Hanson Park station
Hanson Park is a station on Metra's Milwaukee District West Line in the Hanson Park neighborhood of Chicago, Illinois. The station is away from Union Station, the eastern terminus of the line. In Metra's zone-based fare system, Hanson Park is in zone B. As of 2018, Hanson Park is the 207th busiest of Metra's 236 non-downtown stations, with an average of 58 weekday boardings. Metra’s North Central Service trains use these tracks but do not stop. As of 2022, Hanson Park is served by eight inbound trains and four outbound trains  on weekdays. There is no service on weekends or holidays. All trains scheduled to stop here treat the station as a flag stop. Parking for the station is available on both sides of Armitage Avenue between Major and Parkside Avenues. The station is sandwiched between Metra's main line and several holding tracks for freight trains bound for either Bensenville Yard or the Belt Railway of Chicago to the south of the station. Chicago Public School football games are held at Hanson Stadium, which sits north of the station. There is a bridge to the east of the station that  carries Central Ave (5600 W.) To the far west of the station is the former (now abandoned) television factory for Zenith Electronics. Before this station was built, the area around it was mostly a gigantic railroad yard for the Milwaukee Road until circa 1970's when it was demolished and moved to Bensenville yard. However, the Glidden grain elevator, located east of North Central Ave., remained on the former site until the 2000s when it was demolished to make way for a new shopping complex, residential dwellings and government buildings. In the 1960s, Zenith Electronics purchased a site of the  Galewood Yards from the Milwaukee Road to build its new headquarters. Bus connections. CTA