For the ninth time in the last decade, Amtrak's Hiawatha Service between
Milwaukee and Chicago set a calendar year ridership record.
Last year's ridership of the passenger rail line totaled 832,500
compared to 823,163 the year before, which was the first time the
Hiawatha Service surpassed 800,000.
Amtrak schedules seven round trips between Milwaukee's Intermodal
Station and Chicago's Union Station Monday through Saturday and six on
Sunday with stops at Mitchell International Airport, Sturtevant, near
Racine and Glenview, Ill.
According to Amtrak's 2012 fiscal year data, the Hiawatha Service is the
busiest Amtrak corridor in the Midwest and the sixth busiest in the
nation. Monthly ridership records were set last year in January,
February, March, April, June, August, September and October.
The Hiawatha Service is operated by Amtrak and jointly funded by
Wisconsin and Illinois.
