Ogilvie Transportation Center

Posted by Steven (Chicagoland, United States) on 21 October 2009 in Architecture and Portfolio.

Shimmering like a blue topaz gem in the Chicago cityscape, the Richard B. Ogilvie Transportation Center is a passenger terminal in downtown Chicago, serving the three commuter rail lines of Metra's Union Pacific District, which approach the terminal elevated above street level. It occupies the lower floors of the Citigroup Center. The building occupies two square blocks, bounded by Randolph Street and Madison Street to the north and south and by Canal Street and Clinton Street to the east and west.

In 1984, the station was razed and replaced with the glass-and-steel 42-story Citicorp Center, which was completed three years later in 1987. The station was re-named the Ogilvie Transportation Center in 1997, two years after the C&NW merged into the Union Pacific Railroad. The station was named for Richard B. Ogilvie, a board member of the Milwaukee Road and a lifelong railroad proponent, who, as governor of Illinois, created the Regional Transportation Authority (RTA), which is the parent agency of Metra. The station remains known colloquially as North Western Station or North Western Terminal.

Photo taken from the Sears Tower Skydeck on September 25, 2009.

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