The story
Opened 1930 on the C&NW Wisconsin Division; now a fare-zone-3 Metra stop with a staffed station house and three tracks, 62 weekday trains and about 1,879 weekday boardings (2018).
Everything that was here
- 1930–present · still open
Mount Prospect Station (Metra Union Pacific Northwest Line)Government
The 1930 depot that made Mount Prospect a commuter town.
See the map in 1931 →
Connected places
Arlington Heights Metra Station
Arlington Heights, IL
Chicago and North Western Railway
Deerfield Train Station
Deerfield, IL
Metra
Capannari's Ice Cream
Mount Prospect, IL
John Conrad Moehling
Moehling General Store
Mount Prospect, IL
John Conrad Moehling
Mount Prospect Historical Society Museum Campus
Mount Prospect, IL
John Conrad Moehling
Meeske's Market
Mount Prospect, IL
Mount Prospect
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Nearby history
Moehling General Store
3 E Northwest Hwy · 67 m away
General store, post office and railroad office rolled into one.
Edward Busse Building
100 E Northwest Hwy · 76 m away
Nearly a century of Busse-family ownership ended with a $1.7 million sale and a bulldozer.
Keefer's Pharmacy
5 W Prospect Ave · 77 m away
From 15 prescriptions a day to 285.
Mary Jayne's Ladies Apparel
15 W Prospect Ave · 86 m away
A women's clothing shop that outlasted three decades of fashion.
Mount Prospect Police & Fire Headquarters (Public Safety Building)
112 E Northwest Hwy · 86 m away
A 1991 public-safety building that lasted barely three decades.
Mrs. P & Me
100 E Prospect Ave · 133 m away
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