Kankakee (Amtrak station)

Kankakee
Station statistics
Address 199 South East Avenue
Kankakee, IL 60901
Lines
  City of New Orleans
  Illini and Saluki
Connections River Valley Metro
Platforms 1 side platform
Tracks 1
Other information
Opened 1898
Code KKI
Traffic
Passengers (FY2010) 17,519[1]  17% (Amtrak)
Services
Preceding station   Amtrak   Following station
City of New Orleans
toward Chicago
toward Carbondale
 Illini and Saluki
    Former services    
Illinois Central Railroad
Chebanse
 Main Line
Bradley
toward St. Louis
 St. Louis – Chicago
Illinois Central Railroad Depot
Location: Kankakee, Illinois, USA
Built: 1898
NRHP Reference#:
  1. 00000409
Added to NRHP: April 28, 2000

The Kankakee Amtrak station is a train station in Kankakee, Illinois, United States served by Amtrak, the national railroad passenger system. The station was built in 1898 as an Illinois Central Railroad depot, and has been on the National Register of Historic Places since the year 2000.[2] The northern end of the station is also the home of the Kankakee Railroad Museum.[3] The station is a flag stop for the City of New Orleans. In Steve Goodman's song (popularized by Arlo Guthrie), which shares its name with this line, the train departs the Kankakee Station.

Bus Connections

River Valley Metro: - Routes 1, 7, & 8

References

  1. ^ "Amtrak Fact Sheet, FY2010, State of Illinois" (PDF). Amtrak. November 2010. http://www.amtrak.com/pdf/factsheets/ILLINOIS10.pdf. Retrieved 2011-01-06. 
  2. ^ Kankakee County Listings at the National Register of Historic Places
  3. ^ "Welcome". Kankakee Railroad Museum. 2011. http://www.kankakeerrmuseum.com/. Retrieved 29 May 2011. 

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