River Forest station

River Forest is a Metra commuter railroad station in River Forest, a western suburb of Chicago, on the Union Pacific/West Line. Trains go east to Ogilvie Transportation Center in Chicago and as far west as Elburn, Illinois. Travel time to Ogilvie is 20 to 24 minutes. As of 2018, River Forest is the 107th busiest of the 236 non-downtown stations in the Metra system, with an average of 448 weekday boardings.[1]

River Forest
River Forest, Illinois Metra Station
Location	8001 W. Central Street River Forest, IL 60305
Coordinates	41.8870°N 87.8249°W / 41.8870; -87.8249
Owned by	Union Pacific
Platforms	1 side platform, 1 island platform
Tracks	3
Connections	Pace (transit)
Other information
Fare zone	B
History
Opened	1915
Passengers
2018	448 (average weekday)[1]  2.3%
Rank	107 out of 236[1]
Services
Preceding station Metra Following station Maywood toward Elburn Union Pacific / West Oak Park toward Ogilvie
Former services Preceding station Chicago and North Western Railway Following station Bellwood toward Omaha Main Line Oak Park toward Chicago Maywood toward Geneva Galena Division Lathrop Avenue toward Chicago

The station is at Central Avenue and Thatcher Avenue. The surrounding neighborhood is mostly characterized by single-family homes, baseball fields and tennis courts. Pace suburban buses stop one block to the north on Lake Street. To the east is an overpass that carries the Canadian National Railway's Waukesha Subdivision into Forest Park where the line rechristens itself to the CSX Altenheim Subdivision (B&OCT).

The station building was originally built in 1915 by the Chicago and North Western Railway and is also the River Forest Park District headquarters.

The station is to undergo renovations in 2011. The platform will be rebuilt along with the stairways.[2]