Feel free to phone or email us for additional information/advice about the utility companies described here. The pricing and options described in what follows were current as of June 2007.
Link to local bus route maps and schedules.
Ameren Illinois supplies both gas and electric service: www.ameren.com/illinois/csc/start-stop-transfer or 1-800-755-5000.
Illinois-American Water supplies water service 1-800-422-2782 or https://movein.amwater.com/#/anonymous
If moving in during the summer, you should try to make arrangements with the above two companies (as applicalbe ot your house or apartment) at least 10 days in advance to start service. At other times of the year 2-3 days is adequate.
For high speed internet service, if not included with your place, here are three possible options:
- AT&T (www.att.com)
- Comcast (www.comcast.com)
- i3 Broadband (https://i3broadband.com/internet/
(a) you can get 250mb speed which is adequate.
(b) Rather than get the pods they they sell, a store bought router is fine. I use a Netgear AC1000 R6080 router which can be purchased from Netgear or Walmart
For those renting single family houses from us, garbage collection is by any of several private companies. Here is a list from the City of Urbana, prices subject to change. Most of these serveboth Urbana and Champaign. We personally use ABC Sanitary and Mel's Disposal, but we doubt there is much difference between these and the others.