The elaborate Oaklawn Metra commuter rail station. Oaklawn Illinois USA. June 2007.

This is the elaborate, spacious, and relatively new Metra commuter rail station ,in southwest suburban Oaklawn Illinois near West 95th street. I can recall during the 1990's before this big station was built, that the station that stood here then, was nothing more than a 3 sided plastic bus shelter type of structure with the platforms and a bench or two. This is on the Norfolk Southern Railroad line. In recent times, the Metra trains only went from Chicago to Orland Park Illinois on a very limited schedule. Now the trains run from Chicago to Manhatten Illinois in Will County. These trains still only run 5 days a week, only now there is more trains during the weekdays.