Tuesday, January 22, 2013
After a month of the ticket office being closed since a van drove through the station wall, the station finally reopened this week.
One month after a van drove through the wall of the La Grange Road Metra train station, the station and office are now open for business again, the Chicago Tribune reports. According to the paper, the damage to the station has not been fully repaired by Metra, who say they have no timetable for completing a permanent fix, but what has been done is sufficient to reopen the waiting room and the ticket-agent office. "I had to take the train last week, and I'm not a regular user, so I couldn't buy a ticket," La Grange resident John Matthews told the paper. "You could buy it on a train but then you have to pay more." (A Metra spokesman told the paper that in circumstances where ticket agents could not be available during ordinary times, extra …
Thursday, December 20, 2012
One person was transported to La Grange Adventist with minor injuries; the van has now been successfully removed from the wall of the station.
UPDATED, 8:28 p.m.: Crews have successfully removed the silver Chrysler Town and Country minivan from the wall of the La Grange (Road) train station at 25 W. Burlington Avenue where it was embedded after a crash at about 1:30 p.m. on Thursday. A spokesman for Metra, Tom Miller, confirmed that an 82-year-old Michigan woman had accidentally backed the vehicle into the station when she hit the gas by mistake. The woman was uninjured; one person inside the station was transported to Adventist La Grange Memorial Hospital with minor injuries. “We’re still assessing any damage to the station itself,” Miller said. He added that train service will not be affected, but could not say when the station will reopen or how repairs will proceed. Crews …
Tuesday, September 27, 2011
Village board approves plan for architectural services based on 2007 agreements.
The Village of La Grange Board of Trustees approved a plan to renovate the Stone Avenue Train Station, but Trustee Michael Horvath believes the village got the short end of the financial stick. Horvath criticized the board’s decision to move forward on a plan to renovate the 110-year-old station based on prices secured in 2007. Horvath was joined by Trustee James Palermo in opposing the plan during Monday night’s board meeting. The vote moves forward a renovation project that has its roots in 20007. That year Legat Architects was tapped by the village to design renovations for the historic train station. After drafting preliminary plans Legat presented renovations that had an estimated cost of $985,000. Legat would receive approximately $…
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Wednesday, August 24, 2011
If you want to protect your bike at the train station—so it's there when you need to get home—check out what the La Grange bike lock experts say.
Editor's Note: check out our article on bike theft in La Grange here. Variety of locks available to bikers in town Just through the entrance of The Wheel Thing bike shop in downtown La Grange sits a display of the variety of bike locks available for purchase. The prices range from about $20 for a wire lock and upwards of $100 for a heavy chain or U-lock. According to George Egner, a sales associate at The Wheel Thing, the type of lock you should buy depends on what you generally use your bike for. “If you’re just running into the store, a wire lock is usually good enough,” Egner said. “But if you’re going to leave it out for a long time, a U-lock is worth it.” Many of the higher-end locks available at The Wheel Thing also include a wire …
Janet Barrett
1:52 pm on Friday, December 21, 2012
What I cringe about is when someone uses the diagonal spaces to drop someone off in the early morning commuter rush, decides that is just the place to do a three-point turn with their minivan, to go back west on Burlington, rather than go to the stoplight, make a right-hand turn on La Grange Rd., and simply go around the block - 5 min.? more ›