Glencoe (Metra)

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Glencoe
Metra commuter rail

Station statistics

Address

724 Green Bay Road
Glencoe, IL

Lines

Union Pacific/North

Connections

Pace Buses
Chicago Botanical Garden Trolley
Green Bay Bike Trail

Platforms

Tracks

Parking

Yes

Other information

Opened

1891

Accessible

Fare zone

Chicago and Northwestern Railroad Depot

U.S. National Register of Historic Places

Map of the United States

Location:

Glencoe, Illinois, USA

Architect:

Charles Sumner Frost

Architectural style(s):

Romanesque, Other

Added to NRHP:

1991

NRHP Reference#:

#91000569

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.^[1]