• Commonwealth Edison, commonly known by syllabic abbreviation as ComEd, is the largest electric utility in Illinois, and the primary electric provider...
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  • McDermott Will & Emery, remaining there until 1998. Pramaggiore joined Commonwealth Edison (ComEd) as an attorney focused on deregulation and was named senior...
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    Mary Lincoln Isham. For Isham's trust, he deposited 375 shares of Commonwealth Edison stock worth slightly more than $38,000 (equivalent to $689,000 in...
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  • imposed a 30 percent tax on most sub-bituminous coal mined there. The Commonwealth Edison Company and other utility companies argued, in part, that the Montana...
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    owns six regulated utilities: Atlantic City Electric (New Jersey), Commonwealth Edison (Illinois), PECO Energy Company (Pennsylvania), Baltimore Gas and...
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  • Corporation was an American energy holding company formed in 1994 from Commonwealth Edison after executives considered a corporate image makeover. The holding...
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  • Commonwealth Edison company. Although Klein did not buy insurance, he was impressed by Upton and offered him a job, which Upton accepted. At Edison,...
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  • Railway (ex-Wabash Railroad). In 1905 the Chicago Edison Company (the predecessor of Commonwealth Edison Company, the Chicago electric utility, now part...
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    moved to Chicago to begin his career with the Chicago Edison Co. (now known as Commonwealth Edison). He worked in various areas throughout his career, including...
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    Samuel Insull (category Edison Pioneers)
    utility, the Commonwealth Electric Light & Power Co. In 1907, Insull's two companies formally merged to create the Commonwealth Edison Co. During a Chicago...
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    Subsequently, he moved to Chicago and became president of Chicago Edison (Commonwealth Edison). Insull selected the architecture firm Graham, Anderson, Probst...
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  • Illinois) was president (1964–1980), CEO and chairman (1973–1980) of Commonwealth Edison. Ayers served as chairman of the Board of Trustees of Northwestern...
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    east of the Rock River. The reactor buildings were constructed by Commonwealth Edison and house two Westinghouse Four-Loop pressurized water reactors,...
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    Crosstown Expressway, and protesting the uncontrolled air pollution Commonwealth Edison was pouring into Chicago's air—more sulfur pollution than all other...
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    Interconnection due to over-frequency relay operations. In May 2004, Commonwealth Edison (ComEd) joined PJM as a separate balancing authority operating under...
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  • Commonwealth Edison Co. v. Montana, 453 U.S. 609 (1981), is a 6-to-3 ruling by the Supreme Court of the United States that held that a severance tax in...
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    allowed private companies to own and operate nuclear facilities, Commonwealth Edison contracted with General Electric to design, construct, and place...
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    Power Station was the third dual-reactor nuclear power plant in the Commonwealth Edison (ComEd) network and served Chicago and the northern quarter of Illinois...
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    company. Their first customer, the Federal Electric division of Commonwealth Edison, ordered 100 machines, but a fault in the gear transmission led the...
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    tradition for more than three decades." Samuel Insull, founder of Commonwealth Edison, began purchasing land south of Libertyville in 1906. He eventually...
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    with a radio antennae-equipped gothic tower that formerly housed Commonwealth Edison garages and warehouses, then Warshawsky & Sons JC Whitney automobile...
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    northern Illinois with electricity. The plant was originally built by Commonwealth Edison company, and subsequently transferred to Com Ed's parent company...
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    middle school, and high school facilities. These payments made by Commonwealth Edison have since decreased along with the impact they once had.[citation...
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    many years as a member of the board of directors for the company Commonwealth Edison. In 2018, he unsuccessfully sought the Democratic Party nomination...
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    Metropolitan Area on the overnight of the 14–15, with over 500,000 Commonwealth Edison customers losing power. 99% of these outages were resolved by 7:30 p...
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    service October 2, 1903. It was built by the predecessor to Commonwealth Edison, Chicago Edison Company, whose Chairman was Samuel Insull and Chief Engineer...
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    letters of KYW. At first, it was jointly operated by Westinghouse and Commonwealth Edison, with Westinghouse later taking over as sole operator. Through the...
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    the Anderson Electric Car Company of Detroit in 1916, then sold to Commonwealth Edison of Chicago in 1920, and last to York & Towne in 1933. In addition...
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    company that generates the electricity transmitted by its subsidiary Commonwealth Edison, donated $5.5 million for the pavilions. Chicago Tribune architecture...
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  • Steamer, the most popular production steam-powered car. 1903 (1903): Commonwealth Edison Fisk Generating Station opens in Chicago, using 32 Babcock & Wilcox...
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