Riding Metra to downtown Chicago has many advantages over driving:…read more1. Spaces for Day Parking $2 until 2359 hrs. 2. Buy parking pass via ATM. 3. Rte 59 station has bathrooms, ATM, bus card machine, soda, snacks, coffee shop, dry cleaner, and a live person behind bulletproof glass. 4. Bathrooms are relatively clean and have toilet paper - and are free to use. 2018 cost for a round trip ticket to Union Station is $16. Damn, that's high - but still less than parking downtown. But the best part about riding the train is the gentle rocking motion that puts me right to sleep. Don't worry about missing your stop. All you have to do is ask the conductor to wake you and they usually do.

So call me crazy, but my experience with the Route 59 train station usually involves me being…read morefrazzled, frustrated, and slightly out of breath. Okay, so some of this is my own fault (for always running late), but I've never had an overly stellar experience here. With this review I hope to provide some tricks and tips I've learned along the way to help make your commuter experience more enjoyable! -- Commuting into the city during the week? If you want to snag a daily park spot, follow these guidelines: 7:32 a.m. train or earlier = no problem parking 7:52 a.m. train = you're taking a gamble but still possible 8:16 a.m. train = forget it. No daily spots available. -- Daily parking is $2, so bring cash. Also maybe carry some back-up change because it's happened to me more than once where the meter I'm using isn't accepting dollar bills for whatever reason. -- During the week they have a little shop below the Metra station office. Pop in for some coffee, breakfast or a snack for your morning commute! There's also a dry cleaners located here, which I would assume might make some people's lives a lot more convenient. -- 7:32 am train during the week is an express train into the city and it's glorious. Straight shot into union after Naperville and it's not packed so you can probably snag your own seat! -- Weekend parking is FREE. Total plus. Traveling into the city on a weekend is easy-peasy. -- Depending where you're coming from, AVOID taking Route 59 to get to the station. CONSTRUCTION, CONSTRUCTION, CONSTRUCTION. Always. -- There's a waiting list for a monthly parking pass, but it's not as bad as the Naperville Train Station.

Nice clean station that has a barber, coffee shop and nice benches to wait for your train…read more The train into Chicago Union Station is also very clean and efficient. I'd take it again!

Station was very clean. 5 big vending machines for your snack needs. Many announcements about the…read moretrain leaving so there was no surprises. A person was making their simple coffee shop. That was also very clean and the worker was friendly.

I live in Chicago and my Mother who recently passed lived in Oswego, IL…read more I called Amigo and mentioned that I would be in the next day for the funeral. They arrived just as my Metra Train to Aurora came into the station from Chicago. The fare to the church in Oswego was reasonable and I would recommend Amigo Taxi Services of Aurora as they were dependable and friendly.

They NEVER SHOWED UP! I had made a very unambiguous reservation the day before to take me to the…read morehospital for scheduled surgery. No one showed up! When I called to ask, I was told that they have multiple dispatchers who answer phones, and there was no record of my reservation! I had to drive myself to the hospital and leave my car there.

Nice station, less busy than the Wheaton station and has plenty of parking. The tunnel under the…read moretracks makes having to worry about catching your train far less stressful. There is plenty of seating and it's nice to have so much covered space while your waiting in the rain for the train. Shout out to the super nice guy running the coffee/snack shop who let my husband and I have our coffee only after we realized we had no cash (SO embarrassing)! We'll be paying you back tomorrow sir! He has a great selection of coffee, milk and syrups for your $1.50 medium coffee.

Possibly the best station due to the parking and the walkways…read more The good... the station is recently renovated (a few years ago), so there's a decent interior, clean bathrooms, coffee, vending machines, etc... From the exterior, there's a pay by day lot right next to the station (north side) and a permit lot and meters just south of the station. There are both pedestrian walkways above and below ground. This makes access easy and convenient. The bad... not as many covered vestibules along the walk way as some stations, but still pretty good all considered.

I always get nervous waiting out here for the train. There is no one here manning the station,…read more and it's kind of out in the middle of nowhere. It would be great if they extended it to DeKalb; there's already a station built here in town. However, they won't for several reasons: 1. They would have to extend the third rail from Elburn to DeKalb, and they would have to raise taxes quite a bit to do that and pay Metra to come out here. 2. Metra does not want to go outside the 3-county Chicago area(Cook, Lake and Kane) 3. they moved 1/2 of Cabrini Green to DeKalb when it was closed, which caused us to have quite a bit of crime and drugs out here. DeKalb doesn't want or need any more of that. We have shootings and stuff quite often. So, they made a good compromise by making a bus route that goes to the station and back several times per day, It has been quite a blessing to have that bus, but it needs to run more often!

I'm from Chicago and moved to DeKalb in 2019 and when I do go to Chicago it would be nice to have a…read moremore or even more means instead of having to travel to Elburn from DeKalb as that's a nice ride and I have to stop at Northern to catch a bus as well only few buses even go to the city during the week if you plan on going and it's only 1 bus at a certain time to pick you up and bring you back it's almost as if you need a car or set up your own transportation from Elburn otherwise just stay overnite in the city except with the gas prices.... either way it's worth the trip so I make the most of it and yes it would be nice to have an Agent at the Elburn Station

S & L Limo is a family owned service. I found them after searching the reviews on the internet and…read morecoming up with a select few that had very good reviews. The reviews were spot on. Ron, the owner is a very accomodating and professional person. I booked a black sedan for my daughter and her boyfriend's prom. As my daughter is only 15 and the boy is 18, I had expressed my concerns to Ron about the situation with her being younger. Ron assured me that his driver "Sam" would take as good care of my daughter as he would his own kids and that he did! Sam rolled up in his sedan that was immaculately kept (looked like he just waxed it). He exchanged numbers with me and the kids and he made sure that he called me when the kids got there and then when they were on their way back. Sam was a great driver and the kids loved him. I can't tell you how pleased I am with this limo service and I would definitely use them again and recommend them to others. Thank you Ron and Sam for a job well done! Barbara B.

This was the absolute worst service I have ever recieved... for ANYTHING! My party was scheduled…read moreto be picked up from Batavia at 7pm and picked up from our location in Chicago at 10:15pm, had these times confirmed via email and voice mail multiple times before the service. At 7pm I get a call stating that our driver TONY is running late... no big deal right? Wrong because he version of late means 45min later when we are supposed to be seated for our show in Chicago by 8:30, so we have exactly 45 min to get there! Fortunately we make it there by the skin of our teeth and the show hadn't begun on time so we were fine. As we exit the limo TONY proceeds to basically tell us that we are going to give him a break because he got us there without missing the show, that my name was in fact the first name of another party he was supposed to be dealing with that night and argued with me about what my name was and then tried to reconfirm a pick up time of 12:15. What?!?! Uh no, so when I corrected him and told him once again that my name was not Tracy and that our confirmed pick up time was 10:15 he then said "oh ok, I must have just had you confused with someone else... no problem"... ok fine. Show gets out at 10, my group including two very pregnant women are standing curbside waiting patiently for 10:15 to roll around and still no TONY. So, I call him and first time he doesn't pick up... 2nd time he answers the phone "yeeaaahhh...." so I told him once again, who I was and was calling to make sure that he was going to be there to get us any minute and not at 12:15 like he tried to confirm curbside earlier that evening. He then told me "yeah no, that wasn't the confirmation time I was given" so I reminded him that we definetely had the conversation on the curb about how the 12:15 time was wrong and that I had email and voice mail to prove him otherwise. He continued to argue with me about it and said the earliest he could be there was in 45 minutes and that we were to just "deal with it". Completely enraged I told him that was unacceptable and then he said he would try to figure something out and call be back. No call back from TONY, tried to call the owner myself and only got voice mail, and every member of my group tried to call TONY when he wouldn't pick up for me only to get the same voice mail I was getting. 2 hours pass and still no Limo or call from anybody. We got a ride home from a friend of the family who was completely inconvenienced. Next day I tried calling the company got a voice mail and then my husband called and was able to talk to the owner. His story was that TONY said he was only 20 min late and that a member of my party had changed the pick up time to 12:15. We still had to pay for our ride out there but not the ride home. He basically believed the scam artist employee over his customers. DON'T ANYBODY USE THIS SERVICE they obviously contain no professionalism and care nothing about their customers!

I've been receiving rides from telecab for about 8 months now and I have nothing but good things to…read moresay about the two guys who usually give me rides! Thank you Vern and josh for always keeping me safe on our rides I appreciate the rides and conversations!