Indian Hill (Metra)

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Indian Hill is the southernmost of the three commuter railroad stations in Winnetka, Illinois, an affluent suburb north of Chicago. It is served by Metra's Union Pacific/North Line trains, with service to Ogilvie Transportation Center in downtown Chicago. Northbound trains go as far as Kenosha, Wisconsin. In Metra's zone-based fare schedule, Indian Hill is in zone D.

The station is located on Winnetka's southern border, at Green Bay Road and Winnetka Avenue, less than a mile west of Lake Michigan. Outbound trains stop on the west platform, and inbound trains stop on the east platform. Indian Hill lacks a ticket agent office, passengers boarding must buy their tickets on board the train. There are 25 weekday inbound trains, 11 on Saturday, and eight on Sunday. Travel time to Ogilvie ranges from 31 minutes to 39 minutes, depending on the train.

There is an average of 368 weekday boardings at Indian Hill station, as of 2004. (Cary, 2004).

Indian Hill is at the southern end of what is known as "The Big Ditch", which carries the railroad under Winnetka. Before the early 1940s, Winnetka had-at grade crossings, where accidents caused 31 deaths between 1912 and 1937. (Cary, 2004). The village, federal government and railroad authorities funded a five-year project to rebuild the railroad below grade, and this was completed in 1943, after which there were no more level crossings in Winnetka.