The station replaced two smaller waiting rooms on the east side of Villa Park.

Realtors Ballard & Pottinger would offer free railway trips to the station on Sundays to show off properties in the local region.

Villa Avenue Train Station closed on July 3, 1957, due to the decline of the CA&E.

Today the station is the headquarters of the Villa Park Historical Society Museum.

[2] The building was designed by Arthur U. Gerber, staff-architect of Samuel Insull who owned the CA&E at the time.