Hollywood station (Illinois)

Hollywood
The platforms of the Hollywood station with their distinctive shelters designed for the Brookfield Zoo.
Location Golf Road and Hollywood Avenue
Brookfield, Illinois
Coordinates 41°49′27″N 87°50′01″W / 41.8242°N 87.8337°W / 41.8242; -87.8337Coordinates: 41°49′27″N 87°50′01″W / 41.8242°N 87.8337°W / 41.8242; -87.8337
Owned by Metra
Line(s)
  BNSF Railway
Platforms 2 side platforms
Tracks 3
Connections Pace Buses
Construction
Disabled access Yes
Other information
Fare zone C
History
Opened 1893
Rebuilt 1976
Traffic
Passengers (2014) 95 (avg. weekday)[1]
Rank 198 out of 236[2]
Services
Preceding station   Metra   Following station
toward Aurora
BNSF Railway

Hollywood is one of three stations on Metra's BNSF Railway Line in Brookfield, Illinois. The station is 11.7 miles (18.8 km) from Union Station, the east end of the line.[3] In Metra's zone-based fare system, Hollywood is in zone C. An unstaffed shelter is on the north side of the three tracks.

Hollywood station is the main stop for the Brookfield Zoo. It was originally built in 1893 when Samuel Eberly Gross, a Chicago lawyer, began selling building lots platted from farms and woodlands he had acquired along both sides of the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad line. He did the same thing with the current Brookfield station in 1889,[4] and the former West Grossdale station in 1895.[5] All three developments built by Gross voted to be incorporated into the Village of Grossdale. After Gross divorced his first wife, married a teenager, filed for bankruptcy and moved to Michigan, the residents voted to change the name of the village to Brookfield as well as two of the stations in 1905.[6][7] Hollywood station, however, kept its original name.

Bus connections

Pace

  • "Route 304 – Cicero - LaGrange". PaceBus.com. Chicago: Pace Suburban Bus Service.
  • "Route 331 – Cumberland - 5th Avenue". PaceBus.com. Chicago: Pace Suburban Bus Service.

References

  1. ↑ "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2016-03-26. Retrieved 2016-04-01.
  2. ↑ "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2016-03-26. Retrieved 2016-04-01.
  3. ↑ Metra Railfan Tips - BNSF Railway Line
  4. ↑ Brookfield Historical Society; The Village
  5. ↑ Brookfield Historical Society; The Village
  6. ↑ Brookfield Historical Society; The Village
  7. ↑ Kogan, Rick (August 24, 2003). "A life in three acts". Chicago Tribune. Retrieved 28 September 2017.


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