How many railroad crossings are in Cook County, Illinois?
The federal inventory lists 841 public railroad crossings in Cook County, Illinois.
FRA inventory of .
- Public crossings
- 841
- Public crossings with identified warning devices
- 768
- Public crossings reported with gates
- 65%
- Most trains a day reported
- 215
- Reported incidents at public crossings since 2016
- 428
- Gate share compared with the state
- 11 percentage points higher
Where these public crossings are.
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Gates are reported at 65% of these crossings.
- Gates55065%
- Flashing lights without reported gates9611%
- Signs without reported gates or lights12215%
- Other or not reported739%
Each crossing appears once, grouped by its reported warning devices. Missing fields don't mean the warning devices are absent.
Incident counts cover January 2016 through 31 July 2026. They describe reported events, not a measure of crossing safety.
Traffic counts were collected at different times. Road count years appear with each record; train count years are not reported separately.
Compare the reported train traffic.
Public crossings are ordered by reported trains a day, from most to lowest.
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Source: Federal Railroad Administration crossing inventory and reported highway-rail incidents. How the data works