Des Plaines station

Des Plaines

Location

1501 Miner Street
Des Plaines, Illinois 60016

Coordinates

42°02′28″N 87°53′12″W / 42.0410°N 87.8866°WCoordinates: 42°02′28″N 87°53′12″W / 42.0410°N 87.8866°W

Owned by

City of Des Plaines

Line(s)

Union Pacific Northwest

Platforms

1 side platform
1 island platform

Tracks

Connections

Pace Buses

Construction

Parking

Yes

Disabled access

Yes

Other information

Fare zone

History

Opened

1915

Rebuilt

1979

Traffic

Passengers (2014)

1,221 (avg. weekday)^[1]

Rank

34 out of 236^[2]

Services

Preceding station		Metra		Following station
Cumberland toward Harvard or McHenry		Union Pacific Northwest		Dee Road toward Ogilvie

Des Plaines is one of two commuter railroad stations on Metra's Union Pacific/Northwest line in the City of Des Plaines, Illinois. The station is officially located at 1501 Miner Street (US 14), and lies 16.7 miles (26.9 km) from the Ogilvie Transportation Center in Chicago.^[3] In Metra's zone-based fare system, Des Plaines is in zone D.

Parking is mostly available along the streets on either side of the tracks. Primarily this includes Miner Street between southeast of Perry Street and west of Des Plaines River Road. Other parking areas exist along Ellinwood Street between Pearson Street and Des Plaines River Road east of the Des Plaines Public Library, a lot on Webford Avenue off of Graceland Avenue (Southbound US 12-45), and on Prairie Avenue east of Pearson Street.

One train running outbound from Chicago each weekday terminates at Des Plaines.^[4]

Pace Bus connections

208: Golf Road.
209: Busse Highway.
230: South Des Plaines.
234: Wheeling - Des Plaines.
250: Dempster Street.

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