FOR MORE INFORMATION:

Office of Coal Development

Illinois Department of Commerce
and Economic Opportunity

620 East Adams St.
Springfield, IL 62701
PH/ 217.782.6370
TDD/ 800.785.6055
FAX/ 217.558.2647

About Mattoon

When you combine the geology, infrastructure, location and transportation advantages Mattoon has to offer, there is no better location to host FutureGen.

	August 2006: U.S. Senator Dick Durbin discusses the project at a community meeting.

Mattoon is located in east central Illinois equidistant from Chicago, St. Louis and Indianapolis. With nearby roads, railways, rivers, and airports, the region boasts the most advanced multi-modal transportation network in the United States. Mattoon is also in close proximity to oil refineries and hydrogen customers who can share in the success of FutureGen.

Coles County is the home of Eastern Illinois State University and Community College. The region also contains two major state universities that lead in the fields of geology – the University of Illinois Champaign-Urbana which is home to the Illinois Institute of Natural Resource Sustainability and Illinois State Geological Survey, and Southern Illinois University Carbondale, home of SIU Coal Research Center.