Metra's Union Pacific North Line trains go south to Ogilvie Transportation Center in Chicago and as far north as Kenosha, Wisconsin.

In Metra's zone-based fare schedule, Kenilworth is in zone 3.

As of 2018, Kenilworth is the 98th busiest of Metra's 236 non-downtown stations, with an average of 501 weekday boardings.

It is also across the street from the Kenilworth Village Hall, which has the Green Bay Trail in the front yard.

The station was built in 1891 by the Chicago and North Western Railway to a design by architect Franklin Pierce Burnham of the firm Edbrooke and Burnham.