• 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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    Mary Lincoln Isham. For Isham's trust, he deposited 375 shares of Commonwealth Edison stock worth slightly more than $38,000 (equivalent to $668,000 in...
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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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  • 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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  • 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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    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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  • 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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  • Edison, California, USA Edison, Georgia, USA Edison, Nebraska, USA Edison, New Jersey, USA Edison, Ohio, USA Edison, Washington (state), USA 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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    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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    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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  • 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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    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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    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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    controls, and personnel training for the Dresden Nuclear Power Plant, a Commonwealth Edison station built in Illinois five years later. The plant was originally...
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  • a Scottish-American businessman who led Marshall Field & Co. and Commonwealth Edison. He also held directorships at the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago...
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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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  • 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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    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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    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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    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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  • Burnett Company was billing $100 million annually. Allstate (1957) Commonwealth Edison (1954) First Brands (1961) General Motors Oldsmobile (1967) Green...
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    # Employer # of Employees 1 Mc Afee, LLC 417 2 Clayco, Inc 412 3 Commonwealth Edison Group 301 4 Village of Villa Park 225 5 First Student 191...
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    A Commonwealth Edison substation in Romeoville, next to the Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal...
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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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    Edison screw (ES) is a standard lightbulb socket for electric light bulbs. It was developed by Thomas Edison (1847–1931), patented in 1881, and was licensed...
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  • Cotter was purchased by and became a wholly owned subsidiary of Commonwealth Edison in 1975. GA acquired Cotter in early 2000. Heathgate Resources Pty...
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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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