TRANSPORTATION UTILITIES

TRANSPORTATION & UTILITES

Perfectly situated just 16 miles west of downtown Chicago, Elmhurst embodies the real estate mantra of “locaon, locaon, locaon.” Serving as the eastern doorway in DuPage County, Elmhurst stands at the crossroads of Interstate Highway 290 and Illinois Toll Roads 294 and 88, with quick access to Toll Roads 355 and 190 to the west and north, respecvely, and Interstate 55 to the south. York Street (commonly called York Road), the city’s main thoroughfare, runs through the heart of Elmhurst north from Roosevelt Road (Route 38) and south to Grand Avenue. Route 83 (Kingery Highway) and North Avenue (Route 64) intersect near Elmhurst’s northwest border, providing north-south and east-west passages, respecvely. ¢ PLAINS, TRAIN AND BUSES The Regional Transportaon Authority (RTA) provides public bus and rapid transit service throughout Chicagoland by way of the Chicago Transit Authority (CTA), Metra commuter rail system and Pace suburban bus. Metra’s Union Pacific West line in Elmhurst is No. 1 in shuttling commuters and passengers to and from Chicago and Elburn and points in between. Scheduled around-theclock, trains depart from Elmhurst’s downtown staon. Pace operates daily bus routes from the downtown Metra staon to northwest Elmhurst (Route 642), North Business Park (Route 645) and Elmhurst Memorial Healthcare’s south Elmhurst campus (Route 332). Dial-a-ride services, vanpools and special-event buses also are available through Pace. A trio of airports—O’Hare Internaonal (15 minutes north), Midway Internaonal Airport (30 minutes southeast) and DuPage County Airport (30 minutes west)—service businesses and pleasure travelers. ¢ GAS, ELECTRIC AND PHONES AT&T provides telephone service based on a 30-day billing period and also is an internet service provider. Comcast provides cable television service based on a 30day billing period and also is an internet service provider. ComEd’s electrical service is based on a 30-day billing period. New customers may be charged a deposit. Elmhurst residents and businesses can parcipate in the city’s electrical aggregaon program with a third-party supplier, but ComEd’s grid sll provides the electrical power. Nicor Gas is the ulity serving the northern third of Illinois.

PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION DIRECTORY

REGIONAL TRANSPORTATION AUTHORITY (RTA) 175 West Jackson Boulevard, Suite 1550, Chicago, IL 60604 312-913-3200 312-836-7000 (Travel Info) rtachicago.com

METRA UNION PACIFIC 630-322-6677 Metrarail.com Elmhurst passenger train staon 128 West First Street 630-834-2923 Hours: Weekdays, 5:30 a.m. to 1 p.m.

PACE BUS AT&T COMCAST 847-364-7223 pacebus.com

UTILITIES DIRECTORY

AIRPORT SERVICE CHICAGO AIRPORT SYSTEM 800-832-6352 flychicago.com O’HARE INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT 10000 West O’Hare Avenue, Chicago, IL 60666 773-686-3700 chicago-ord.com

MIDWAY INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT 5700 South Cicero Avenue, Chicago, IL 60638 773-838-0600 chicago-mdw.com

DUPAGE COUNTY 2700 Internaonal Drive, West Chicago, IL 60185 630-584-2211 dupageairport.com

225 West Wesley, Wheaton, IL 60148 800-244-4444 att.com

AIRPORT 155 West Industrial Drive 630-501-1471 comcast.com

COMED 1N423 Swift Road, Lombard, IL 60148 800-334-7661 exeloncorp.com

NICOR GAS Central Region Office 90 North Finley Road, Glen Ellyn, IL 60137 888-642-6748 nicorgas.com

VISITOR & TOURISM TOURISM VITAL TO ELMHURST’S ECOMONY

Guests checking into any of ¢ EXPLORE ELMHURST Elmhurst’s four hotels—Courtyard The City of Elmhurst partners with by Marriott, Extended Stay stakeholder hotels, businesses and America, Clarion Hotel Conference organizaons to ence visitors and Center and SpringHill Suites—not only tourists to “Explore Elmhurst” through enjoy a great stay, they also contribute to mutually beneficial promoon of the city’s visitor and tourism iniaves. the city’s arts and culture, fesvals, Elmhurst funds a variety of acvies museums, parades, and special events to enhance tourism, cultural life and and attracons. commerce using a poron of the monies Aside from museum patrons, visitors generated by a room rental tax (4%), as come to Elmhurst in large numbers for much as $600,000 annually. the Memorial Day and St. Patrick’s Day Hotel/motel tax revenue generates parades, Art in the Park, Elmhurst College funding for both the City’s Explore Jazz Fesval, Dan Gibbons Turkey Trot, Elmhurst iniaves such as the summer Elmhurst Cycling Classic, Rock The Block, Explore Elmhurst trolley campaign Elmhurst Farmers’ Market and more. and Community Grant Program, which provides financial support for the museums, parades and special events. ¢ DUMORE IN DUPAGE The DuPage Convenon & Visitors Bureau’s mission is to acvely promote According to the Illinois Office of DuMore DuPage to individual travelers Tourism, every $1 spent on meeng our and meeng/event planners as an visitor promoon generates $9 collected encing desnaon for both business in state and local tax revenue. and leisure travel in order to enhance the In 2018, DuPage County generated $2.72 economic fiber of the County. billion (up 4.6%) in tourism revenue— As cerfied by the State of Illinois Bureau second only to Cook County and the of Tourism, the DCVB promotes DuPage’s City of Chicago—netting $174 million mul-billion dollar tourism industry (up 8.8%) in tax receipts for the State and markets the accommodaons, of Illinois and $48 million (up 3.1%) attracons, events, dining, shopping, benefing local municipalies, Elmhurst and sports and recreaon for its 38 among them. DuPage’s tourism industry community and 100-plus business employs some 23,500 workers (up 9%) members. earning 3.7%). a total payroll of $746 million (up At the September 2019 DCVB Annual Meeng in Oak Brook, Execuve Director Tourism in Illinois also ranks as one of the Beth Marchetti officially unveiled state’s largest employers, with 335,500 programs within the organizaon’s jobs in 2017 directly related to meengs strategic plan, tle “GPS:ATourism and visitor industry. Roadmap,” designed to generate $650 million in new visitor spending by the year 2025. Last year, the DCVB created the DuPage Sports Commission (DSC), launched a new website, produced new markeng videos and completed Desnaon Markeng Accreditaon Program (DMAP) cerficaon. The DSC is responsible for recruing, retaining and facilitang sporng events. Between 2014 and 2017, our County hosted more than 60 sports tourism events—professional golf tournaments, pro cycling races and youth bowling tournaments among them—attracng 60,000 visitors and generang $12.5 million in direct spending. Product Development and Sport Advisory committees also were established “to further strengthen the DCVB’s posion within the business travel market and grow awareness of the desnaon throughout the leisure visit market. In addion to expanding sports event tourism, DCVB is working to increase the number of meengs. Now in its fifth year, the Municipal Grant Program has become an essenal tool in securing business meengs. DCVB also has developed 11 easily idenfiable and memorable nature experiences, branded as Natural Wanders, to appeal to the leisure visitor. Adopted back in 2016, DCVB’s strategic plan is designed to Grow, Prosper and Share (GPS) tourism countywide.

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