Chicagoland RailHC Line (Heritage Corridor) — Metra schedule & live train times
The HC Line — Metra's Heritage Corridor route — runs between Joliet and Chicago Union Station, serving 7 stations. A typical weekday has 6 trains, 3 of them toward downtown.
At a glance
- Downtown terminal
- Chicago Union Station
- Outer terminal
- Joliet
- Stations
- 7
- Weekday trains
- 6 (3 toward downtown, 3 outbound)
- Saturday / Sunday trains
- No weekend service
- End to end
- about 67 min
- First weekday train to downtown
- 5:45 AM from Joliet
- Last weekday train to downtown
- 7:05 AM from Joliet
- Express runs
- 0 of 3 from Joliet
- Fare zones
- 1, 2, 3, 4
- One-way to downtown
- $3.75–$6.75
Every HC station
In order from Joliet to Chicago Union Station. Fares are the full one-way adult fare to Chicago Union Station, priced by fare zone.
| Station | Zone | One-way downtown |
|---|---|---|
| Joliet | 4 | $6.75 |
| Lockport | 4 | $6.75 |
| Romeoville | 4 | $6.75 |
| Lemont | 3 | $5.50 |
| Willow Springs | 3 | $5.50 |
| Summit | 2 | $3.75 |
| Chicago Union Station | 1 | — |
Day Pass and Monthly prices, and fares between two suburban stations, are in the app's fare sheet.
Live times, delays and alerts
The numbers above are the published schedule. For what's actually running — live departures, delay minutes, cancellations and HC service alerts — open the app and pick your two stations. It's free, installs to your phone, and works offline on the last schedule it loaded.
Other Metra lines
BNSF — Burlington Northern · MD-N — Milwaukee North · MD-W — Milwaukee West · ME — Metra Electric · NCS — North Central Service · RI — Rock Island · SWS — Southwest Service · UP-N — Union Pacific North · UP-NW — Union Pacific Northwest · UP-W — Union Pacific West