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Millennium Station
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Address	Michigan Avenue between South Water & Randolph Street Chicago, IL
Lines	Metra Electric South Shore Line
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Rebuilt	2005
Accessible

The Randolph Street Terminal renamed "Millennium Station" after the 2006 completion of its rehab and location underneath Millennium Park (sometimes called the Randolph Street Station or the Randolph-South Water Street Station) is a major commuter rail terminal in downtown Chicago that serves the Metra Electric Line to University Park, Blue Island, and South Chicago; and the South Shore Line to Gary and South Bend, Indiana. The terminal was built by the Illinois Central Railroad and is now owned by the Northeast Illinois Regional Commuter Railroad Corporation, or Metra.

Because the tracks leading to the station go through Grant Park in an open cut, the Illinois Central was required by City Council to electrify its suburban services in 1926.^{[citation needed]} As a result, all lines now terminating at Randolph Street use electric multiple units rather than Diesel push-pull trains like all of Metra's other lines. During peak periods, trains leave the terminal as frequently as twice a minute.

The station was torn apart from the mid-1980s until just recently - 2005 - initially because of construction on the adjacent street, but continued unrenovated for 20 years due to budget constrictions and, eventually, the planning and building of Millennium Park (a project that also took longer than expected to complete). Its steel girders covered with flame retardant material, badly painted plywood, unrelieved concrete floor, construction/utility lights, and cave-like environs which prevailed for two decades have now been transformed into a modern-looking rail station.

• Randolph/Wabash (CTA)

|Randolph Street Station 1895

Commuter lines terminating at Randolph Street, shown in Panama Orange and Dark South Shore Burgundy on this schematic, serve Chicago's southern and eastern suburbs in Illinois and Indiana

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