Gilman, IL (GLM)

Ticket Revenue

FY 2011

$50,308

Station Ridership

FY 2011

2,758

Note: Fiscal year is from
October through September.

The unstaffed Gilman stop is a modern modular bus-style shelter on a concrete platform. As part of Amtrak’s American Recovery and Reinvestment Act Security and Life Safety Projects, Gilman is scheduled to receive a new wheelchair lift, at estimated cost of $14,000, as well as new tactile edging to the existing concrete platform, estimate to cost $65,000.

Iroquois County in central Illinois, which surrounds Gilman and its township, Douglas, was established in 1833 from parts of other counties. The name of the county comes from the former confederacy of six Native American peoples: Mohawk, Oneida, Seneca, Onondaga, Cayuga and Tuscarora. While these were originally settled along the Hudson River Valley in New York State, the name was given to the river stretching 120 miles between Jasper County, IN and the Kankakee River in Illinois—and thus to the county. Douglas Township was formed from Onarga Township in May of 1858.

The Illinois Central joined the two branches of the large Y of its lines at Gilman in 1871, joining the Gilman, Clinton and Springfield, of which it gained control in 1877.

This small farming community remains largely rural, its skyline dominated by the huge grain elevators. The Cargill elevator alone can store up to 8 million bushels of corn or soybeans.

A major festivity in this community is the Old Boys and Old Girls Reunion which has been ongoing since 1886, held every five years since 1900.

Amtrak provides neither ticketing nor baggage services at this facility.

Gilman is served by four daily trains.