Rogers Park station

Rogers Park is a Metra commuter railroad station in the Rogers Park neighborhood on the north side of Chicago. It is located at 7000 N. Ravenswood Avenue, between W. Greenleaf Avenue and W. Lunt Avenue. In Metra's zone-based fare system, Rogers Park is in zone B. As of 2018, Rogers Park is the 26th busiest of Metra's 236 non-downtown stations, with an average of 1,393 weekday boardings.[1] The neighborhood that surrounds the station is residential, with single-family houses and small apartment buildings, but just a block to the east is Clark Street, a major north-south artery with buses and shopping.

Rogers Park
The Rogers Park station from the Kenosha-bound platform.
Location7000 North Ravenswood Avenue
Rogers Park, Chicago, Illinois 60626
Coordinates42.0093°N 87.6755°W / 42.0093; -87.6755
Owned byMetra
Platforms2 side platforms
Tracks2
Connections CTA Buses
Construction
Disabled accessYes
Other information
Fare zoneB
History
Opened1890
Passengers
20181,393 (average weekday)[1] 0.3%
Rank26 out of 236[1]
Services
Preceding station Metra Following station
Evanston Main Street
toward Kenosha
Union Pacific / North Ravenswood
toward Ogilvie
Former services
Preceding station Chicago and North Western Railway Following station
Calvary
toward Milwaukee
Milwaukee Division Kenmore
toward Chicago

The station has two side platforms, and although it does not contain a ticket agent booth, a small heated waiting room is available on the Lunt side between 5:00 AM - 11:00 AM. This line retains the "left-hand main" policy of the original builder, the Chicago and North Western Railway: northbound trains stop on the west platform and southbound trains stop on the east platform.

Rogers Park is served by Metra's Union Pacific/North Line trains, traveling between Ogilvie Transportation Center in Chicago and points as far north as Kenosha, Wisconsin. Rogers Park is the northernmost Union Pacific/North Line station in Chicago. Travel time to Ogilvie is usually 20 minutes, but can be as fast as 15 minutes on a rush hour express train and as slow as 23 minutes during overcrowding.

The closest CTA Red Line station is Morse, located five blocks to the east of Rogers Park station.

Bus connections

CTA

  • 22 Clark (Owl Service)
  • 96 Lunt (Weekdays only)

References

  1. "Commuter Rail System Station Boarding/Alighting Count: Summary Results Fall 2018" (PDF). Metra. April 2019. Archived from the original (PDF) on 26 May 2019.
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