In Metra's zone-based fare system, Lake Bluff is in zone 4.

As of 2018, Lake Bluff is the 80th busiest of Metra's 236 non-downtown stations, with an average of 647 weekday boardings.

The current station was built in 1904, and previously served the Chicago and North Western Railway before it was bought out by Union Pacific Railroad in 1995.

Union Pacific has a railyard in Waukegan that services Metra trains as well as their own.

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