After spending 12 months obscured by construction scaffolding, the 18,000-square-foot skylight above Chicago Union Station’s historic Great Hall made a triumphant return to the public eye ...

In 2018 developers scrapped plans to build a seven-story apartment addition above Chicago’s historic Beaux-Arts Union Station head house. Solomon Cordwell Buenz ...

Chicago Union Station, opened in 1925 and now Amtrak’s fourth-busiest (serving 37.6 million Amtrak and Metra rail passengers annually, 120,000 on a typical weekday), has undergone a $22 million ...

Think the train station is massive? 70 percent of it is walled off to the public. Take a look at the abandoned spaces Amtrak hopes to redevelop and see historic photos of what once was there.

“Union Station certainly needs a champion,” confided one transit leader here. “It’s a challenge to get officials to focus on this.” Former Mayor Rahm Emanuel certainly was focused on ...

Kevin Costner, portraying Eliot Ness, saves the day — and a baby — at Union Station in Chicago in 1987’s “The Untouchables.’ Those stairs, which have been admirably renovated as part of ...

In 2004, Chicago watched historic Soldier Field become a toilet bowl. In 2019, Union Station will become a self-inked address stamper. During a public meeting on June 25, Chicago-based architects ...

“The renovation of Union Station will revitalize Chicago and solidify our city as the transportation hub in the country. Modernizing this grand, historic building will not only bring thousands of good ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- Officials attended a groundbreaking Friday morning for the new tower development that will soon be built at Union Station. "Downtown Chicago is experiencing a building boom ...