Trains go south to Ogilvie Transportation Center and as far north as Kenosha, Wisconsin.

As of 2018, Wilmette was the 18th busiest of Metra's 236 non-downtown stations, with an average of 1,653 weekday boardings.

[1] The station is located at Green Bay Road and Washington Avenue in Wilmette's central business district.

The closest CTA Purple Line station is Linden, about a mile away.

In 1875, it took 30 minutes to get to Chicago (about the same as now), and the fare was 11 cents (adult one-way tickets cost $3.05 in 2006)[2] and $5.50 as of February 2018.