Currently under Restoration.
www.oregondepot.org

the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad built a new passenger station at Oregon in 1914. Located on the Aurora Division of the CB&Q the Oregon depot replaced an older one, part of which would still be used for freight storage. Looking more like an alpine chalet, the station represented a modern design with all the modern features of a building built at the start of World War I. The exterior was completed with pressed brick, stucco panels, both accented by stone trimmings and a large overhanging tile roof.
Built at a cost of $18,000 by T.S. Leake & Co. of Chicago, the interior boasted a 50x22 foot general waiting room in the center of the station. A separate men’s smoking room / rest room and woman’s waiting area / rest room comprise one wing. The baggage room and ticket office constitutes the other wing. Both are 34x25 feet in size. The interior was finished with an enamel brick wainscot to a height of five feet and plastered for the remainder. The ceiling was plastered and panelled with beams. The floors were tiled throughout.
Passengers would enter through the doors at the center of the station from Collins Street and exit on the other side onto an expansive brick platform and walkway to awaiting trains.
The station was modified in 1930 to make the baggage room windows match the other full size windows. This was prompted by changes in the interior to further subdivide the baggage room, or maybe, just to have the windows match. The early windows in the baggage room were less than half the height and were located along the upper window line.
...In October of 1970, President Nixon signed an act creating the National Railroad Passenger Corporation that in May 1971, opened the nationwide passenger service known as Amtrak. Sadly, Amtrak's timetable did not include Oregon, Illinois. The era of passenger trains through Oregon was history.
After modifying the depot's interior, the Burlington Northern continued to use the structure for office space until 1986, when the property was sold to the city...for the grand sum of one dollar.
In spite of its denigrated use as a repository for unclaimed stolen bicycles and a variety of other castoff items, the depot was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1997.
But as the structure continued to show signs of human neglect and weather beating, it became apparent that action was needed if this piece of history was to be preserved. And people responded.
In the summer of 2001, with financial assistance from the city and several private donors, a hearty group of local volunteers began the Oregon Depot Restoration Project.

Reprinted from the Oregon Depot website and the National Model Railroad Assn website, thank you.