Naperville Metra Station

Whenever I have to take the train I aim for the 8:00 AM express train! I love how it gets you to the city by 8:30 AM which is perfect timing for a 9 to 5! They hiked up the prices since I was last here so the $ 6.50 one way price seems a little outrageous for a daily commute. Definitely buy your tickets at the station or it’s a $ 3 up charge… ~crazyyyy~ and if you plan on doing the daily commute buy a monthly pass!
Station is nice and cleanly but ticket people are a little slow which is an inconvenience if you’re in a rush! 8 AM train is always full and has people standing so plan accordingly when you take an express train!

I had to ride the train to Naperville for about 45 consecutive weekdays from December of 2014 to February 2015. I almost always took the 8:30 PM train home and waited in this station (unless I needed a good, stiff drink and I went to Orazio, across the parking lot).
I’m giving this place five stars just for being open late, especially on the sub-​zero nights when the wind was whipping across the plains. Not every Metra station in a nice neighborhood stays open at night and on weekends (Yeah, I’m looking at you, Arlington Heights! Somebody had to say it!) It’s a comfortable place with the classic wooden benches you might expect, and clean bathrooms.
In fact, I was there so often that I made friends with the cleaning crew, which came in every evening about that time. They were friendly and let me practice my poor Spanish at no extra charge. And if you’re there in January after it’s snowed, and they arrive, don’t be one of those people who doesn’t lift their feet when the crew is trying to mop up the ½ inch of salt on the tile, OK? They’re just trying to put a little comida on the table and zapatos on their kids’ feet.

I love this station! It is very clean, and it has the homey feeling of a train station. The Metra trains also always come on time. Whenever I come home or go back to Chicago, I love coming to this Metra station.
A few tips: the ticket window does not open on weekend, so you buy tickets on train instead. They will not charge you extra; don’t worry.

Dear Route 59 Metra Station,
It’s not me, it’s YOU.
Naperville has the nicest Metra Station. I’ve rode the train to Union Station out of a handful of stations. None of them were as nice as Naperville. It’s no wonder there is a crazy waiting list for permit parking here (last I heard it was six years). There is a large, enclosed waiting area, with bathrooms that are unlocked even if a ticket agent isn’t on duty. Bathrooms are always locked at other stations like Route 59 and Hanover Park. It also was heated, or felt like it was. Although a ticket agent is not on duty on Saturdays, there is an ATM and an Amtrak ticket kiosk inside. I saw about four large benches inside, so there is lots of room to sit and wait.
Parking is free after 6:00 p.m. and on weekends. I don’t know who determines whether or not parking is free on weekends, because it definitely wasn’t last time I rode the train from Hanover Park.
I always gripe about Naperville: entitled teenagers bred by entitled adults traipsing around downtown Naperville like they own the place. A parent of a local Naperville football player recently went to Twitter to tell the Aurora parents to «bring their food stamps to dine in downtown Naperville,» prior to a playoff football game, and that is the kind of attitude that some people brought into the Naperville Metra Station on a Saturday morning: aloof, entitled, pushy — a small girl knocked into my side and the parent just ushered her along.
If you’re anything like me, Naperville and other «wealthy» suburbs might irk you, but I’ve got to admit that they have the best Metra Station. Route 59, I think it’s over between us.

Heading to Downtown Chicago for the night! This is the easiest way to get from my parents house into the city. They live in Naperville and the best thing about the Naperville Station on the BNSF rail line… there are so many express trains that don’t stop en route to union station.