Public utilities provide electric, gas, water or telephone service to customers in a specified area. Utilities have a duty to provide safe and adequate service on reasonable terms to anyone who lives within the service area on without discriminating between customers. Because most utilities operate in near monopolistic conditions, they can be heavily regulated by local, state, and federal authorities. Generally, the local and state agencies are called Public Service Commissions (PSC) or Public Utility Commissions (PUC). Municipal Utilities and Rural Electric Cooperatives may be unregulated though.
Eola is an unincorporated community in DuPage County, Illinois, United States. Eola is located near the western border of DuPage County just north of the BNSF railroad and is completely surrounded by the city limits of Aurora. The community is the site of a BNSF Railway yard, and Metra's BNSF Railway Line passes through the community but does not stop there. A potential station would open on the STAR Line to transfer with the BNSF Line.