Clarendon Hills is a station on Metra's BNSF Line in Clarendon Hills, Illinois. The station is 18.3 rail miles (29.5 km) from Chicago Union Station, the east end of Metra service on this line.Metra Railfan Tips - BNSF Railway Line In Metra's zone-based fare system, Clarendon Hills is in zone 3. As of 2018, Clarendon Hills is the 66th busiest of Metra's 236 non-downtown stations, with an average of 799 weekday boardings.
The inbound station building (south of the tracks) was staffed until June 11, 2018. It later was replaced with an unstaffed building. Groundbreaking was on Jan 6, 2020; ribbon-cutting was on Nov 7, 2022. The outbound side has only two small covered shelters, one of which also provides bicycle racks and the other is a weather-protected warming center. Clarendon Hills' central business district is directly southwest of the station.
As of September 8, 2025, Clarendon Hills is served by 59 trains (30 inbound, 29 outbound) on weekdays, and by 36 trains (18 in each direction) on weekends and holidays.
On May 11, 2022, an inbound Metra train collided with a truck stopped on the tracks at the Prospect Avenue grade crossing. One passenger aboard the train was killed; two train employees and two passengers were injured.
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Station from Prospect Avenue from Google Maps Street View