River Forest station

River Forest is a Metra commuter railroad station in River Forest, a western suburb of Chicago, on the Union Pacific/West Line. Trains go east to Ogilvie Transportation Center in Chicago and as far west as Elburn, Illinois. Travel time to Ogilvie is 20 to 24 minutes. As of 2018, River Forest is the 107th busiest of the 236 non-downtown stations in the Metra system, with an average of 448 weekday boardings.[1]

River Forest
Location8001 W. Central Street
River Forest, IL 60305
Coordinates41.8870°N 87.8249°W / 41.8870; -87.8249
Owned byUnion Pacific
Platforms1 side platform, 1 island platform
Tracks3
ConnectionsPace (transit)
Other information
Fare zoneB
History
Opened1915
Traffic
Passengers (2018)448 (average weekday)[1]  2.3%
Rank107 out of 236[1]
Services
Preceding station Metra Following station
Maywood
toward Elburn
 Union Pacific / West Oak Park
toward Ogilvie
Former services
Preceding station Chicago and North Western Railway Following station
Bellwood
toward Omaha
 Main Line Oak Park
toward Chicago
Maywood
toward Geneva
 Galena Division Lathrop Avenue
toward Chicago

The station is at Central Avenue and Thatcher Avenue. The surrounding neighborhood is mostly characterized by single-family homes, baseball fields and tennis courts. Pace suburban buses stop one block to the north on Lake Street. To the east is an overpass that carries the Canadian National Railway's Waukesha Subdivision into Forest Park where the line rechristens itself to the CSX Altenheim Subdivision (B&OCT).

The station building was originally built in 1915 by the Chicago and North Western Railway and is also the River Forest Park District headquarters.

The station is to undergo renovations in 2011. The platform will be rebuilt along with the stairways.[2]

Bus connections

Pace

  • 309 Lake Street
  • 313 St. Charles Road

References
  1. "Commuter Rail System Station Boarding/Alighting Count: Summary Results Fall 2018" (PDF). metrarail.com. April 2019. Archived from the original (PDF) on 26 July 2019.
  2. Richard Wronski (December 7, 2009). "Metra on track to rehab and rebuild dozens of stations". Chicago Tribune.


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