Plonsker Collection of Contemporary Cuban Photography in March. This spring, Lake Forest College Press will publish The Light in Cuban Eyes: Lake Forest College’s Madeleine P.Mammoser) and both books speak to the partnership between DePaul’s Chaddick Institute for Metropolitan Development and Lake Forest College. This is the Press’s second book with Schwieterman, following 2009’s Beyond Burnham (with Alan P. Chicago Book Review gave Terminal Town a three-star review. The Chicago Tribune described the book as a “photo-rich guide” to Chicago’s transportation hub from 1939 to the present. Schwieterman, has been a Press best-seller since is September release. Another recent Lake Forest College Press publication, Terminal Town: An Illustrated Guide to Chicago’s Airports, Bus Depots, Train Stations, and Steamship Landings, 1939 - Present, by Joseph P.English and Print and Digital Publishing students selected her as a finalist for the award, the Plonsker Prize, and she was selected as the winner by poet Lisa Robertson. Plonsker Emerging Writers Residency Award, where she worked as a writer-in-residence living in the College’s Glen Rowan House. The popular pop-culture website called Titanic “one of the most impressive debut works of poetry in 2014” and placed it among the top 10 poetry titles of the year, second only to Capital by Thomas Picketty, while Chicago Book Review gave the ground-breaking work a three-star review. Corrigan composed Titanic as the winner of the 2013 Madeleine P. Former writer for the HBO series “Luck,” Cecilia Corrigan’s poetry book Titanic (&NOW Books September 2014), was named one of the 2014 10 best books printed by academic publishers by Flavorwire.Amtrak service shifted to Naperville station, and continue to stop presently. The building was torn down in April 2013. It was also served by Amtrak and Metra trains until the opening of the Aurora Transportation Center. The station was constructed in 1922 by the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad and closed in 1986. The station replaced the former Aurora Depot, at the corners of South Broadway and Washington Street.

It served as a Greyhound bus stop until September 7, 2011. Amtrak and BNSF freights use the two tracks east of the station.Īurora is the west end of the BNSF Railway Line and is served by numerous Pace bus routes. Aurora is a stub-track terminal, which means the Metra tracks end here. Just north of the station is the Hill Yard, a large coach yard used to store the Metra trains on the BNSF Line. As of 2018, Aurora is the 13th busiest of Metra's 236 non-downtown stations, with an average of 1,856 weekday boardings. In Metra's zone-based fare system, Aurora is in zone H.

The station is 37.1 miles (59.7 km) from Union Station, the east end of the line. The Aurora Transportation Center is a station on Metra's BNSF Line in Aurora, Illinois.

Terminal Town by Joseph P. Schwieterman