Ogilvie Transportation Center (formally, the Richard B. Ogilvie Transportation Center) is a Chicago, Illinois train station which was in built 1911, during the time when Chicago reigned as the undisputed railroad center of the United States. Formerly known as North Western Station for its former owner, the Chicago and Northwestern Railway, the station was re-named for Richard Buell Ogilvie (former governor of Illinois, former board member of the Milwaukee Road and lifelong railroad proponent), in 1997 (two years after the C&NW ceased to exist). The station is still known colloquially as "Northwestern Station".

North Western station was dramatically modified in 1984, when the Renaissance Revival -style headhouse was razed and replaced with the glass-and-steel 42-story Citicorp Center , which was completed in 1987. Ogilvie Transportation Center now occupies two square blocks of downtown Chicago, bounded by Randolph Street, Canal Street, Madison Street and Clinton Street.

Intercity passenger rail service is handled at nearby Union Station, but the station is still the Chicago destination for three Metra lines of C&NW successor Union Pacific Railroad.

References

Keefe, Kevin P. "City of Six Stations", in Trains Magazine, July 2003, p. 69.