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Chicago Hts
Illinois.
The federal crossing inventory lists 28 public at-grade railroad crossings in Chicago Hts, IL, operated by 2 railroads. 13 of them carry more than one track.
Who runs the track
Union Pacific Railroad Company operates 20 of the crossings here, 71% of the total, ahead of WISCONSIN CENTRAL LTD. at 7.
Train services crossing these streets: freight (28).
| Railroad | Crossings | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Union Pacific Railroad Company | 20 | 71% |
| WISCONSIN CENTRAL LTD. | 7 | 25% |
How much traffic is reported
The busiest crossing at Chicago Rd on WISCONSIN CENTRAL LTD. is credited with 28 train movements a day; the middle of the range across all 28 is 0. These are counts the operating railroad reported to the FRA, not measurements, and a crossing's figure can be several years old.
The highest timetable speed recorded at any crossing here is 50 mph.
Warning devices
16 of the 28 crossings carry gates and 9 have flashing lights without gates. 3 (11%) have neither, which means crossbucks, a stop sign, or no marking the inventory records at all. The inventory describes equipment, not how a crossing performs.
Horns and quiet zones
4 of the crossings (14%) are recorded under a whistle ban. A quiet zone is not silence: horns still sound for emergencies, track workers and at the engineer's discretion, and the status in the inventory is only as current as the last railroad filing.
Incident history
Form 57 records 7 reported incidents at these crossings since 2016, involving 1 death and 2 injuries. Incident counts follow traffic and exposure as much as anything about a crossing itself.
- East 16th Street — 1 reported incident
- Chicago Rd — 1 reported incident
- Halsted St — 1 reported incident
- East End — 1 reported incident
- State St — 1 reported incident
What this page is not
This is a summary of a federal inventory, not a measurement and not a rating. RailContext does not score crossings, streets or towns, and nothing here says a crossing is safe or unsafe, or that a neighbourhood is quiet or loud. Train counts are estimates the operating railroad filed, sometimes years ago, and a quiet zone does not guarantee silence.
To see the individual crossings nearest one address rather than a whole city, use the address check.