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Glencoe
Glencoe Metra StationStation statistics Address 724 Green Bay Road
Glencoe, Illinois 60022Coordinates 42°08′08″N 87°45′29″W / 42.1356°N 87.7581°WCoordinates: 42°08′08″N 87°45′29″W / 42.1356°N 87.7581°W Lines Connections Pace Buses
Chicago Botanical Garden Trolley
Green Bay Bike TrailPlatforms 2 side platforms Tracks 2 Parking Yes Other information Opened 1891 Accessible 
Fare zone D Services Preceding station Metra Following station toward KenoshaUnion Pacific/North toward OgilvieChicago and Northwestern Railroad Depot
Location: Glencoe, Illinois, USA Coordinates: 42°08′08″N 87°45′29″W / 42.1356°N 87.7581°WCoordinates: 42°08′08″N 87°45′29″W / 42.1356°N 87.7581°W Area: Less than one acre Built: 1891 Architect: Charles Sumner Frost Architectural style: Romanesque, Richardsonian Romanesque Governing body: Private NRHP Reference#: 91000569[1] Added to NRHP: May 16, 1991 Glencoe Station is a historic communter railroad station along Metra's Union Pacific/North line in Glencoe, Illinois. It is officially located on 724 Green Bay Road, however it also runs parallel to Old Green Bay Road, both of which intersect with Park Avenue.
Like the Braeside Train Station, Glencoe is in close proximity to the Cook County Forest Preserves' Turnbull Woods, William N. Erickson Preserve, and the Chicago Botanic Garden. Unlike Braeside, Glencoe was built in a partial Romanesque-style for the Chicago and North Western Railway by architect Charles Sumner Frost in 1891. The Green Bay Bike Trail, and the local Veterans Memorial Park are also nearby.
Northbound trains go as far north as Kenosha, Wisconsin, and southbound trains go as far as to Chicago's Ogilvie Transportation Center. The station was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1991.[2]
Bus connections
- #213 - Green Bay Road
Other
- Chicago Botanical Garden Trolley
References
- ^ "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. 2009-03-13. http://nrhp.focus.nps.gov/natreg/docs/All_Data.html.
- ^ Cook County Listings at the National Register of Historic Places
External links
- Metra - Glencoe Station
- Chicago Botanical Gardens: Directions
- Station from Park Avenue from Google Maps Street View
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- Metra stations
- National Register of Historic Places in Cook County, Illinois
- Railway stations opened in 1891
- Railway stations on the National Register of Historic Places in Illinois
- Transportation in Cook County, Illinois
- Illinois railway station stubs
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