Downers Grove Main Street (also known as Downers Grove or Main Street) is one of three railroad stations on

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Downers Grove, Illinois Downers Grove is a village in DuPage County, Illinois, United States. It was founded in 1832 by Pierce Downer, whose surname serves as the eponym for the village. It is a south-west suburb of Chicago. The village is located between I-88 and I- ...

. The station is at Main Street, from

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, the east end of the line. As of 2018, Downers Grove Main Street is the sixth busiest of Metra's 236 non-downtown stations, with an average of 2,492 weekday boardings. The local police department and library are nearby. Parking lots are managed by the Village of Downers Grove. The station has connections to multiple Pace Buses, including the Commuter Shuttle lines. This station was the site of the 1947 Zephyr train wreck that killed 3 and injured more than 30. The station went under a $1.1 million platform replacement project, which finished in the summer of 2015. Many trains on the BNSF run express to or from Downers Grove. This is common during the morning and evening rush hours, in an effort to get passengers to the busier stations quicker.

Bus connections

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* 834 Joliet/Downers Grove

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Image of Westbound Train @ Downers Grove/Main Street (Metra Railfans)1949 Photo of Station (DigitalPast.org)Downer's Grove-Main Street Crossing (Mike's Railroad Crossing Website)Station from Main Street from Google Maps Street View
Metra stations in Illinois Former Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad stations Main Street Railway stations in DuPage County, Illinois Railway stations in the United States opened in 1911 {{Illinois-railstation-stub