Electricity
Commonwealth Edison is a unit of Chicago-based Exelon Corporation (NYSE: EXC), one the nation's largest electric utilities with nearly $15 billion in revenues and a customer base of five million. ComEd provides service to more than 3.4 million customers across Northern Illinois, or 70 percent of the state's population.
Position your company for success in the region that means business: Northern Illinois. As the electric distribution utility serving Northern Illinois, ComEd is committed to helping area businesses thrive. Our Community and Economic Development Team is here to support the power of your business. We provide in-depth site selection information, critical utility analysis and access to Illinois business resources. Whatever your business needs - from demographic reports to available sites and buildings to support for entering the global market or managing your energy usage - ComEd offers the insight and assistance that can help to ensure your long-term success.
For additional information on these and other ComEd services please contact:
www.exeloncorp.com/econdev
Natural Gas
Nicor Gas has provided reliable gas service in northern Illinois for more than 45 years. With a customer base in excess of 2 million, Nicor Gas is the one of the largest gas utilities in the nation. Its service area covers approximately 17,000 square miles and maintains more than 29,500 miles of main.
Nicor Gas has built a reputation for reliability and value. Connection to seven interstate pipelines with access to all major gas producing areas in the country and an extensive system of underground gas storage have facilitated a robust gas commodity market. Customers enjoy the benefits of competitively priced gas commodity and extremely reliable delivery. Combined with Nicor's flexible rates and the option to choose alternate commodity suppliers, customers can rely on the experts at Nicor Gas.
For additional information regarding services provided by Nicor, visit their web site at www.nicor.com or contact:
Carmen Morales Community Relations Director 3000 E. Cass St. Joliet, IL 60432 (815) 740-4100 ext. 230 cmorales@nicor.com
Telecommunications
AT&T Illinois and its predecessor companies have provided the citizens of Will County with local telephone service for more than 100 years. Today, with over 200,000 employees, AT&T Illinois is a global company providing a host of telecommunication services including local and long distance telephone and data, cellular, paging, Internet and more. AT&T Illinois is committed to enhancing its state-of-the-art communications infrastructure in Will County and throughout its entire thirteen-state region. In Illinois alone, AT&T Illinois invested nearly $4 billion in its infrastructure over the past four years. AT&T Illinois specialists can work with new, expanding or existing businesses to review their telecommunications and data needs. AT&T Illinois connects more than 20 billion local telephone calls a year in Illinois and handles approximately 4.5 million installation requests.
For additional information regarding services provided by AT&T Illinois, visit their website at www.att.com or contact:
Pace Suburban Bus is the premier suburban transit provider, quickly moving people to work and school safely and efficiently. The backbone of Chicago's suburbs, Pace serves tens of thousands of daily riders with more fixed bus routes, vanpools and Dial-a-Ride programs.
Pace covers 3,500 square miles and is the one of the largest bus services in North America.
Pace was created by reform legislation in late 1983, and began operating throughout Chicago's six-county suburbs (DuPage, Kane, Lake, McHenry, Will and Cook Counties) in mid-1984. Pace is the suburban bus division of the Regional Transportation Authority. The RTA is a financial review, oversight and planning agency for Pace, Metra and the Chicago Transit Authority. Pace is governed by a 13 member Board of Directors comprised of current and former suburban mayors and the Commissioner of the Mayor’s Office for People with Disabilities for the City of Chicago. There are 1,490 Pace employees serving a 5.2 million population service area with 11 Park-n-Ride facilities, 122 Metra stations, 25 CTA stations, 240 fixed bus routes, 363 paratransit buses, and 700 vanpools.
One of Pace's biggest successes is its Vanpool Incentive Program, which debuted in 1991. Groups save by commuting to work in a van that is owned, insured and maintained by Pace, but driven by a vanpool participant. It is the second-largest vanpool program in the country.
Pace has also improved transit by installing bike racks on every bus, and making its fleet wheelchair accessible.
Waste and Environmental Services
Waste Management, Inc. (NYSE: WMI) is the leading provider of comprehensive waste and environmental services in North America. The company is strongly committed to a foundation of financial strength, operating excellence and professionalism.
Phone: (815) 773-1196 Fax: (815) 725-4839
NuWay Disposal is part of Homewood Disposal. A family owned business for over 50 years, Homewood Disposal has grown from a small scavenger company to a full range solid waste, transportation, recycling, and disposal service company.
Homewood, IL 60430-4608 Phone: (708) 798-1004 Fax: (708) 798-7193
We operate 400 collection companies in 40 states and Puerto Rico and provide top quality services to commercial, industrial, municipal and residential customers. Republic serves millions of residential customers under contracts with more than 3,000 municipalities for waste collection and residential services.
For additional information on these and other Allied Waste/Republic Services please visit their website at www.republicservices.com or contact: