Fire on Friday heavily damaged the abandoned Union Station train shed, a National Historic Landmark that is key to efforts to attract tourists to a revitalized downtown. The fire was believed ...

Union Station ... Polk Streets by the Chicago and Western Indiana Railroad. Originally the station included a brick, terra cotta and brownstone headhouse and a large train shed with a timber ...

Beginning in the 1850s, “The Main Line of Mid-America” rolled freight and passenger trains out of Chicago ... Station at Polk and Dearborn survived, but its tracks, platform and train shed ...