Info from our Metra experts please- Summit

Between what two stations would Summit be located? Is this area relatively safe? Thanks for any information.

Summit is the first outbound stop on the HC line, and is also an Amtrak station, about 5 mi N/NE of Willow Springs. Don't know much about the area in terms of safety, although it appears to be a small bedroom community surrounded by light industry...

doepack wrote:Summit is the first outbound stop on the HC line, and is also an Amtrak station, about 5 mi N/NE of Willow Springs. Don't know much about the area in terms of safety, although it appears to be a small bedroom community surrounded by light industry...

Might this be the first station east/northeast of the semaphores @ Brighton Park/Panhandle?

Yeah, it's the first stop west of the semaphores. If you ride the train outbound, it will cruise between 20 and 40mph and then will come to a stop. That's the semaphores. Then the first actual station stop is Summit. I've driven the area, and I have no problems, although I've never got off the train there - I rode thru, and it didn't look too threatening. I don't recall brighton itself being that threatening, but I know a few neighborhoods away are not that cool. Check out the site below.

Good Brighton resource:
http://www.dhke.com/CRJ/brighton.html

my relatives live by the summit stop.. day time railfaning is fine but i would not railfan at night there other then rushhour when theres people and poilce around the stop. brighton park can be sketchy too and prolly somewhat worse then summit. All towns after summit are safer spots

Summit would be the first stop west of the IC's Glenn yard?

jg greenwood wrote:Summit would be the first stop west of the IC's Glenn yard?

That is correct...

doepack wrote:

jg greenwood wrote:Summit would be the first stop west of the IC's Glenn yard?

That is correct...

Thanks for the information guys. I worked in Chicago in 2000/2001. After 9/11 I was cut back to the ground for a short while. I was called to work as a flagman at Summit, wasn't sure if I my old memory was correct.

Summit is going to be full of small houses and apartments with pretty much the same to the south, industry to the north and west, and Midway Airport to the east.

The lowest crime rates on the HC from lowest to highest rank something like:

Lemont
Willow Springs
Lockport
Summit
Joliet

In comparison, crime rates in Summit are about two-thirds of the national average. Joliet is slightly above the average. Lemont is something like a quarter of the national average, but you're definately not going to find home/rent prices close to that of Summit in Lemont or probably even Willow Springs.

Demographics here: http://www.city-data.com/city/Summit-Illinois.html