River Station Building

Built in 1891 as the Rock Island Depot, this riverfront building served 32 daily trains at its peak and hosted the "Peoria Rocket" passenger line to Chicago for 42 years, until passenger service ended in 1978. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places, the building's upper floors sat vacant for decades after the trains stopped before the whole structure was eventually restored into 57 units of low-income and assisted-living housing — Illinois's first LEED-Gold National Register building. During its long vacant years and since, people working and living in the building have reported flickering lights, a jukebox found mysteriously flipped inside its casing, televisions turning themselves on after hours, and an unshakeable sense of presence in the stairwells.