Union Station
- Architect
- Graham, Anderson, Probst & White
- Year
- 1913
- Style
- Beaux-Arts
- City
- Chicago, IL
Chicago Union Station opened in 1925 at 210 S. Canal Street, designed by Graham, Anderson, Probst & White to replace an 1881 union station on the same site. It remains Amtrak's flagship Midwest hub, the terminus for eight long-distance and eight regional routes plus six Metra commuter lines, handling about 140,000 passengers on an average weekday. The station's tracks and platforms cover roughly nine and a half city blocks, largely underground beneath streets and skyscrapers built using some of the earliest railway air rights.
the building
The Great Hall. The station's exterior is faced in Bedford limestone, while the interior Great Hall is lined with massive Corinthian columns and marble floors.
the style
Union Station wears a Beaux-Arts face in Bedford limestone, the grand classical idiom favored for early-20th-century civic monuments and put to work here for a big-city rail terminal.
More on Beaux-Artssignificance
Union Station is the fourth-busiest rail station in the United States, behind only Penn Station, Grand Central Terminal, and Jamaica Station in New York, and the busiest station outside the Northeast Corridor. It was designated a Chicago Landmark on May 1, 2002.
nearby
- Old Chicago Main Post Office Building
- Old St. Patrick's Church
- Willis Tower
- 300 West Adams Street Office Building
- Gage Group Buildings
- Brooks Building