Station: Chicago Heights, IL

Chicago Heights is a city and south suburb of Chicago in Cook County. It has a population of about 30,000 in 2010.

The town was a station on the Michigan Central Joliet Branch, between Dyer, IN and Matteson. The station was open day and night.

Chicago Heights was an interlocked crossing of the MC Joliet Branch and the C&EI (Chicago & Eastern Illinois). [ETT-1947]

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Time Line

1917. The MC had an operator-clerk here on the day shift. [TRT]

1955. Still open day and night. Telegraph call was "MC". Also had a freight house. [NYC-2024-Q3]