Chicago High Speed Rail Hub

I found an article recently on the Chicago Tribune website, discussing plans for a new station next to the existing Union station for high speed rail.

*Note: This station design was from a contest and currently not planned to be constructed.

This is what the new station would look like:



This station kind of reminds of the new main train station in Berlin (in German, the Hauptbahnhof) or even the proposed new main train station in Stuttgart. (sorry the site is in German, but it has cool pictures). Also, other designs submitted for the train station in Chicago can be found here.

Just think, you could take a high speed train (we're talking over 100 mph) from Milwaukee, Madison, or Minneapolis and arrive at that station in downtown Chicago.