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Parent | Regional Transportation Authority |
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Founded | 1983 |
Headquarters | Arlington Heights, Illinois |
Locale | Northeastern Illinois |
Service area | Cook, Lake, Will, Kane, McHenry, and DuPage Counties |
Service type | Bus service, paratransit |
Routes | 218 |
Fleet | 792 buses 616 vans 440 owned vehicles in paratransit service 132 community vehicles[1] |
Daily ridership | 78,800 (weekdays, Q2 2024)[2] |
Annual ridership | 20,085,800 (2023)[3] |
Fuel type | Diesel, Diesel-Electric, CNG |
Executive Director | Melinda Metzger |
Website | www |
Pace is the suburban bus and regional paratransit division of the Regional Transportation Authority serving the Chicago metropolitan area. It was created in 1983 by the RTA Act, which established the formula that provides funding to the CTA, Metra, and Pace. The various agencies providing bus service in the Chicago suburbs were merged under the Suburban Bus Division, which rebranded as Pace in 1984. In 2022, Pace had 18.041 million riders.[4]
Pace is headquartered in Arlington Heights, Illinois and is governed by a 13-member Board of Directors, 12 of which are current and former suburban mayors. The remaining director is the Commissioner of the Chicago Mayor's Office for People with Disabilities, who represents the city's paratransit riders.[5]