Chillicothe station (Illinois)

Chillicothe was an Amtrak stop in Chillicothe, Illinois; a suburb of Peoria. The station was a stop on the Southwest Chief between Chicago Union Station and Los Angeles Union Station before the alignment was changed to go via Burlington Northern Santa Fe's Mendota Subdivision in 1996.

Chillicothe, IL
Former Amtrak and AT&SF station
The former Chillicothe Amtrak station in 2016.
General information
Location	1831 North Santa Fe Avenue, Chillicothe, Illinois 61523  United States
Coordinates	40.929659°N 89.495377°W / 40.929659; -89.495377
Owned by	BNSF Railway
Platforms	1 side platform
Tracks	3
Construction
Structure type	At-grade
Other information
Station code	CIA[1]
History
Closed	August 1, 1996[2]
Former services
Preceding station Amtrak Following station Galesburg (SF Depot) toward Dallas or Houston Lone Star Streator toward Chicago Galesburg (SF Depot) toward Los Angeles Southwest Chief Preceding station Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway Following station Edelstein toward Los Angeles Main Line Wilbern toward Chicago

Amtrak service at Chillicothe began on May 1, 1971 with the Chicago-Houston Texas Chief,[3] a service previously run by the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway. This route was renamed the Lone Star in 1974 and discontinued in 1979.[4]

For most of Amtrak's first quarter-century, it was Peoria's only link to the national rail system. The short-lived Prairie Marksman ran to East Peoria in 1980 and 1981.

The station site, Streator and the Galesburg station are currently served by BNSF on their Chillicothe Subdivision.