The Dwight railroad depot was built in Dwight, Illinois

Dwight, Illinois

Dwight is a village in located mainly in Livingston County, Illinois, with a small portion in Grundy County, Illinois. The population was 4,260 at the 2010 census. Dwight contains an original stretch of the famous U.S. Route 66, and uses a railroad station designed in 1891 by Henry Ives Cobb. It is...

, United States

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 by the Chicago and Alton Railroad in 1891 to a design by architect Henry Ives Cobb

Henry Ives Cobb

Henry Ives Cobb , born in Brookline, Massachusetts to Albert Adams and Mary Russell Candler Cobb, was a Chicago-based architect in the last decades of the 19th century, known for his designs in the Romanesque and Victorian Gothic styles...

. Built in the Richardson Romanesque style of rusticated masonry, the structure has been on the National Register of Historic Places

National Register of Historic Places

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 since December 27, 1982.

The depot continues to serve Amtrak

Amtrak

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 passenger traffic between Chicago

Chicago

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 and St. Louis

St. Louis, Missouri

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. Amtrak trains serving the station are the Lincoln Service. This was also a stop for the Ann Rutledge

Ann Rutledge (Amtrak)

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until April 2007. Travel time to downtown Chicago is approximately 1.5 hours. The depot is located at 119 W. Main Street.

External links

• Livingston County Listings at the National Register of Historic Places
  National Register of Historic Places
  The National Register of Historic Places is the United States government's official list of districts, sites, buildings, structures, and objects deemed worthy of preservation...
  
  
• Dwight Amtrak Station (USA Rail Guide -- Train Web)
• Dwight Railroad Depot -- Dwight Area Chamber of Commerce