Outside Illinois Terminal in downtown Champaign. This is the Amtrak station and also the Greyhound and local bus depot.
Champaign-Urbana is on the Amtrak system, and is served by three regularly-scheduled train routes, the 58/59 City of New Orleans, the 390/391 Saluki and the 392/393 Illini. All trains run Chicago to Carbondale and the 58/59 continues southward to Memphis, Jackson, and New Orleans. Here are the daily arrival/departure times:
The train is an excellent option for traveling between Champaign-Urbana and downtown Chicago, with tickets costing as little as $15 each way if booked far enough in advance. Trip time to Chicago is about 2h 50m, and one can connect to the Amtrak national network there. Amtrak, the commercial bus lines (Greyhound, Burlington Trailways, LEX, Illini Shuttle) and the municipal bus system (CUMTD, DMT) all arrive and depart from Illinois Terminal in downtown Champaign. However, it should be noted that there is only one set of tracks along much if not most of the route between New Orleans and Chicago and freight trains are given priority. This can result in long delays, particularly toward the Chicago and New Orleans ends of the City of New Orleans train service.
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