicago and we had three brilliant days with them, especially enjoying Denny's Robert Deniro Chicago accent The train from ...
- ... Tried heading to union station in the hope of dropping my bag off there ...
- ... Amazingly enough boarding the Southwest Chief was our first encounter with Amtrak stupidity and it happened at Chicago Union Station, a place that is normally well run ...
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- The C**** outside Chicago Union Station by Vjlarson from a blog titled And then there's Union Station
- A corner of the lounge at Union Station by Vjlarson from a blog titled And then there's Union Station
- The old Union Station building by Vjlarson from a blog titled And then there's Union Station
- Union Station Great Hall by Wareameye from a blog titled The Adventure Begins
- Union Station in Chicago by Travelin_rpcvs from a blog titled The Windy City
- Union Station Statue by Wareameye from a blog titled The Adventure Begins
- Union Station Layover by Woodsideamerica from a blog titled The Southwest Chief
- Union Station Chicago by Bekandjesse from a blog titled Blown away by the windy city
- Chicago Union Station by Lib001 from a blog titled Boarded the California Zephyr
- Union Station by Woodsideamerica from a blog titled The Southwest Chief
- Union Station by Mimiama from a blog titled Veterne mesto krstneho otca
- Union Station by Adamz from a blog titled Overnight bus to get back for flight to Alaska
- Union Station by C.i.222 from a blog titled Another trip to Chicago to enjoy friends & museums
- Union station by Kjerstan from a blog titled Chicago again...
Chicago: Union Station
Union Station is a major railroad station that opened in 1925 in Chicago, replacing an earlier station built in 1881. It is the only remaining intercity rail terminal in Chicago, and is the city's primary terminal for commuter trains. The station stands on the west side of the Chicago River between West Adams Street and West Jackson Boulevard, just outside the Chicago Loop. Including approach and storage tracks, it covers about nine and a half city blocks — mostly underground, buried beneath streets and skyscrapers.
Chicago Union Station is the third-busiest rail terminal in the United States, after Grand Central Terminal and Penn Station in New York City. It is Amtrak's overall fourth-busiest station. It handles about 140,000 passengers on an average weekday (130,000 Metra riders and 10,000 Amtrak) and is one of Chicago's most iconic structures, reflecting the city's strong architectural heritage and historic achievements. It has Bedford limestone Beaux-Arts facades, massive Corinthian columns, marble floors, and a Great Hall, all highlighted by brass lamps.
Chicago Union Station was designated as one of America's Great Places in 2012 by the American Planning Association (APA). The program recognized the station as a Great Public Space for promoting social activity and reflecting local culture and history.
The current Union Station is the second by that name built in Chicago, and possibly the third rail station to occupy the site. The need for a single, centralized station was an important political topic in 19th and 20th-century Chicago, as various competing railroads had built a series of terminal stations. The numerous stations and associated railyards and tracks surrounded the city's central business district, the Loop, and threatened its expansion. The various stations also made travel difficult for through-travelers, many of whom had to make inconvenient, long, and unpleasant transfers from one station to another through the Loop.
On December 25, 1858, the Pittsburgh, Fort Wayne and Chicago Railroad opened as far as Van Buren Street in Chicago. It built the first station at what would eventually become today's Union Station on the west bank of the Chicago River.
On April 7, 1874 five railroads agreed to build and share a union station just north of the original Pittsburgh, Fort Wayne, and Chicago Railroad station site at Van Buren Street.
Growth in passenger traffic, as well as a civic push to consolidate numerous railroad terminals, led to a proposal for an enlarged Union Station on the same site. The second Union Station would be built by the Chicago Union Station Company. This was a new company formed by all the railroads that had used the first station, save for the Chicago and Alton, which became a tenant in the new station.
Union Station was hailed as an outstanding achievement in railroad facility planning. The station's ornate Beaux-Arts main waiting room, the Great Hall, is one of the great interior public spaces in the United States. It has vaulted skylight, statuary, and connecting lobbies, staircases, and balconies. Enormous wooden benches were arranged in the room for travelers to wait for connections, and two specially-designed underground taxicab drives were built to protect travelers from the weather. The station featured a large, open concourse along the river, with massive steel arches holding up the roof, and several stairways leading passengers down to the platform.
Places to see in ( Chicago - USA ) Union Station
Places to see in ( Chicago - USA ) Union Station
Chicago Union Station is a major railroad station that opened in 1925 in Chicago, Illinois, replacing an earlier station built in 1881. It is the only remaining intercity rail terminal in Chicago, and is the city's primary terminal for commuter trains. The station stands on the west side of the Chicago River between West Adams Street and West Jackson Boulevard, just outside the Chicago Loop. Including approach and storage tracks, it covers about nine and a half city blocks — mostly underground, buried beneath streets and skyscrapers.
Chicago Union Station is the third-busiest rail terminal in the United States, after Grand Central Terminal and Penn Station in New York City. It is Amtrak's overall fourth-busiest station, and the busiest outside of its Northeast Corridor. It handles about 140,000 passengers on an average weekday (130,000 Metra riders and 10,000 Amtrak) and is one of Chicago’s most iconic structures, reflecting the city’s strong architectural heritage and historic achievements. It has Bedford limestone Beaux-Arts facades, massive Corinthian columns, marble floors, and a Great Hall, all highlighted by brass lamps. In 2011, its lighting system was replaced with more energy-efficient light bulbs and motion sensors, reducing the station’s annual carbon emissions by 4 million tons. Custom steel lighting covers were added to top these safety/light towers, helping them blend in with the overall neoclassical style of the station.
Chicago Union Station was designated as one of America's Great Places in 2012 by the American Planning Association (APA). The program recognized the station as a Great Public Space for promoting social activity and reflecting local culture and history. In celebration of the 2018 Illinois Bicentennial, Union Station was selected as one of the Illinois 200 Great Places by the American Institute of Architects Illinois component (AIA Illinois).
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Union Station, Chicago, Illinois
Union Station, Chicago, Illinois
Amtrak’s most important hub, Chicago Union Station
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1:59-3:52 Sound is muted due to copyright claim for the music played in Chicago Union Station Great Hall.
Visited Chicago Union Station in Illinois (December 29, 2018)
Chicago Union Station was built in 1925 and it is still used as a railroad station. The great hall is so impressive, you must see!
Union Station Chicago Illinois
Chicago Union Station Great Hall
Watch the inside of the Chicago Union Station Great Hall with its 1935 architecture and interior
Chicago Union Station, Sunday, 9:34am
The nation's most beautiful train station, bar none. And that includes Washington, DC, Philadelphia, New York and L.A. And to think Chicago used to have seven downtown train stations: Grand Central, North Western, Dearborn, LaSalle St., Illinois Central 12th St., Illinois Central Randolph St. commuter, and this one.
Union Station's concourse, facing along the Chicago River, was torn down in the late 60's, but the cavernous main building, with its classical waiting room, remains, waiting for the day when high-speed trains flash from Chicago to every large midwestern city.
Entering the Train station Union Station in Chicago, Illinois.
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Chicago Metra 美國芝加哥通勤鐵路
Metra commuter rail Milwaukee District line diesel-electric locomotive and bilevel coache train runs at Western Avenue to Chicago Union Station in the Illinois, United States.
美國芝加哥通勤鐵路密爾沃基線列車將通過平交道。
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A train ride trip downtown to see Union Station and the Gateway Plaza (RiverWalk), October, 2011. Union Station is located on the Chicago River around Adams, Canal and Jackson.
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I bought an 18 segment Amrak Rail Pass Which Took Me Through 29 States in 28 Days. This Series, America's Identity Shows Not Only My Over 8,000 Mile Journey But What I Found Along The Way!
This Episode Takes Us From New Orleans to Memphis through Mississippi then through Kentucky and on through Illinois back to Chicago. Then we head west through Iowa and Nebraska into Colorado and making a stop in Denver. We see Beale Street, Sun Studios, eat at Pigs on Beele, then on to Graceland to see Elvis Presley, then walk over to the Lorraine Motel to see the memorial to Martin Luther King Jr and the National Civil Rights Museum. In Chicago we see the famous Bean and walk along Lake Michigan, and stop off for some Chicago deep dish pizza before heading back to Union Station. There we head to Denver to see the city and go on a hike, the money museum and coors field.
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Riding the Chicago L Train - 6x - Chicago’s Northside to the Downtown Loop – Chicago Illinois
Riding the Chicago L Train Brown Line 6x – Chicago’s North End (Fullerton) to the Downtown Loop – Chicago Illinois
The Chicago 'L ' (sometimes written as L or el, short for elevated)[3] is the rapid transit system serving the city of Chicago and some of its surrounding suburbs, in the U.S. state of Illinois. It is operated by the Chicago Transit Authority (CTA). It is the fourth largest rapid transit system in the United States in terms of total route length (at 102.8 miles (165.4 km) long[1][note 1]), and the third busiest rail mass transit system in the United States after the New York City Subway and the Washington Metro.[4] Chicago's 'L' provides 24-hour service on some portions of its network, being one of only four heavy rail rapid transit systems in the United States (the 'L', New York City Subway, PATH, and Philadelphia's PATCO Speedline) to do so. The oldest sections of the 'L' started operations in 1892, making it the second-oldest rapid transit system in the Americas, after Boston's T.[5] The 'L' has been credited with fostering the growth of Chicago's dense city core that is one of the city's distinguishing features.[6] The 'L' consists of eight rapid transit lines laid out in a spoke-hub distribution paradigm mainly focusing transit towards the Loop. Although the 'L' gained its nickname because large parts of the system are elevated,[7][8] portions of the network are also in subway tunnels, at grade level, or open cut.[1]
In 2013 the 'L' had an average of 726,459 passenger boardings each weekday, 456,993 each Saturday, and 328,553 each Sunday.[2] In a 2005 poll, Chicago Tribune readers voted it one of the seven wonders of Chicago,[9] behind the lakefront and Wrigley Field but ahead of Willis Tower (formerly the Sears Tower), the Water Tower, the University of Chicago, and the Museum of Science and Industry.
The Brown Line (or the Ravenswood Line) of the Chicago L' rapid transit system, is an 11.4-mile (18.3 km) route with 28 stations between Chicago's Albany Park neighborhood and downtown Chicago. It runs completely above ground and is almost entirely grade-separated. It is the third busiest 'L' route, with an average of 101,881 passengers boarding each weekday in 2011.[1]
The Brown Line operates to the Loop weekdays and Saturdays from 4:00 am to 1:30 am and on Sundays from 6:30 am to 12:20 am. The Brown Line Shuttle service, running only between the northern terminus Kimball and Belmont, runs from 4:00 am to 2:25 am on weekdays and Saturdays, and 5:00 am to 12:25 am on Sundays. At Belmont, southbound riders can transfer to the 24-hour Red Line.
Before CTA lines were color-coded in 1993, the Brown Line was known as the Ravenswood Route; specifically, the series of stations from Belmont to Kimball were called the Ravenswood branch. Accordingly, the Kimball-Belmont shuttle service was called the Ravenswood Shuttle.
The Loop (historically Union Loop, or commonly Loop) is the 1.79-mile (2.88 km) long circuit of elevated railroad that forms the hub of the Chicago 'L' rapid transit system in Chicago, Illinois. As of 2012, the branch has served 74,651 passengers every weekday.[1] The Loop is so named because the railroad loops around a rectangle formed by Lake Street (north side), Wabash Avenue (east), Van Buren Street (south), and Wells Street (west). The railroad loop has given its name to Chicago's downtown, which is known as the Loop. Numerous accounts assert that the use of this term predates the elevated railroad, deriving from the multiple cable car turntables, or loops, that terminated in the district, and especially those of two lines that shared a loop, constructed in 1882, bounded by Madison, Wabash, State, and Lake.[2] However, transportation historian Bruce Moffat has concluded that The Loop was not used as a proper noun until after Charles Yerkes' 1895–97 construction of the elevated structure.[3]