How many railroad crossings are in Cook County, Illinois?
The FRA inventory of lists 841 public railroad crossings in Cook County, Illinois.
- 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 are these public crossings?
Browse the listThe map shows the available locations on this page. Area shading may include crossings outside this group.
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 rating of crossings.
Traffic counts were collected at different times. Road count years appear with each record; train count years are not reported separately.
How many trains pass each crossing?
Public crossings are ordered by reported trains a day, from most to lowest.
- Rodenburg RoadSchaumburg10,050 vehicles a day2022 road count
- Spaulding RdBartlett1,750 vehicles a day2022 road count
- North Kilbourn AvenueChicago6,600 vehicles a day2022 road count
- First AvenueMaywood25,200 vehicles a day2023 road count
- North 5th AvenueMaywood8,900 vehicles a day2022 road count
- 9th AvenueMaywood9,300 vehicles a day2022 road count
- South 19th AvenueMelrose Park4,900 vehicles a day2022 road count
- Wolf RoadBerkeley2,900 vehicles a day2023 road count
- Oakton StMorton Grove21,400 vehicles a day2023 road count
- Techny RoadNorthbrook7,500 vehicles a day2022 road count
- Galewood PedwayChicagoNo road count has been reported.
- Mannheim PedwayFranklin ParkNo road count has been reported.
- W Columbus AvenueChicago12,000 vehicles a day2022 road count
- Pedestrian Station-metraChicago1 vehicle a day1983 road count
- Pedestrain Station MetraChicagoNo road count has been reported.
- Morton Grove PedMorton GroveNo road count has been reported.
- Northbrook PedNorthbrookNo road count has been reported.
- Edgebrook PedwayChicagoNo road count has been reported.
- Glenview W PedwayGlenviewNo road count has been reported.
- N Glen E PedwayGlenviewNo road count has been reported.
- N Glen W PedwayGlenviewNo road count has been reported.
- Lake Cook E PedDeerfieldNo road count has been reported.
- Lake Cook W PedDeerfieldNo road count has been reported.
- Indiana AveRiverdale5,000 vehicles a day2022 road count
- Thornton RdDixmoor5,250 vehicles a day2023 road count
- S Western AvenueDixmoor6,700 vehicles a day2022 road count
- Gifford RdElgin3,800 vehicles a day2022 road count
- E Cossitt AvenueLa Grange3,050 vehicles a day2022 road count
- Lincoln AveLa Grange725 vehicles a day2022 road count
- Shawmut AveLa Grange3,750 vehicles a day2022 road count
- Oakwood AvenueWilmette475 vehicles a day2022 road count
- Linden AvenueWilmette2,300 vehicles a day2022 road count
- Wilmette AvenueWilmette3,450 vehicles a day2022 road count
- Central AvenueWilmette2,350 vehicles a day2022 road count
- East Lake AvenueWilmette6,800 vehicles a day2022 road count
- Forest AvenueWilmette350 vehicles a day2022 road count
- Elmwood AvenueWilmette475 vehicles a day2022 road count
- Kenilworth AvenueKenilworth2,050 vehicles a day2022 road count
- 87th StChicagoNo road count has been reported.
- 95th StChicagoNo road count has been reported.
- PedestrianWilmette1 vehicle a dayRoad count year not reported
- West Bryn Mawr AvenueChicago12,900 vehicles a day2023 road count
- North Nagle AvenueChicago23,300 vehicles a day2023 road count
- West Raven StreetChicago2,300 vehicles a day2022 road count
- North Sayre AvenueChicago900 vehicles a day2022 road count
- Harlem AvenueChicago22,300 vehicles a day2023 road count
- West Devon AvenueChicago14,800 vehicles a day2023 road count
- North Oliphant AvenueChicago700 vehicles a day2022 road count
- North Ozark AvenueChicago11,300 vehicles a day2023 road count
- South Prospect AvenuePark Ridge2,550 vehicles a day2022 road count
Trains blocking a crossing in Cook County? How to report it.Blocked crossing rules in Illinois
Source: Federal Railroad Administration crossing inventory and reported highway-rail incidents. Sources and dates