S-3ASR

As Filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on May 10, 2006

Registration No. 333-

UNITED STATES SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

WASHINGTON, D. C. 20549

FORM S-3

REGISTRATION STATEMENT
UNDER
THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933

Commonwealth Edison Company

(Exact Name of Registrant as Specified in Its Charter)

Illinois	36-0938600
(State or Other Jurisdiction of Incorporation or Organization)	(I.R.S. Employer Identification No.)

440 South LaSalle Street
Suite 3300
Chicago, Illinois 60605-1028
(312) 394-4321
(Address, Including Zip Code, and Telephone Number,
Including Area Code, of Registrant’s Principal Executive Offices)

Robert K. McDonald
Senior Vice President, Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer
440 South LaSalle Street
Suite 3300
Chicago, Illinois 60605-1028
(312) 394-4321
(Name, Address, Including Zip Code, and Telephone Number,
Including Area Code, of Agent for Service)

Copy To:
Darryl M. Bradford, Esq.
Vice President and General Counsel
Commonwealth Edison Company
440 South LaSalle Street
Suite 3300
Chicago, Illinois 60605-1028

     Approximate date of commencement of proposed sale to the public: From time to time after this Registration Statement becomes effective.

     If the only securities being registered on this Form are being offered pursuant to dividend or interest reinvestment plans, please check the following box. o

     If any of the securities being registered on this Form are to be offered on a delayed or continuous basis pursuant to Rule 415 under the Securities Act of 1933, other than securities offered only in connection with dividend or interest reinvestment plans, check the following box. þ

     If this Form is filed to register additional securities for an offering pursuant to Rule 462(b) under the Securities Act, please check the following box and list the Securities Act registration statement number of the earlier effective registration statement for the same offering. o                     

     If this Form is a post-effective amendment filed pursuant to Rule 462(c) under the Securities Act, check the following box and list the Securities Act registration statement number of the earlier effective registration statement for the same offering. o                     

     If this Form is a registration statement pursuant to General Instruction I.D. or a post-effective amendment thereto that shall become effective upon filing with the Commission pursuant to Rule 462(e) under the Securities Act, check the following box. þ

     If this Form is a post-effective amendment to a registration statement filed pursuant to General Instruction I.D. filed to register additional securities or additional classes of securities pursuant to Rule 413(b) under the Securities Act, check the following box. o

Calculation of Registration Fee

	Amount to be Registered/ Proposed Maximum		Amount of
Title of Each Class of Securities to Be	Offering Price Per Unit/ Proposed Maximum		Registration
Registered	Aggregate Offering Price		Fee
Senior Debt Securities		(1)		(2)

(1)

An indeterminate aggregate initial offering price or number of Senior Debt Securities to be offered at indeterminate prices is being registered.

(2)

In accordance with Rules 456(b) and 457(r) under the Securities Act, the Registrant is deferring payment of all of the registration fee, except for $21,160 that has already been paid with respect to $230,000,000 aggregate initial offering price of securities that were previously registered pursuant to Registration Statement No. 333-99363 and were not sold thereunder. Pursuant to Rule 457(p) under the Securities Act, such unutilized filing fee may be applied to the filing fee payable pursuant to this registration statement.

PROSPECTUS

Commonwealth Edison Company

First Mortgage Bonds
Notes

     Commonwealth Edison Company may offer and sell, from time to time, first mortgage bonds and unsecured notes in one or more offerings. We may offer the securities simultaneously or at different times, in one or more separate series, in amounts, at prices and on terms to be determined at or prior to the time or times of sale.

     This prospectus provides you with a general description of these securities. We will describe the specific terms of the securities, together with the terms of the offering of those securities, including the initial offering price and our net proceeds from their sale, in supplements to this prospectus. You should read both this prospectus and any applicable prospectus supplements carefully before you invest.

     Investing in these securities involves risks. See “Risk Factors” under Item 1A of our most recently filed Annual Report on Form 10-K and under Part II, Item 1A in any of our subsequently filed Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q.

     Neither the Securities and Exchange Commission nor any state securities commission has approved or disapproved of the securities or determined if this prospectus is truthful or complete. Any representation to the contrary is a criminal offense.

     We may sell the securities through agents we may designate from time to time or to or through underwriters. We will set forth in the applicable prospectus supplement the name of the underwriters or agents, the discount or commission received by them from us as compensation, our other expenses for the offering and sale of these securities and the net proceeds we received from the sale.

The date of this prospectus is May 10, 2006.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Forward-Looking Statements	1
Commonwealth Edison Company	1
Exelon Corporation	2
Ratio of Earnings to Fixed Charges	2
Use of Proceeds	2
Description of Bonds	3
Description of Notes	9
Book-Entry System	14
Plan of Distribution	17
Legal Matters	18
Experts	18
Where You Can Find More Information	18
Supplemental Indenture dated as of April 23, 2003
Supplemental Indenture dated as of September 10, 2003
Supplemental Indenture dated as of November 10, 2003
Supplemental Indenture dated as of December 5, 2003
Opinion of Sidley Austin LLP
Statement Re Computation of Ratios of Earnings to Fixed Charges
Consent of PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP
Form T-1 Statement of Eligibility and Qualification
Form T-2 Statement
Form T-1 Statement of Eligibility and Qualification

ABOUT THIS PROSPECTUS

     This prospectus is part of a registration statement that we filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission, or SEC, utilizing a “shelf” registration process. Under this shelf registration process, we may, from time to time, sell any combination of the securities described in this prospectus in one or more offerings. This prospectus provides you with a general description of the securities we may offer. Each time we sell securities, we will describe in a supplement to this prospectus specific information about the terms of that offering. The applicable prospectus supplement may also add, update or change information contained in this prospectus. If there is any inconsistency between the information in this prospectus and the prospectus supplement, you should rely on the information in the prospectus supplement. Please carefully read both this prospectus and the applicable prospectus supplement, together with the additional information referred to under the caption “Where You Can Find More Information,” before investing in our securities.

     You should rely only on the information contained or incorporated by reference in this prospectus and the applicable prospectus supplement or in any applicable free writing prospectus that we file with the SEC in connection with an offering of securities under this prospectus. We have not authorized anyone else to provide you with different information. If anyone provides you with different or inconsistent information, you should not rely on it. You should not assume that the information contained in or incorporated by reference in this prospectus or any prospectus supplement or in any such free writing prospectus is accurate as of any date other than the date of such document.

     We are not offering the securities in any state or jurisdiction where the offer or sale is not permitted.

     Unless otherwise indicated or unless the context requires otherwise, all references in this prospectus to “ComEd,” “our company,” “we,” “us,” “our” or similar references mean Commonwealth Edison Company.

FORWARD-LOOKING STATEMENTS

     This prospectus and the documents incorporated or deemed incorporated by reference as described under the heading “Where You Can Find More Information” contain forward-looking statements that are not based on historical facts and are subject to risks and uncertainties. Words such as “believes,” “anticipates,” “expects,” “intends,” “plans,” “predicts” and “estimates” and similar expressions are intended to identify forward-looking statements but are not the only means to identify those statements.

     The factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from the results described in the forward-looking statements include any risk factors discussed in this prospectus and any accompanying prospectus supplement; the factors relating to ComEd discussed in Item 1A, Risk Factors, Item 7, Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations, and Item 8, Financial Statements and Supplementary Data, ComEd, Note 17 of our Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements in our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2005, which is incorporated by reference in this prospectus; and other factors discussed in filings we make with the SEC. You are cautioned not to place undue reliance on these forward-looking statements, which apply only as of the date on the front of this prospectus or, as the case may be, as of the date on which we make any subsequent forward-looking statement that is deemed incorporated by reference. We do not undertake any obligation to update or revise any forward-looking statement to reflect events or circumstances after the date as of which any such forward-looking statement is made.

COMMONWEALTH EDISON COMPANY

     We are a subsidiary of Exelon Corporation and are engaged principally in the purchase and regulated retail and wholesale sale of electricity and distribution and transmission services to a diverse base of residential, commercial, industrial and wholesale customers in northern Illinois. Our traditional retail service territory covers approximately 11,300 square miles and an estimated population of 8 million as of March 31, 2006. The service territory includes the City of Chicago, an area of about 225 square miles with an estimated population of 3 million. We delivered electricity to approximately 3.7 million customers at March 31, 2006.

     During January 2001, our parent corporation, Exelon Corporation, or Exelon, undertook a corporate restructuring to separate its non-regulated, generation and other competitive businesses from its regulated energy delivery businesses. As a result of that restructuring, we no longer own any generation facilities and we entered into a power purchase agreement with Exelon Generation Company, LLC, or Generation, a wholly owned subsidiary of Exelon, to supply us with all of our electric load requirements for customers through 2006. After 2006, we expect to procure the power we need through a reverse-auction process. In January 2006, the Illinois Commerce Commission, or ICC, approved tariffs that would allow us to bill our customers for power costs incurred in the auction process. That order is the subject of pending appeals before the Illinois Appellate Court. We have also filed a rate case with the ICC, which seeks, among other things, to allocate the costs of delivering electricity and to adjust our rates for delivering electricity effective January 2, 2007.

     As a public utility under the Illinois Public Utilities Act, we are subject to regulation by the ICC, including regulation as to rates and charges, issuance of most of our securities, services and facilities, classification of accounts, transactions with affiliated interests, as defined in the Illinois Public Utilities Act, and other matters. As an electric utility under the Federal Power Act, we are also subject to regulation by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission as to transmission rates and certain other aspects of our business, including interconnections and sales of transmission related assets.

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     ComEd was organized in the State of Illinois in 1913 as a result of the merger of Cosmopolitan Electric Company into the original corporation named Commonwealth Edison Company, which was incorporated in 1907. Our principal executive offices are located at 440 South LaSalle Street, Suite 3300, Chicago, Illinois 60605-1820 and our telephone number is (312) 394-4321.

EXELON CORPORATION

     Exelon is a public utility holding company and is the parent corporation for each of us, PECO Energy Company, or PECO, and Generation. Exelon, through its subsidiaries, operates in three reportable segments: ComEd, PECO and Generation.

     Exelon’s principal executive offices are located at 10 South Dearborn Street, Chicago, Illinois 60603 and its telephone number is (312) 394-7398.

RATIO OF EARNINGS TO FIXED CHARGES

     The following table sets forth our ratio of earnings to fixed charges for the periods indicated:

												Three Months
	12 Months Ended											Ended
	December 31,											March 31,
	2001		2002		2003		2004		2005			2005		2006
Earnings to Fixed Charges (a)		2.88		3.48		3.51		4.03		(b	)		2.53		2.11

(a)

For purposes of computing the ratios of earnings to fixed charges: (i) earnings consist of net income before deducting net provisions for income taxes (including deferred taxes and current income taxes applicable to nonoperating activities), investment tax credits deferred and fixed charges; and (ii) fixed charges consist of interest on debt, amortization of debt discount, premium and expense, and the estimated interest component of lease payments and rentals.

(b)

For purposes of the ratio calculation, the deficiency in our earnings to achieve a one-to-one ratio of earnings to fixed charges for 2005 was approximately $315 million. Our earnings for 2005 were negatively impacted by a $1.2 billion non-deductible, non-cash impairment charge we took related to the goodwill originally recorded on our books in connection with our former parent’s merger with PECO. For purposes of calculating our ratio of earnings to fixed charges for the twelve-months ended December 31, 2005, fixed charges were approximately $304 million.

USE OF PROCEEDS

     Unless we indicate otherwise in the applicable prospectus supplement, we intend to use the net proceeds from the sale of the securities for general corporate purposes, including to discharge or refund (by redemption, by purchase on the open market, by purchase in private transactions, by tender offer or otherwise) outstanding long-term debt, to repay outstanding short-term debt (including commercial paper), to finance capital improvements and to supplement working capital. We will describe in the applicable prospectus supplement any specific allocation of the proceeds to a particular purpose that we have made at the date of that prospectus supplement. Pending such uses, we may invest the proceeds in certificates of deposit, United States government securities or other interest-bearing securities. Please refer to our most recently filed Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for information concerning our outstanding long-term debt. See “Where You Can Find More Information.”

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DESCRIPTION OF BONDS

     We will issue each series of bonds under the Mortgage dated as of July 1, 1923, as supplemented from time to time, between us and BNY Midwest Trust Company, as the successor mortgage trustee, and D.G. Donovan, as the co-trustee. We refer to this Mortgage in this prospectus as the “Mortgage” and to BNY Midwest Trust Company as the “Mortgage Trustee.” The terms “lien of Mortgage,” “mortgage date of acquisition,” “permitted lien,” “prior lien,” “prior lien bonds,” “property additions,” and “utilized under the Mortgage” are used in this prospectus with the meanings given to those terms in the Mortgage.

     The Mortgage contains provisions under which substantially all of the properties of our electric utility subsidiary, Commonwealth Edison Company of Indiana, Inc., or the Indiana Company, might be subjected to the lien of the Mortgage, if we should so determine, as additional security for our bonds, whereupon that subsidiary would become a “mortgaged subsidiary,” as defined in the Mortgage. Since we have not as yet made any determination as to causing the Indiana Company to become a mortgaged subsidiary, those provisions of the Mortgage that are summarized below that discuss a mortgaged subsidiary as well as us, relate to us only.

     We have summarized selected provisions of the Mortgage below. However, because this summary is not complete, it is subject to and is qualified in its entirety by reference to the Mortgage. We suggest that you read the complete text of the Mortgage, a copy of which we have incorporated by reference as an exhibit to the registration statement of which this prospectus is a part.

     The following sets forth certain general terms and provisions of the bonds. The particular terms of the series of bonds offered by any prospectus supplement will be described in that prospectus supplement. Any terms of the bonds that are not summarized herein will be described in the applicable prospectus supplement.

Issuance in Global Form

     Unless otherwise indicated in the applicable prospectus supplement, we will initially issue each series of bonds in the form of one or more global bonds, in registered form, without coupons, as described under the caption “Book-Entry System.” The bonds will be issued in denominations of $1,000 and authorized multiples of $1,000. No service charge will be made for any transfer or exchange of any bond, but we may require payment of a sum sufficient to cover any tax or other governmental charge imposed in connection with any transfer of a bond.

     We anticipate that The Depository Trust Company, New York, New York, or DTC, will act as securities depository for the bonds. See “Book-Entry System.” We will describe any differing depository arrangement in the applicable prospectus supplement. For so long as the bonds are issued in book-entry form, payments of principal and interest will be made in immediately available funds by wire transfer to DTC or its nominee. If the bonds are issued in certificated form to a holder other than DTC, payments of principal and interest will be made by check mailed to that holder at that holder’s registered address. Payment of principal of the bonds in certificated form will be made against surrender of those bonds at the office or agency of our company in the City of Chicago, Illinois and an office or agency in the Borough of Manhattan, City of New York. Payment of interest on the bonds will be made to the person in whose name those bonds are registered at the close of business on the record date for the relevant interest payment date. Default interest will be paid in the same manner to holders as of a special record date established in accordance with the Mortgage.

Redemption Provisions

     We will specify in the applicable prospectus supplement any redemption provisions applicable to the series of bonds being offered by that prospectus supplement.

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Security

     The Mortgage is a first mortgage lien on substantially all property and franchises currently owned by us. Our transmission and distribution assets are the principal properties subject to the lien of the Mortgage. In addition, any property and franchises hereafter acquired by us will also become subject to the lien of the Mortgage. The lien of the mortgage does not attach to expressly excepted property, as described in the next paragraph, and property which may be acquired by us subsequent to the filing of a bankruptcy proceeding with respect to us under the Bankruptcy Reform Act of 1978. The lien is also subject to permitted liens, as described below, and, in the case of after-acquired property, liens, if any, existing or placed on that property at the time of acquisition thereof.

     There are expressly excepted from the lien of our Mortgage, whether now owned or hereafter acquired, certain real estate not used in the public utility business, real estate held by us in the name of a nominee, cash and securities not specifically pledged under the Mortgage, receivables, contracts (other than leases), materials and supplies not included in utility plant accounts, merchandise, automobiles, trucks and other transportation equipment and office furniture and equipment.

     We have agreed under the Mortgage to hold legal title to the mortgaged property free and clear of all liens other than permitted liens, as defined in the Mortgage. Permitted liens are generally liens or restrictions that do not materially interfere with our use of the mortgaged property for the conduct of our business. Permitted liens include liens for real estate taxes, assessments and governmental charges that are not delinquent or are being contested in good faith; liens for judgments that are being appealed or whose enforcement has been stayed; rights reserved to or vested in municipalities or public authorities under franchises, grants, licenses or permits held by us; leases; easements, reservations, exceptions, conditions, limitations and restrictions affecting the mortgaged property which do not materially interfere with our use of the mortgaged property; zoning laws and ordinances; and inconsequential defects or irregularities in title that, in the opinion of our counsel, may be properly disregarded. In the event that the Mortgage lien on a particular piece of mortgaged property were to be foreclosed, such property would remain subject to liens for taxes on that property. Other liens on that property, to the extent prior to the lien of the Mortgage and representing monetary obligations, would be entitled to payment from the foreclosure sale proceeds prior to any sums being paid to the holders of the bonds.

     The bonds will rank equally with all bonds, irrespective of series, now or hereafter outstanding under our Mortgage.

Acquisitions of Property Subject to Prior Liens

     We covenant in the Mortgage that we will not acquire any property subject to a prior lien (other than a permitted lien):

• if the principal amount of prior lien bonds outstanding thereunder and under other prior liens upon such prior lien property exceeds 66-2/3% of the fair value of such part of such property as shall consist of property of the character of property additions; and

• unless the net earnings of such property for any twelve-month period within the immediately preceding fifteen-month period shall have been at least two and one-half times the annual interest on all prior lien bonds secured by prior liens on such property.

     We also covenant that we will not transfer all or substantially all of our property to any other corporation, the property of which is subject to a prior lien, unless the property of such other corporation could be acquired by us under the provisions of such covenant with respect to the acquisition of property subject to a prior lien.

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     We covenant in the Mortgage that we will not issue additional prior lien bonds under any prior lien, and that as soon as all prior lien bonds shall cease to be outstanding under any prior lien, we will promptly procure or cause to be procured the cancellation and discharge of that prior lien. We further covenant that upon the discharge of a prior lien we will cause any cash on deposit with the prior lien trustee (other than cash deposited for the payment or redemption of outstanding prior lien bonds) to be deposited with the Mortgage Trustee, except to the extent required to be deposited with the trustee under another prior lien.

Release of Property from Mortgage

     Provided that we are not in default under the Mortgage, the Mortgage allows us to release property from the lien of the Mortgage in connection with its sale or other disposition. Under these provisions, we may obtain the release of mortgaged property by:

• delivering to the Mortgage Trustee specified certificates describing the property to be sold or disposed and the consideration to be received and stating its fair value;

• delivering an opinion of counsel as to compliance with the provisions of the Mortgage governing such release; and

• depositing cash with the Mortgage Trustee in an amount equal to the fair value of the property to be released, subject to reduction or elimination as hereinafter described.

     “Fair value” is defined as the fair value to us of the property in question. Fair value is determined by one of our engineers; however, a determination by an independent engineer is also required if the fair value of the property in question exceeds 1% or more of the outstanding principal amount of the bonds under the Mortgage. The required cash deposit may be reduced, or eliminated entirely, by utilizing net property additions or bondable bond retirements not previously utilized under the Mortgage.

     We have used these provisions from time to time to release substantial amounts of property from the lien of the Mortgage. In December 1999, we obtained the release of our fossil generation assets in connection with their sale to a third party. In January 2001, we obtained the release of, among other things, our nuclear generation assets in connection with their transfer to our affiliate, Generation, as part of the restructuring undertaken by Exelon. In both cases, the releases were accomplished without the deposit of cash due to the availability of sufficient amounts of unutilized bondable bond retirements and net property additions.

Issuance of Additional Bonds

     The Mortgage provides that no bonds may be issued which, as to security, will rank ahead of the bonds that may be sold pursuant to this prospectus but, as indicated below, we may, subject to certain limitations, acquire property subject to prior liens. Nonetheless, subject to the limitations discussed below, we may issue additional bonds under the Mortgage with the same priority as the bonds that may be sold pursuant to this prospectus, including bonds having the same series designation and terms as the bonds that may be sold pursuant to this prospectus, without the approval of the holders of outstanding bonds under the Mortgage, including the holders of any outstanding bonds issued pursuant to this prospectus.

     The aggregate principal amount of other bonds that may be issued under the Mortgage and that, as to security, will rank equally with the bonds that may be sold pursuant to this prospectus is not limited except as indicated below. Additional bonds of any series may be issued, subject to the provisions of the Mortgage, in principal amount equal to:

• 66-2/3% of net property additions not previously utilized under the Mortgage;

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• the amount of cash deposited with the Mortgage Trustee as the basis for the issuance of those bonds; and

• the amount of bondable bond retirements not previously utilized under the Mortgage;

provided, however, that no bonds may be issued on the basis of net property additions or deposited cash, or on the basis of bondable bond retirements if the bonds to be issued bear a higher rate of interest than that borne by the bonds retired or being retired (except when the bonds retired or being retired mature within two years), unless our net earnings for any twelve-month period within the immediately preceding fifteen-month period shall have been equal to at least two and one-half times the annual interest on all bonds then outstanding under the Mortgage, including the bonds then proposed to be issued but not including any bonds then being retired.

     The Mortgage provides that cash deposited with the Mortgage Trustee as a basis for the issuance of bonds shall be:

• paid over to us in an amount, certified to the Mortgage Trustee, equal to 66-2/3% of the amount of net property additions not previously utilized under the Mortgage, or in an amount equal to the amount of bondable bond retirements not previously utilized under the Mortgage, or both, or

• applied to the purchase or redemption of bonds.

     “Net earnings” means our earnings as defined in the Mortgage after deducting all charges except:

• charges for the amortization, write-down or write-off of acquisition adjustments or intangibles;

• property losses charged to operations;

• provisions of income and excess or other profits taxes imposed on income after the deduction of interest charges, or charges made in lieu of those taxes;

• interest charges; and

• amortization of debt and stock discount and expense or premium.

     Any net profit or net loss from merchandising and jobbing is to be deducted from operating expenses or added to operating expenses, as the case may be. Net nonoperating income from property and securities not subject to the lien of the Mortgage may be included in revenues but only to the extent of not more than 10% of the total of such net earnings. No profits or losses on the disposition of property or securities or on the reacquisition of securities shall be included in net earnings. The net earnings calculation under the Mortgage is not affected by certain accounting write-offs related to plant costs.

     Except as set forth above, the Mortgage does not limit the amount of additional bonds which can be issued and it does not contain any restrictions on the issuance of unsecured indebtedness. In addition, the Mortgage does not prohibit a merger or sale of substantially all of our assets or a comparable transaction, unless the lien of the Mortgage is impaired, and does not address the effect on bondholders of a highly leveraged transaction.

     On February 22, 2006, we entered into a $1 billion secured revolving credit agreement with a group of financial institutions maturing on February 20, 2009, and withdrew from the Exelon unsecured credit facilities. The credit agreement enables us to borrow funds and to issue letters of credit from time to time during its term. The credit agreement is secured by bonds issued under our Mortgage. In

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connection with the credit agreement, we have agreed to a restriction on future issuances of bonds under our Mortgage. Specifically, we have agreed to maintain at least $1,750,000,000 of issuance availability (ignoring any “net earnings certificate” requirements) in the form of “property additions” or “bondable bond retirements,” most of which are required to be maintained in the form of “bondable bond retirements.” See the definition of “net earnings” above and the definitions of “bondable bond retirements” and “net property additions” below in “—Property Additions/Bondable Bond Retirements.”

Property Additions/Bondable Bond Retirements

     As of March 31, 2006, the amount of net property additions not utilized under the Mortgage is approximately $528 million. The amount of bondable bond retirements not previously utilized under the Mortgage are approximately $1.865 billion as of March 31, 2006.

     “Bondable bond retirements” means an amount equal to the principal amount of bonds retired by application of funds deposited with the Mortgage Trustee for cancellation, whether or not such deposit of funds or surrender of bonds is pursuant to a sinking fund or purchase fund.

     “Net property additions” means the amount of $50,000,000, plus the cost or fair market value as of the mortgage date of acquisition thereof, whichever is less, of property additions, less all “current provisions for depreciation” made by us after December 1, 1944, after deducting from those current provisions for depreciation the amount of the “renewal fund requirement,” if any, for the year 1945 and subsequent years.

     “Current provisions for depreciation” for any period means the greater of:

• the total of the amounts appropriated by us for depreciation during that period on all property of the character of property additions not subject to a prior lien, increased or decreased, as the case may be, by net salvage value for that period, such amounts not to include, however, provisions for depreciation charged to surplus, charges to income or surplus for the amortization, write-down or write-off of acquisition adjustments or intangibles, property losses charged to operations or surplus, or charges to income in lieu of income and excess or other profits taxes; and

• an amount equal to one-twelfth of 2% for each calendar month of that period (or such lesser percentage, as may, at stated intervals, be certified by an independent engineer as adequate) of the original cost, as of the beginning of that month, of all depreciable property of the character of property additions not subject to a prior lien.

Renewal Fund Requirement

     We covenant in the Mortgage that we will, for each year, pay or cause to be paid to the Mortgage Trustee an amount of cash, as and for a renewal fund, equal to the excess, if any, of current provisions for depreciation for that year over the cost or fair market value as of the mortgage date of acquisition thereof, whichever is less, of property additions for that year, that amount, which will be the renewal fund requirement for that year, to be subject to reduction by an amount equal to the amount, certified to the Mortgage Trustee, of net property additions or bondable bond retirements, or both, not previously utilized under the Mortgage. There was no renewal fund requirement for any of the years 1945 through 1988, 1991, 1992 or 1997 through 2003. There was a $140.7 million renewal fund requirement for 1989, a $1 million requirement for 1990, a $50.9 million requirement for 1993, a $193.6 million requirement for 1994, a $15.0 million requirement for 1995, a $139.9 million requirement for 1996 and a $270.7 million requirement for 2004. In 1989, 1990, 1993, 1994 and 2004, the renewal fund requirement was satisfied by certifying an equivalent amount of net property additions. In 1995 and 1996, the renewal fund requirement was satisfied by certifying an equivalent amount of bondable bond retirements.

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Modification of Mortgage

     In general, modifications or alterations of the Mortgage and of the rights and obligations of us and of the bondholders, and waivers of compliance with the Mortgage, may, with our approval, be made at a meeting of bondholders upon the affirmative vote of bondholders owning 80% of the principal amount of the bonds entitled to vote at the meeting with respect to the matter involved, but no such modifications or alterations or waivers of compliance shall be made which will permit the extension of time or times of payment of the principal of or the interest or the premium, if any, on any bonds or the reduction in the principal amount thereof or in the rate of interest or the amount of any premium thereon, or any other modification in the terms of such principal, interest or premium, which terms of payment are unconditional, or, otherwise than as permitted by the Mortgage, the creation of any lien ranking prior to or on a parity with the lien of the Mortgage with respect to any of the mortgaged property, all as more fully provided in the Mortgage.

Concerning the Mortgage Trustee and the Co-Trustee

     An affiliate of the Mortgage Trustee, BNY Midwest Trust Company, provides general banking services, including those as a depository, for us and certain of our affiliates.

     D. G. Donovan, Co-Trustee under the Mortgage, is an officer of the Mortgage Trustee.

Rights Upon Default

     The Mortgage provides that in case any one or more of certain specified events (defined as “completed defaults”) shall occur and be continuing, the Mortgage Trustee or the holders of not less than 25% in principal amount of the bonds may declare the principal of all bonds, if not already due, together with all accrued and unpaid interest thereon, to be immediately due and payable. The Mortgage Trustee, upon request of the holders of a majority in principal amount of the outstanding bonds, shall waive such default and rescind any such declaration if such default is cured.

     The Mortgage further provides that upon the occurrence of one or more completed defaults, the Mortgage Trustee and the Co-Trustee may proceed by such suits of law or in equity to foreclose the lien of the Mortgage or to enforce any other appropriate remedy as the Mortgage Trustee and the Co-Trustee, being advised by counsel, shall determine.

     Holders of bonds have no right to enforce any remedy under the Mortgage unless the Mortgage Trustee and the Co-Trustee have first had a reasonable opportunity to do so following notice of default to the Mortgage Trustee and request by the holders of not less than 25% in principal amount of the bonds for action by the Mortgage Trustee and the Co-Trustee with offer of indemnity satisfactory to the Mortgage Trustee and the Co-Trustee against costs, expenses and liabilities that may be incurred thereby, but such provision does not impair the absolute right of any bondholder to enforce payment of the principal of and interest on such bondholder’s bonds when due.

Default and Notice Thereof to Bondholders

     The Mortgage provides that the following shall constitute completed defaults:

• default shall be made by us in the payment of any installment of interest on any of the bonds when due and such default shall continue for 60 days;

• default shall be made by us in the payment of the principal of any of the bonds when due, whether at maturity or by declaration or otherwise;

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• default shall be made by us in the payment of any installment of interest on any prior lien bonds when due, and such default shall continue for 30 days after written notice given to us (following the expiration of the period of grace, if any, specified in the prior lien securing such prior lien bonds) by the Mortgage Trustee or to us and the Mortgage Trustee by the holders of not less than 5% in principal amount of the bonds;

• default shall be made by us in the payment of the principal of any prior lien bonds when due, whether at maturity or by declaration or otherwise, and such default shall continue for 30 days after written notice to us by the Mortgage Trustee or to us and the Mortgage Trustee by the holders of not less than 5% in principal of the bonds;

• bankruptcy, receivership or similar proceedings shall be initiated by us, or any judgment entered in such proceedings initiated against us shall not have been vacated, set aside or stayed within 45 days after the entry thereof; and

• default shall be made in the observance or performance of any other of our covenants, conditions or agreements contained in the Mortgage or in the bonds or in any prior lien or prior lien bonds, and such default shall continue for 90 days after written notice to us and the Mortgage Trustee by the holders of not less than 25% in principal amount of the bonds.

     Within 90 days after the occurrence of any default which is known to the Mortgage Trustee and the Co-Trustee, the Mortgage Trustee and the Co-Trustee shall give to the bondholders notice of such default unless it shall have been cured; except, in case of defaults in the payment of principal of or interest on the bonds, or in the payment of any sinking fund or purchase fund installment, if the Mortgage Trustee shall in good faith determine that the withholding of such notice is in the interests of the bondholders and the Co-Trustee shall in good faith determine that the withholding of such notice is in the interests of the bondholders.

Certificates and Opinions

     Officers’ certificates evidencing compliance with the covenants in the Mortgage relating to the payment of taxes and the maintenance of insurance on our properties subject to the lien of the Mortgage must be filed as exhibits to our certificate filed annually with the Mortgage Trustee. In connection with the taking of various actions by the Mortgage Trustee and the Co-Trustee, or the Mortgage Trustee upon our application, including the authentication and delivery of additional bonds, the release of property, the reduction or withdrawal of cash and other matters, the Mortgage requires that we furnish to the Mortgage Trustee orders, requests, resolutions, certificates of the officers, engineers, accountants and appraisers, and opinions of counsel and other documents, the particular documents to be furnished in each case being dependant upon the nature of the application.

Certain United States Federal Income Tax Consequences

     We will include a discussion of certain United States federal income tax considerations that may be applicable to the purchase, ownership and disposition of a bond in the prospectus supplement related to the issuance of that bond.

DESCRIPTION OF NOTES

     We will issue each series of notes under the Indenture dated as of September 1, 1987, as amended and supplemented from time to time, between us and Citibank, N.A., as trustee. We refer to this Indenture in this prospectus as the “Senior Indenture” and to Citibank as the “Senior Indenture Trustee.”

     We have summarized selected provisions of the Senior Indenture below. However, because this summary is not complete, it is subject to and is qualified in its entirety by reference to the Senior

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Indenture. We suggest that you read the complete text of the Senior Indenture, a copy of which we have incorporated by reference as an exhibit to the registration statement of which this prospectus is a part.

     The following sets forth certain general terms and provisions of the notes. The particular terms of the series of notes offered by any prospectus supplement will be described in that prospectus supplement. Any terms of the notes that are not summarized herein will be described in the applicable prospectus supplement.

Issuance in Global Form

     Unless otherwise indicated in the applicable prospectus supplement, we will initially issue each series of notes in the form of one or more global notes, in registered form, without coupons, as described under the caption “Book-Entry System.” The notes will be issued in denominations of $1,000 and authorized multiples of $1,000. No service charge will be made for any transfer or exchange of any note, but we may require payment of a sum sufficient to cover any tax or other governmental charge imposed in connection with any transfer of a note.

     We anticipate that DTC will act as securities depository for the notes. See “Book-Entry System.” We will describe any differing depository arrangement in the applicable prospectus supplement. For so long as the notes are issued in book-entry form, payments of principal and interest will be made in immediately available funds by wire transfer to DTC or its nominee. If the notes are issued in certificated form to a holder other than DTC, payments of principal and interest will be made by check mailed to that holder at that holder’s registered address. Payment of principal of the notes in certificated form will be made against surrender of those notes at the office or agency of our company in the City of Chicago, Illinois and an office or agency in the Borough of Manhattan, City of New York. Payment of interest on the notes will be made to the person in whose name those notes are registered at the close of business on the record date for the relevant interest payment date.

Ranking

     The notes will be unsecured and will rank equally with our outstanding unsecured indebtedness. The notes will be junior to any secured indebtedness we may incur to the extent of the collateral securing that indebtedness. The lien of the Mortgage covers substantially all of our properties and franchises. See “Description of Bonds–Security.” In addition to the series of bonds currently outstanding under the Mortgage, we may from time to time issue additional series of bonds under the Mortgage, subject only to certain net earnings and other requirements of the Mortgage and certain limitations contained in our secured revolving credit agreement. See “Description of Bonds–Issuance of Additional Bonds.”

Sinking Fund and Redemption Provisions

     We will specify in the applicable prospectus supplement any sinking fund and redemption provisions applicable to the series of notes being offered by that prospectus supplement.

Issuance of Additional Notes

     The Senior Indenture does not limit the aggregate principal amount of notes that we may issue thereunder, nor does it afford holders of the notes protection in the event of a highly leveraged or similar transaction involving our company. As of March 31, 2006, notes having an aggregate principal amount of approximately $285 million were outstanding under the Senior Indenture. Neither the Senior Indenture nor any of our other indentures under which we now have series of debentures outstanding limits our ability to issue securities, whether secured or unsecured.

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Modification of Indenture

     We may, except as described below, enter into supplemental indentures with the Senior Indenture Trustee for the purpose of amending or modifying, in any manner, the provisions of the Senior Indenture or of any supplemental indenture thereto:

• with the consent of:

– the holders of a majority in principal amount of the notes at the time outstanding under the Senior Indenture; and

– all series of notes which are affected by the proposed amendment or modification; or

• without consent if the proposed amendment or modification does not affect the rights of any noteholder.

     Without the consent of the holder of each outstanding note affected, we may not enter into a supplemental indenture that would, among other things:

• change the stated maturity of the principal of, or any installment of interest on, any note, or reduce the principal amount thereof or the interest thereon or any premium payable upon the redemption thereof; or

• reduce the percentage in principal amount of the outstanding notes.

Concerning the Senior Indenture Trustee

     The Senior Indenture Trustee, Citibank, N.A., provides general banking services, including those as a depository, for us and certain of our affiliates. Citibank is a lending party in our $1 billion secured revolving credit agreement that closed on February 22, 2006.

Events of Default and Rights upon Default

     The Senior Indenture provides that the following constitute “Events of Default” with respect to the notes of any series:

• default by us in the payment of any interest upon any note of that series when it becomes due and payable, and continuance of that default for a period of 60 days;

• default by us in the payment of the principal of, or premium, if any, on, any note of that series at its maturity;

• default by us in the deposit of any installment of any sinking fund or similar payment with respect to notes of that series when and as payable, and continuance of that default for a period of 60 days;

• the entry of a decree or order in bankruptcy, receivership or similar proceedings initiated against us, and the continuance of any such decree or order for a period of 45 consecutive days;

• our institution of, or our consent to the institution of, bankruptcy, insolvency or similar proceedings against us; and

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• default by us in the performance, or breach, of any other of our covenants or warranties contained in the Senior Indenture, and continuance of that default or breach for a period of 90 days after notice:

– to us by the Senior Indenture Trustee; or

– to us and the Senior Indenture Trustee by the holders of at least 25% in principal amount of the outstanding notes of that series.

     Additional events of default with respect to a particular series of notes may be specified in a supplemental indenture or a Board resolution applicable to that series, and we will describe any of those additional events of default in the prospectus supplement for that series.

     The Senior Indenture provides that within 90 days after the occurrence of any default which is known to the Senior Indenture Trustee, the Senior Indenture Trustee shall give to the noteholders notice of that default, unless that default shall have been cured or waived; except:

• in the case of a default in the payment of the principal of, or premium, if any, or interest on any note of that series, or in the payment of any sinking or purchase fund installment, if the Senior Indenture Trustee shall in good faith determine that the withholding of such notice is in the interests of the holders of notes of that series; and

• in the case of any default in the performance, or breach, of any covenant or warranty referred to in the last bullet point in the immediately preceding paragraph, no notice of default to holders shall be given until at least 60 days after the occurrence thereof.

     If an Event of Default occurs with respect to notes of any series and is continuing, the Senior Indenture Trustee or the holders of 25% in principal amount of the outstanding notes of that series may declare the principal of all the notes of that series due and payable. The holders of a majority in principal amount of the outstanding notes of that series may rescind and annul such declaration if the default has been cured.

     The holders of a majority in principal amount of the outstanding notes of all series affected by an Event of Default may waive any past default under the Senior Indenture and its consequences, except a default in the payment of the principal of, or premium, if any, or interest on any note or in respect of a covenant or provision of the Senior Indenture which cannot be modified or amended without the consent of the holder of each outstanding note affected.

     If an Event of Default occurs and is continuing, the Senior Indenture Trustee may in its discretion proceed to protect and enforce its rights and the rights of the holders of notes by any appropriate judicial proceedings as the Senior Indenture Trustee shall deem most effectual.

     The Senior Indenture provides that the holders of a majority in principal amount of the outstanding notes issued under the Senior Indenture have the right to direct the time, method and place of conducting any proceeding for any remedy available to the Senior Indenture Trustee or exercising any trust or power conferred on the Senior Indenture Trustee. The Senior Indenture Trustee is not obligated to comply with any request or direction of noteholders pursuant to the Senior Indenture unless it has been offered indemnity against costs and liabilities which it might incur in complying with that request or direction.

     We are required to file with the Senior Indenture Trustee, annually, an officers’ certificate specifying any defaults we know to exist under the Senior Indenture.

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Satisfaction and Discharge of the Notes and the Indenture

     Unless otherwise provided in the supplemental indenture creating a series of notes, we will be deemed to have paid and discharged the entire indebtedness on all the outstanding notes of that series when:

• either,

– we have deposited with the Senior Indenture Trustee for such purpose an amount sufficient to pay and discharge the entire indebtedness on all outstanding notes of that series for principal, and premium, if any, and interest to the stated maturity or any redemption date thereof, or we have deposited with the Senior Indenture Trustee for such purpose that amount of direct obligations of, or obligations the principal of and interest on which are fully guaranteed by, the United States of America and which are not callable at the option of the issuer thereof as will, together with the income to accrue thereon without consideration of any reinvestment thereof, be sufficient to pay and discharge the entire indebtedness on all outstanding notes of that series for principal, and premium, if any, and interest to the stated maturity or any redemption date thereto; or

– we have properly fulfilled any other means of satisfaction and discharge as are specified in the supplemental indenture applicable to the notes of that series;

• we have paid or caused to be paid all other sums payable with respect to the outstanding notes of that series; and

• we have delivered certain certificates and an opinion of counsel.

     The Senior Indenture shall cease to be of further effect (except as to any surviving rights of registration of transfer or exchange of notes) when:

• either all notes have been delivered to the Senior Indenture Trustee for cancellation, or all notes not delivered to the Senior Indenture Trustee for cancellation,

– have become due and payable,

– will become due and payable at their stated maturity within one year, or

– are to be called for redemption within one year under arrangements satisfactory to the Senior Indenture Trustee,

	and we have deposited with the Senior Indenture Trustee for such purpose an amount sufficient to pay and discharge the entire indebtedness on the notes for principal, and premium, if any, and interest to the date of such deposit (in the case of notes which have become due and payable), or to their stated maturity or redemption date, as the case may be;
•	we have paid or caused to be paid all other sums payable by us under the Senior Indenture; and
•	we have delivered certain certificates and an opinion of counsel.

     For United States federal income tax purposes, the deposit described in the preceding paragraphs may be treated as a taxable exchange of the related notes for an issue of obligations of the trust or a direct interest in the cash and securities held in the trust. In that case, holders of those notes would recognize gain or loss as if the trust obligations or the cash or securities deposited, as the case may be, had actually

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been received by them in exchange for their notes. Thereafter, such holders would be required to include in income a share of the income, gain or loss of the trust. The amount so required to be included in income could be a different amount than would be includable in the absence of that deposit. You should consult your own tax advisor as to the specific consequences to you of that deposit.

Certain United States Federal Income Tax Consequences

     We will include a discussion of certain United States federal income tax considerations that may be applicable to the purchase, ownership and disposition of a note in the prospectus supplement related to the issuance of that note.

BOOK-ENTRY SYSTEM

     Unless otherwise indicated in the applicable prospectus supplement, each series of bonds or notes will initially be issued in the form of one or more global securities, in registered form, without coupons (as applicable). The global security will be deposited with, or on behalf of, a depository, and registered in the name of that depository or a nominee of that depository. Unless otherwise indicated in the applicable prospectus supplement, the depository for any global securities will be DTC.

     The global securities will be issued as fully-registered securities registered in the name of Cede & Co., DTC’s partnership nominee. One fully-registered global security certificate will be issued for each issue of the global securities, each in the aggregate principal amount of that issue and will be deposited with DTC. If however, the aggregate principal amount of any issue of a series of bonds or notes exceeds $500 million, one global certificate will be issued with respect to each $500 million of principal amount and an additional certificate will be issued with respect to any remaining principal amount of that series. So long as the depository, or its nominee, is the registered owner of a global security, that depository or such nominee, as the case may be, will be considered the owner of that global security for all purposes under the Senior Indenture or the Mortgage, as applicable, including for any notices and voting. Except as otherwise provided below, the owners of beneficial interests in a global security will not be entitled to have securities registered in their names, will not receive or be entitled to receive physical delivery of any such securities and will not be considered the registered holder thereof under the Senior Indenture or the Mortgage, as applicable. Accordingly, each person holding a beneficial interest in a global security must rely on the procedures of the depository and, if that person is not a direct participant, on procedures of the direct participant through which that person holds its interest, to exercise any of the rights of a registered owner of such security.

     A global security may not be transferred as a whole except by DTC to another nominee of DTC or to a successor of DTC or its nominee. Beneficial interests in the global securities shall be transferred and exchanged through the facilities of DTC. Beneficial interests in the global securities may not be exchanged for securities in certificated form except in the circumstances described in the following paragraph.

     Unless otherwise specified in the applicable prospectus supplement, we will be obligated to exchange global securities in whole for certificated securities only if:

• the depository notifies us that it is unwilling or unable to continue as depository for the global securities or the depository has ceased to be a clearing agency registered under applicable law and, in either case, we thereupon fail to appoint a successor depository within 90 days;

• we, at our option, notify the applicable trustee in writing that we elect to cause the issuance of certificated securities; or

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• there shall have occurred and be continuing an event of default with respect to the applicable securities of any series.

In all cases, certificated securities delivered in exchange for any global security or beneficial interest therein will be registered in the names, and issued in any approved denominations, requested by or on behalf of the depository (in accordance with customary procedures).

     The descriptions of operations and procedures of DTC that follow are provided solely as a matter of convenience. These operations and procedures are solely within DTC’s control and are subject to changes by DTC from time to time. We take no responsibility for these operations and procedures and urge you to contact DTC or its participants directly to discuss these matters. DTC has advised us as follows:

• DTC is a limited-purpose trust company organized under the New York Banking Law, a “banking organization” within the meaning of the New York Banking Law, a member of the Federal Reserve System, a “clearing corporation” within the meaning of the New York Uniform Commercial Code, and a “clearing agency” registered pursuant to the provisions of Section 17A of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934.

• DTC holds securities that its direct participants deposit with DTC. DTC also facilitates the post-trade settlement among direct participants of securities transactions, such as transfers and pledges, in deposited securities through electronic computerized book-entry transfers and pledges in direct participants’ accounts, thereby eliminating the need for physical movement of securities certificates.

• Direct participants include securities brokers and dealers, banks, trust companies, clearing corporations and certain other organizations.

• DTC is a wholly-owned subsidiary of The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation, or DTCC. DTCC, in turn, is owned by a number of direct participants of DTC and Members of the National Securities Clearing Corporation, Fixed Income Clearing Corporation, and Emerging Markets Clearing Corporation (NSCC, FICC, and EMCC, also subsidiaries of DTCC), as well as by the New York Stock Exchange, Inc., the American Stock Exchange LLC, and the National Association of Securities Dealers, Inc.

• Access to the DTC system is also available to others such as securities brokers and dealers, banks, trust companies and clearing corporations that clear through or maintain a custodial relationship with a direct participant, either directly or indirectly, which are referred to as indirect participants and, together with the direct participants, the participants.

• The rules applicable to DTC and its participants are on file with the SEC.

     Purchases of global securities under the DTC system must be made by or through direct participants, who will receive a credit for such purchases of global securities on DTC’s records. The ownership interest of each actual purchaser of each global security, or beneficial owner, is in turn to be recorded on the direct and indirect participants’ records. Beneficial owners will not receive written confirmation from DTC of their purchase, but beneficial owners are expected to receive written confirmations providing details of the transaction, as well as periodic statements of their holdings, from the direct or indirect participant through which the beneficial owner entered into the transaction. Transfers of ownership interests in the global securities are to be accomplished by entries made on the books of participants acting on behalf of beneficial owners. Beneficial owners will not receive certificates representing their ownership interests in the global securities, except in the event that use of the book-entry system for the global securities is discontinued.

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     To facilitate subsequent transfers, all global securities deposited by direct participants with DTC are registered in the name of DTC’s partnership nominee, Cede & Co., or such other name as may be requested by an authorized representative of DTC. The deposit of global securities with DTC and their registration in the name of Cede & Co. or such other DTC nominee effect no change in beneficial ownership. DTC has no knowledge of the actual beneficial owners of the global securities; DTC’s records reflect only the identity of the direct participants to whose accounts such global securities are credited which may or may not be the beneficial owners. The participants will remain responsible for keeping account of their holdings on behalf of their customers.

     Conveyance of notices and other communications by DTC to direct participants, by direct participants to indirect participants, and by direct participants and indirect participants to beneficial owners will be governed by arrangements among them, subject to any statutory or regulatory requirements as may be in effect from time to time. Beneficial owners of global securities may wish to take certain steps to augment transmission to them of notices of significant events with respect to the global securities, such as redemptions, tenders, defaults, and proposed amendments to the security documents. For example, beneficial owners of global securities may wish to ascertain that the nominee holding the global securities for their benefit has agreed to obtain and transmit notices to beneficial owners; in the alternative, beneficial owners may wish to provide their names and addresses to the registrar and request that copies of the notices be provided directly to them.

     If the global securities are redeemable, redemption notices shall be sent to Cede & Co. If less than all of the global securities are being redeemed, DTC’s practice is to determine by lot the amount of the interest of each direct participant in such issue to be redeemed.

     Neither DTC nor Cede & Co. (nor any other DTC nominee) will consent or vote with respect to the global securities unless authorized by a direct participant in accordance with DTC’s procedures. Under its usual procedures, DTC mails an omnibus proxy to us as soon as possible after the record date. The omnibus proxy assigns Cede & Co.’s consenting or voting rights to those direct participants whose accounts the global securities are credited on the record date, identified in a listing attached to the omnibus proxy.

     Principal, interest and premium payments, if any, on the global securities will be made to Cede & Co., or such other nominee as may be requested by an authorized representative of DTC. DTC’s practice is to credit direct participants’ accounts upon DTC’s receipt of funds and corresponding detail information from us or the trustee for such securities, on the payable date in accordance with the respective holdings shown on DTC’s records. Payments by participants to beneficial owners will be governed by standing instructions and customary practices, as is the case with securities held for the accounts of customers in bearer form or registered in “street name,” and will be the responsibility of that participant and not of DTC, the trustee for those securities, or us, subject to any statutory or regulatory requirements as may be in effect from time to time. Payment of principal, interest and premium, if any, on any of the aforementioned securities represented by global securities to DTC is the responsibility of the appropriate trustee and us. Disbursement of those payments to direct participants shall be the responsibility of DTC, and disbursement of those payments to the beneficial owners shall be the responsibility of the participants.

     DTC may discontinue providing its services as securities depositary with respect to the global securities at any time by giving us reasonable notice. Although DTC has agreed to the foregoing procedures in order to facilitate transfers of beneficial ownership interests in the global securities among participants, it is under no obligation to perform or continue to perform those procedures, and those procedures may be discontinued at any time.

     The underwriters, dealers or agents of any of the securities may be direct participants of DTC.

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     None of the trustees, us or any agent for payment on or registration of transfer or exchange of any global security will have any responsibility or liability for any aspect of the records relating to, or payments made on account of, beneficial interests in that global security or for maintaining, supervising or reviewing any records relating to those beneficial interests.

PLAN OF DISTRIBUTION

     We may sell the securities through underwriters or dealers, through agents or through a combination of these methods. The applicable prospectus supplement will contain specific information relating to the terms of the offering, including:

• the name or names of any underwriters, dealers or agents;

• the purchase price of the securities and the net proceeds to us from the sale;

• any underwriting discounts and other items constituting underwriters’ compensation; and

• the initial public offering price and any discounts or concessions allowed or re-allowed or paid to dealers.

     The initial public offering price and any discounts or concessions allowed or re-allowed or paid to dealers may be changed from time to time.

By Underwriters

     If underwriters are used in an offering, the securities will be acquired by the underwriters for their own account and may be resold from time to time in one or more transactions, including negotiated transactions, at a fixed public offering price or at varying prices determined at the time of sale. The securities may be offered to the public either through underwriting syndicates represented by one or more managing underwriters or directly by one or more of those firms. The specific managing underwriter or underwriters, if any, will be named in the prospectus supplement relating to the particular securities together with the members of the underwriting syndicate, if any. Unless otherwise set forth in the applicable prospectus supplement, the obligations of the underwriters to purchase the particular securities will be subject to specified conditions precedent and the underwriters will be obligated to purchase all of the securities being offered if any are purchased.

By Dealers

     If dealers are used in the sale, unless otherwise specified in the applicable prospectus supplement, we will sell the securities to the dealers as principals. The dealers may then resell the securities to the public at varying prices to be determined by the dealers at the time of resale. The applicable prospectus supplement will contain more information about the dealers, including the names of the dealers and the terms of our agreement with them.

By Agents

     We may sell the securities directly or through agents we designate from time to time. The applicable prospectus supplement will set forth the name of any agent involved in the offer or sale of the securities in respect of which that prospectus supplement is delivered and any commissions payable by us to that agent. Unless otherwise indicated in the applicable prospectus supplement, any agent will be acting on a best efforts basis for the period of its appointment.

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Indemnification of Underwriters

     Any underwriters, dealers or agents participating in the distribution of the securities may be deemed to be underwriters as defined in the Securities Act of 1933, and any discounts or commissions received by them on the sale or resale of the securities may be deemed to be underwriting discounts and commissions under the Securities Act. Any underwriters, dealers or agents will be identified and their compensation from us will be described in the applicable prospectus supplement.

     We may agree with the underwriters, dealers and agents to indemnify them against certain civil liabilities, including liabilities under the Securities Act, and to contribute with respect to payments which the underwriters, dealers or agents may be required to make in respect of these liabilities.

     Underwriters, dealers and agents may be customers of, engage in transactions with or perform services for, us in the ordinary course of their businesses.

Market for the Securities

     Unless otherwise specified in a prospectus supplement, the securities will not be listed on a national securities exchange. We cannot assure that any broker-dealer will make a market in any series of the securities or the liquidity of the trading market for any of the securities.

LEGAL MATTERS

     Unless otherwise specified in the applicable prospectus supplement, Sidley Austin LLP, Chicago, Illinois, will render an opinion as to the validity of the securities for us, and Winston & Strawn LLP, Chicago Illinois, will render an opinion as to the validity of the securities for any underwriters, dealers, purchasers or agents. Winston & Strawn LLP provides legal services to Exelon and its subsidiaries, including us, from time to time.

EXPERTS

     The consolidated financial statements of Commonwealth Edison Company incorporated in this prospectus by reference to the Annual Report on Form 10-K of Commonwealth Edison Company for the year ended December 31, 2005 have been so incorporated in reliance on the report of PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP, an independent registered public accounting firm, given on the authority of said firm as experts in auditing and accounting.

WHERE YOU CAN FIND MORE INFORMATION

     We file annual, quarterly and current reports, information statements and other information with the SEC. You may read and copy any document that we file with the SEC at the Public Reference Room of the SEC at 100 F Street, N.E., Washington, D.C. 20549. Information on the operation of the Public Reference Room may be obtained by calling the SEC at 1-800-SEC-0330. Our SEC filings are also available to the public over the Internet on the SEC’s web site at http://www.sec.gov. You can also inspect reports and other information we file at the offices of the New York Stock Exchange, Inc., 20 Broad Street, New York, New York 10005.

     The SEC allows us to “incorporate by reference” the information we file with it, which means that we can disclose important information to you by referring you to previously filed documents. The information incorporated by reference is considered to be part of this prospectus, and information that we file later with the SEC will automatically update and supersede this information. We incorporate by reference the following documents we have filed with the SEC (file number 1-1839):

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• Our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2005, filed with the SEC on February 15, 2006;

• Our Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the fiscal quarter ended March 31, 2006, filed with the SEC on April 26, 2006; and

• Our Current Reports on Form 8-K dated:

• January 23, 2006 and filed with the SEC on January 27, 2006;

• January 27, 2006 and filed with the SEC on January 30, 2006;

• February 8, 2006 and filed with the SEC on February 8, 2006;

• February 20, 2006 and filed with the SEC on February 21, 2006;

• February 22, 2006 and filed with the SEC on February 23, 2006;

• February 24, 2006 and filed with the SEC on February 24, 2006; and

• March 6, 2006 and filed with the SEC on March 7, 2006.

     Any future filings that we make with the SEC under Sections 13(a), 13(c), 14 or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 after the date of this prospectus and until we or any underwriters sell all of the securities covered by this registration statement shall be deemed to be incorporated by reference in this prospectus from the date such documents are filed.

     In addition to the resources maintained by the SEC, you may also obtain these filings at no cost by writing us at Commonwealth Edison Company, 10 South Dearborn Street, 36th Floor, P.O. Box 805379, Chicago, Illinois 60680-5379; Attention: Director, Investor Relations or by calling us at (312) 394-2345.

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PART II
INFORMATION NOT REQUIRED IN PROSPECTUS

Item 14. Other Expenses of Issuance and Distribution.

     The estimated expenses in connection with the issuance and distribution of the securities, other than underwriting discounts and agency fees or commissions, are set forth in the following table.

SEC registration fee	$	(1	)
Accounting fees and expenses (2)		10,000
Printer expenses (2)		3,500
Trustee fees and expenses (2)		2,000
Legal fees and expenses (2)		20,000
Miscellaneous (2)		500
Total	$	36,000

(1)

This registration statement relates to the registration of senior debt securities having an indeterminate maximum aggregate principal amount. Payment of the registration fee has been deferred and will be calculated and paid in accordance with Rule 456(b) and Rule 457(r) under the Securities Act.

(2)

Estimated amounts of fees and expenses to be incurred in connection with the registration of the senior debt securities pursuant to this registration statement. The actual amounts of fees and expenses will be determined from time to time. As the amount of the senior debt securities to be issued and distributed pursuant to this registration statement is indeterminate, the fees and expenses of such issuance cannot be determined or estimated at this time.

Item 15. Indemnification of Directors and Officers.

     Certain provisions of the Illinois Business Corporation Act of 1983, as amended (the “BCA”), provide that Commonwealth Edison Company (“ComEd”) may, and in some circumstances must, indemnify the directors and officers of ComEd and of each subsidiary company against liabilities and expenses incurred by such person by reason of the fact that such person was serving in such capacity, subject to certain limitations and conditions set forth in the statute. ComEd’s Restated Articles of Incorporation and Amended and Restated By-Laws provide that ComEd will indemnify its directors and officers and any other person serving as director, officer, employee or agent of another business entity at ComEd’s request, to the extent permitted by the statute. In addition, ComEd’s Restated Articles of Incorporation provide, as permitted by the BCA, that directors shall not be personally liable for monetary damages for breach of fiduciary duty as a director, except (i) for breaches of their duty of loyalty to ComEd or its shareholders, (ii) for acts or omissions not in good faith or which involve intentional misconduct or a knowing violation of law, (iii) under Section 8.65 of the BCA, and (iv) for transactions from which a director derived an improper personal benefit.

     ComEd maintains liability insurance policies which indemnify ComEd’s directors and officers, the directors and officers of subsidiaries of ComEd, and the trustees of the Commonwealth Edison Company Service Annuity Fund and the Commonwealth Edison Company of Indiana, Inc. Service Annuity Fund, against loss arising from claims by reason of their legal liability for acts as such directors, officers or trustees, subject to limitations and conditions as set forth in the policies.

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Item 16. Exhibits.*

Exhibit No.	Description
1-1**	Form of Underwriting Agreement for the First Mortgage Bonds.
1-2**	Form of Underwriting Agreement for the Notes.
3-1	Restated Articles of Incorporation of Commonwealth Edison Company effective February 20, 1985, including Statements of Resolution Establishing Series, relating to the establishment of three new series of Commonwealth Edison Company preference stock known as the “$9.00 Cumulative Preference Stock,” the “$6.875 Cumulative Preference Stock” and the “$2.425 Cumulative Preference Stock,” is incorporated herein by reference to Exhibit 3-2 to Commonwealth Edison Company’s 1994 Form 10-K (File No. 1-1839).
3-2	Amended and Restated By-Laws of Commonwealth Edison Company is incorporated herein by reference to Exhibit 99-1 to Commonwealth Edison Company’s Form 8-K filed with the SEC on January 27, 2006 (File No. 1-1839).
4-1	Mortgage of Commonwealth Edison Company to Illinois Merchants Trust Company, Trustee (BNY Midwest Trust Company, as current successor Trustee), dated July 1, 1923, as supplemented and amended by Supplemental Indenture thereto dated August 1, 1994, is incorporated herein by reference to Exhibit 2-1 to Commonwealth Edison Company’s Form S-7 (File No. 2-60201).
4-1-1	Supplemental Indentures to the aforementioned Commonwealth Edison Mortgage are incorporated herein by reference as follows:

Dated as of	File Reference	Exhibit No.
August 1, 1946	2-60201, Form S-7	2-1
April 1, 1953	2-60201, Form S-7	2-1
March 31, 1967	2-60201, Form S-7	2-1
April 1, 1967	2-60201, Form S-7	2-1
February 28, 1969	2-60201, Form S-7	2-1
May 29, 1970	2-60201, Form S-7	2-1
June 1, 1971	2-60201, Form S-7	2-1
April 1, 1972	2-60201, Form S-7	2-1
May 31, 1972	2-60201, Form S-7	2-1
June 15, 1973	2-60201, Form S-7	2-1
May 31, 1974	2-60201, Form S-7	2-1
June 13, 1975	2-60201, Form S-7	2-1
May 28, 1976	2-60201, Form S-7	2-1
June 3, 1977	2-60201, Form S-7	2-1
May 17, 1978	2-99665, Form S-3	4-3
August 31, 1978	2-99665, Form S-3	4-3
June 18, 1979	2-99665, Form S-3	4-3
June 20, 1980	2-99665, Form S-3	4-3
April 16, 1981	2-99665, Form S-3	4-3
April 30, 1982	2-99665, Form S-3	4-3
April 15, 1983	2-99665, Form S-3	4-3
April 13, 1984	2-99665, Form S-3	4-3
April 15, 1985	2-99665, Form S-3	4-3
April 15, 1986	33-6879, Form S-3	4-9
October 1, 1991	33-40018, Form S-3	4-13
October 15, 1991	33-40018, Form S-3	4-14

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May 15, 1992	33-48542, Form S-3	4-14
April 15, 1993 June 15, 1993	33-64028, Form S-3 1-1839, Form 8-K dated May 21, 1993	4-13 4-1
July 15, 1993	1-1839, Form 10-Q for
	quarter ended June 30, 1993	4-1
January 15, 1994	1-1839, 1993 Form 10-K	4-15
June 1, 1996	1-1839, 1996 Form 10-K	4-16
March 1, 2002	1-1839, 2001 Form 10-K	4-4-1
May 20, 2002	333-99363, Form S-3	4-1-1
June 1, 2002	333-99363, Form S-3	4-1-1
October 7, 2002	333-99715, Form S-4	4-1-3
January 13, 2003	1-1839, Form 8-K dated January 22, 2003	4-4
March 14, 2003	1-1839, Form 8-K dated April 7, 2003	4-4
April 23, 2003***
August 13, 2003	1-1839, Form 8-K dated August 25, 2003	4-4
September 10, 2003***
November 10, 2003***
December 5, 2003***
February 15, 2005	1-1839, Form 10-Q for the quarter ended March 31, 2005	4-3-1
February 1, 2006	1-1839, Form 8-K dated February 22, 2006	99-3
February 22, 2006	1-1839, Form 8-K dated March 6, 2006	4-1

4-1-2	Instrument of Resignation, Appointment and Acceptance dated as of February 20, 2002, under the provisions of the Mortgage dated July 1, 1923, and Indentures Supplemental thereto, regarding corporate trustee is incorporated by reference to Exhibit 4-4-2 to Commonwealth Edison Company’s 2001 Form 10-K (File No. 1-1839).
4-1-3	Instrument dated as of January 31, 1996, under the provisions of the Mortgage dated July 1, 1923 and Indentures Supplemental thereto, regarding individual trustee is incorporated herein by reference to Exhibit 4-29 to Commonwealth Edison Company’s 1995 Form 10-K (File No. 1-1839).
4-2	Indenture dated as of September 1, 1987 between Commonwealth Edison Company and Citibank, N.A., as Trustee relating to Notes, is incorporated herein by reference to Exhibit 4-13 to Commonwealth Edison Company’s Form S-3 (File No. 1-1839).
4-2-1	Supplemental Indentures to the aforementioned Commonwealth Edison Indenture are incorporated herein by reference as follows:

Dated as of	File Reference	Exhibit No.
September 1, 1987 January 1, 1997 September 1, 2000	33-32929, Form S-3 1-1839, 1999 Form 10-K 1-1839, 2000 Form 10-K	4-16 4-21 4-7-3

4-3** Form of Supplemental Indenture relating to the First Mortgage Bonds.

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4-4**	Form of Supplemental Indenture relating to the Notes.
5-1***	Opinion of Sidley Austin LLP as to the validity of the Securities.
12-1***	Statement re Computation of Ratios of Earnings to Fixed Charges.
23-1***	Consent of PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP.
23-2***	Consent of Sidley Austin LLP (included in Exhibit 5-1).
24-1***	Powers of Attorney (included on signature page).
25-1***	Form T-1 Statement of Eligibility and Qualification under the Trust Indenture Act of 1939 of BNY Midwest Trust Company, as trustee under the Mortgage.
25-2***	Form T-2 Statement of D.G. Donovan, as co-trustee under the Mortgage.
25-3***	Form T-1 Statement of Eligibility and Qualification under the Trust Indenture Act of 1939 of Citibank, N.A., as trustee under the Senior Indenture.

*	Certain other instruments which would otherwise be required to be listed have not been so included because such instruments do not authorize securities in an amount which exceeds 10% of the total assets of the Registrant and its subsidiaries on a consolidated basis and the Registrant agrees to furnish a copy of any such instrument to the Commission upon request.
**	To be filed by an amendment to the Registration Statement or incorporated by reference pursuant to a Current Report on Form 8-K in connection with the offering of securities.
***	Filed herewith.

Item 17. Undertakings.

     (a) The undersigned Registrant hereby undertakes:

     (1) To file, during any period in which offers or sales are being made, a post-effective amendment to this registration statement:

     (i) To include any prospectus required by Section 10(a)(3) of the Securities Act of 1933;

     (ii) To reflect in the prospectus any facts or events arising after the effective date of the registration statement (or the most recent post-effective amendment thereof) which, individually or in the aggregate, represent a fundamental change in the information set forth in the registration statement. Notwithstanding the foregoing, any increase or decrease in volume of securities offered (if the total dollar value of securities offered would not exceed that which was registered) and any deviation from the low or high end of the estimated maximum offering range may be reflected in the form of prospectus filed with the Commission pursuant to Rule 424(b) if, in the aggregate, the changes in volume and price represent no more than a 20 percent change in the maximum aggregate offering price set forth in the “Calculation of Registration Fee” table in the effective registration statement; and

     (iii) To include any material information with respect to the plan of distribution not previously disclosed in the registration statement or any material change to such information in the registration statement;

     provided, however, that paragraphs (a)(1)(i), (a)(1)(ii) and (a)(1)(iii) of this section do not apply if the information required to be included in a post-effective amendment by those paragraphs is contained in periodic reports filed with or furnished to the Commission by the Registrant pursuant to Section 13 or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 that are incorporated by reference in the registration statement, or is contained in a form of prospectus filed pursuant to Rule 424(b) that is part of the registration statement.

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     (2) That, for the purpose of determining any liability under the Securities Act of 1933, each such post-effective amendment shall be deemed to be a new registration statement relating to the securities offered therein, and the offering of such securities at that time shall be deemed to be the initial bona fide offering thereof.

     (3) To remove from registration by means of a post-effective amendment any of the securities being registered which remain unsold at the termination of the offering.

     (4) That, for the purpose of determining liability under the Securities Act of 1933 to any purchaser:

     (A) Each prospectus filed by the registrant pursuant to Rule 424(b)(3) shall be deemed to be part of the registration statement as of the date the filed prospectus was deemed part of and included in the registration statement; and

     (B) Each prospectus required to be filed pursuant to Rule 424(b)(2), (b)(5), or (b)(7) as part of a registration statement in reliance on Rule 430B relating to an offering made pursuant to Rule 415(a)(1)(i), (vii), or (x) for the purpose of providing the information required by Section 10(a) of the Securities Act of 1933 shall be deemed to be part of and included in the registration statement as of the earlier of the date such form of prospectus is first used after effectiveness or the date of the first contract of sale of securities in the offering described in the prospectus. As provided in Rule 430B, for liability purposes of the issuer and any person that is at that date an underwriter, such date shall be deemed to be a new effective date of the registration statement relating to the securities in the registration statement to which that prospectus relates, and the offering of such securities at that time shall be deemed to be the initial bona fide offering thereof. Provided, however, that no statement made in a registration statement or prospectus that is part of the registration statement or made in a document incorporated or deemed incorporated by reference into the registration statement or prospectus that is part of the registration statement will, as to a purchaser with a time of contract of sale prior to such effective date, supersede or modify any statement that was made in the registration statement or prospectus that was part of the registration statement or made in any such document immediately prior to such effective date.

     (5) That, for the purpose of determining liability of the Registrant under the Securities Act of 1933 to any purchaser in the initial distribution of the securities:

     The undersigned Registrant undertakes that in a primary offering of securities of the undersigned Registrant pursuant to this registration statement, regardless of the underwriting method used to sell the securities to the purchaser, if the securities are offered or sold to such purchaser by means of any of the following communications, the undersigned registrant will be a seller to the purchaser and will be considered to offer or sell such securities to such purchaser:

(i) Any preliminary prospectus or prospectus of the undersigned Registrant relating to the offering required to be filed pursuant to Rule 424;

(ii) Any free writing prospectus relating to the offering prepared by or on behalf of the undersigned Registrant or used or referred to by the undersigned Registrant;

(iii) The portion of any other free writing prospectus relating to the offering containing material information about the undersigned Registrant or its securities provided by or on behalf of the undersigned Registrant; and

(iv) Any other communication that is an offer in the offering made by the undersigned Registrant to the purchaser.

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     (b) The undersigned Registrant hereby undertakes that, for purposes of determining any liability under the Securities Act of 1933, each filing of the Registrant’s annual report pursuant to Section 13(a) or Section 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (and, where applicable, each filing of an employee benefit plan’s annual report pursuant to Section 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934) that is incorporated by reference in the registration statement shall be deemed to be a new registration statement relating to the securities offered therein, and the offering of such securities at that time shall be deemed to be the initial bona fide offering thereof.

     (c) Insofar as indemnification for liabilities arising under the Securities Act of 1933 may be permitted to directors, officers and controlling persons of the Registrant pursuant to the foregoing provisions, or otherwise, the Registrant has been advised that in the opinion of the Securities and Exchange Commission such indemnification is against public policy as expressed in the Act and is, therefore, unenforceable. In the event that a claim for indemnification against such liabilities (other than the payment by the Registrant of expenses incurred or paid by a director, officer or controlling person of the Registrant in the successful defense of any action, suit or proceeding) is asserted by such director, officer or controlling person in connection with the securities being registered, the Registrant will, unless in the opinion of its counsel the matter has been settled by controlling precedent, submit to a court of appropriate jurisdiction the question whether such indemnification by it is against public policy as expressed in the Act and will be governed by the final adjudication of such issue.

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SIGNATURES

     Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, the Registrant certifies that it has reasonable grounds to believe that it meets all of the requirements for filing on Form S-3 and has duly caused this Registration Statement to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized, in the City of Chicago, State of Illinois, on this 10th day of May, 2006.

COMMONWEALTH EDISON COMPANY
By:	/s/ Frank M. Clark
	Frank M. Clark
	Chairman and Chief Executive Officer

     Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, this Registration Statement has been signed by the following persons in the capacities and on the dates indicated.

     Each person whose signature appears below constitutes and appoints Frank M. Clark and Robert K. McDonald, and each of them, his or her true and lawful attorney-in-fact and agent, with full power of substitution, for him or her and in his or her name, place and stead, in any and all capacities, to sign any and all amendments to this Registration Statement, including any filings pursuant to Rule 462(b) or 462(e) under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and to file the same, with all exhibits thereto and other documents in connection therewith, with the Securities and Exchange Commission, granting unto such attorneys-in-fact and agents, and each of them, full power and authority to do and perform each and every act and thing requisite and necessary to be done in and about the premises, as fully to all intents and purposes as he might or could do in person, hereby ratifying all that such attorneys-in-fact and agents, or any of them or their or his substitute or substitutes, may lawfully do or cause to be done by virtue hereof.

Signature	Title	Date
/s/ Frank M. Clark	Chairman and Chief Executive Officer	May 10, 2006
Frank M. Clark	(Principal Executive Officer)
/s/ Robert K. McDonald	Senior Vice President, Chief	May 10, 2006
Robert K. McDonald	Financial Officer, Treasurer and
	Chief Risk Officer
	(Principal Financial Officer)
/s/ Matthew F. Hilzinger	Senior Vice President and Corporate	May 10, 2006
Matthew F. Hilzinger	Controller, Exelon Corporation
	(Principal Accounting Officer)
/s/ Sue L. Gin	Director	May 10, 2006
Sue L. Gin
/s/ Edgar D. Jannotta	Director	May 10, 2006
Edgar D. Jannotta
/s/ John W. Rogers, Jr.	Director	May 10, 2006
John W. Rogers, Jr.
/s/ Richard L. Thomas	Director	May 10, 2006
Richard L. Thomas

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INDEX TO EXHIBITS*

Exhibit No.	Description
1-1**	Form of Underwriting Agreement for the First Mortgage Bonds.
1-2**	Form of Underwriting Agreement for the Notes.
3-1	Restated Articles of Incorporation of Commonwealth Edison Company effective February 20, 1985, including Statements of Resolution Establishing Series, relating to the establishment of three new series of Commonwealth Edison Company preference stock known as the “$9.00 Cumulative Preference Stock,” the “$6.875 Cumulative Preference Stock” and the “$2.425 Cumulative Preference Stock,” is incorporated herein by reference to Exhibit 3-2 to Commonwealth Edison Company’s 1994 Form 10-K (File No. 1-1839).
3-2	Amended and Restated By-Laws of Commonwealth Edison Company is incorporated herein by reference to Exhibit 99-1 to Commonwealth Edison Company’s Form 8-K filed with the SEC on January 27, 2006 (File No. 1-1839).
4-1	Mortgage of Commonwealth Edison Company to Illinois Merchants Trust Company, Trustee (BNY Midwest Trust Company, as current successor Trustee), dated July 1, 1923, as supplemented and amended by Supplemental Indenture thereto dated August 1, 1994, is incorporated herein by reference to Exhibit 2-1 to Commonwealth Edison Company’s Form S-7 (File No. 2-60201).
4-1-1	Supplemental Indentures to the aforementioned Commonwealth Edison Mortgage are incorporated herein by reference as follows:

Dated as of	File Reference	Exhibit No.
August 1, 1946	2-60201, Form S-7	2-1
April 1, 1953	2-60201, Form S-7	2-1
March 31, 1967	2-60201, Form S-7	2-1
April 1, 1967	2-60201, Form S-7	2-1
February 28, 1969	2-60201, Form S-7	2-1
May 29, 1970	2-60201, Form S-7	2-1
June 1, 1971	2-60201, Form S-7	2-1
April 1, 1972	2-60201, Form S-7	2-1
May 31, 1972	2-60201, Form S-7	2-1
June 15, 1973	2-60201, Form S-7	2-1
May 31, 1974	2-60201, Form S-7	2-1
June 13, 1975	2-60201, Form S-7	2-1
May 28, 1976	2-60201, Form S-7	2-1
June 3, 1977	2-60201, Form S-7	2-1
May 17, 1978	2-99665, Form S-3	4-3
August 31, 1978	2-99665, Form S-3	4-3
June 18, 1979	2-99665, Form S-3	4-3
June 20, 1980	2-99665, Form S-3	4-3
April 16, 1981	2-99665, Form S-3	4-3
April 30, 1982	2-99665, Form S-3	4-3
April 15, 1983	2-99665, Form S-3	4-3
April 13, 1984	2-99665, Form S-3	4-3
April 15, 1985	2-99665, Form S-3	4-3
April 15, 1986	33-6879, Form S-3	4-9
October 1, 1991	33-40018, Form S-3	4-13

October 15, 1991	33-40018, Form S-3	4-14
May 15, 1992	33-48542, Form S-3	4-14
April 15, 1993	33-64028, Form S-3	4-13
June 15, 1993	1-1839, Form 8-K dated May 21, 1993	4-1
July 15, 1993	1-1839, Form 10-Q for quarter ended June 30, 1993	4-1
January 15, 1994	1-1839, 1993 Form 10-K	4-15
June 1, 1996	1-1839, 1996 Form 10-K	4-16
March 1, 2002	1-1839, 2001 Form 10-K	4-4-1
May 20, 2002	333-99363, Form S-3	4-1-1
June 1, 2002	333-99363, Form S-3	4-1-1
October 7, 2002	333-99715, Form S-4	4-1-3
January 13, 2003	1-1839, Form 8-K dated January 22, 2003	4-4
March 14, 2003	1-1839, Form 8-K dated April 7, 2003	4-4
April 23, 2003***
August 13, 2003	1-1839, Form 8-K dated August 25, 2003	4-4
September 10, 2003***
November 10, 2003***
December 5, 2003***
February 15, 2005	1-1839, Form 10-Q for the quarter ended March 31, 2005	4-3-1
February 1, 2006	1-1839, Form 8-K dated February 22, 2006	99-3
February 22, 2006	1-1839, Form 8-K dated March 6, 2006	4-1

4-1-2	Instrument of Resignation, Appointment and Acceptance dated as of February 20, 2002, under the provisions of the Mortgage dated July 1, 1923, and Indentures Supplemental thereto, regarding corporate trustee is incorporated by reference to Exhibit 4-4-2 to Commonwealth Edison Company’s 2001 Form 10-K (File No. 1-1839).
4-1-3	Instrument dated as of January 31, 1996, under the provisions of the Mortgage dated July 1, 1923 and Indentures Supplemental thereto, regarding individual trustee is incorporated herein by reference to Exhibit 4-29 to Commonwealth Edison Company’s 1995 Form 10-K (File No. 1-1839).
4-2	Indenture dated as of September 1, 1987 between Commonwealth Edison Company and Citibank, N.A., as Trustee relating to Notes, is incorporated herein by reference to Exhibit 4-13 to Commonwealth Edison Company’s Form S-3 (File No. 1-1839).
4-2-1	Supplemental Indentures to the aforementioned Commonwealth Edison Indenture are incorporated herein by reference as follows:

Dated as of	File Reference	Exhibit No.
September 1, 1987	33-32929, Form S-3	4-16
January 1, 1997	1-1839, 1999 Form 10-K	4-21
September 1, 2000	1-1839, 2000 Form 10-K	4-7-3

4-3**	Form of Supplemental Indenture relating to the First Mortgage Bonds.
4-4**	Form of Supplemental Indenture relating to the Notes.
5-1***	Opinion of Sidley Austin LLP as to the validity of the Securities.
12-1***	Statement re Computation of Ratios of Earnings to Fixed Charges.
23-1***	Consent of PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP.
23-2***	Consent of Sidley Austin LLP (included in Exhibit 5-1).
24-1***	Powers of Attorney (included on signature page).
25-1***	Form T-1 Statement of Eligibility and Qualification under the Trust Indenture Act of 1939 of BNY Midwest Trust Company, as trustee under the Mortgage.
25-2***	Form T-2 Statement of D.G. Donovan, as co-trustee under the Mortgage.
25-3***	Form T-1 Statement of Eligibility and Qualification under the Trust Indenture Act of 1939 of Citibank, N.A., as trustee under the Senior Indenture.

*	Certain other instruments which would otherwise be required to be listed have not been so included because such instruments do not authorize securities in an amount which exceeds 10% of the total assets of the Registrant and its subsidiaries on a consolidated basis and the Registrant agrees to furnish a copy of any such instrument to the Commission upon request.
**	To be filed by an amendment to the Registration Statement or incorporated by reference pursuant to a Current Report on Form 8-K in connection with the offering of securities.
***	Filed herewith.

EX-4.1.1(A)

Exhibit 4-1-1(A)

This instrument was prepared by,
and when recorded should be
returned to:

Richard W. Astle
Sidley Austin Brown & Wood
Bank One Plaza
10 South Dearborn Street
Chicago, Illinois 60603

Supplemental Indenture

Dated as of April 23, 2003

Commonwealth Edison Company

to

BNY Midwest Trust Company

and

D.G. Donovan

Trustees Under Mortgage Dated July 1, 1923,

and Certain

Indentures Supplemental Thereto

Providing for Issuance of

FIRST MORTGAGE BONDS, POLLUTION CONTROL SERIES 2003
Due May 15, 2017

          This Supplemental Indenture, dated as of April 23, 2003, between Commonwealth Edison Company, a corporation organized and existing under the laws of the State of Illinois (hereinafter called the “Company”) having an address at 10 South Dearborn Street, 37^th floor, Chicago, Illinois 60603, party of the first part, BNY Midwest Trust Company, a trust company organized and existing under the laws of the State of Illinois having an address at 2 North LaSalle Street, Suite 1020, Chicago, Illinois 60602, and D.G. Donovan, an individual having an address at 2 North LaSalle Street, Suite 1020, Chicago, Illinois 60602, as Trustee and Co-Trustee, respectively, under the Mortgage of the Company dated July 1, 1923, as amended and supplemented by Supplemental Indenture dated August 1, 1944 and the subsequent supplemental indentures hereinafter mentioned, parties of the second part (said Trustee being hereinafter called the “Trustee”, the Trustee and said Co-Trustee being hereinafter together called the “Trustees”, and said Mortgage dated July 1, 1923, as amended and supplemented by said Supplemental Indenture dated August 1, 1944 and subsequent supplemental indentures, being hereinafter called the "Mortgage”),

WITNESSETH:

          WHEREAS, the Company duly executed and delivered the Mortgage to provide for the issue of, and to secure, its bonds, issuable in series and without limit as to principal amount except as provided in the Mortgage; and

          WHEREAS, the Company from time to time has executed and delivered supplemental indentures to the Mortgage to provide for (i) the creation of additional series of bonds secured by the Mortgage, (ii) the amendment of certain of the terms and provisions of the Mortgage and (iii) the confirmation of the lien of the Mortgage upon property of the Company, such supplemental indentures that are currently effective and the respective dates, parties thereto and purposes thereof, being as follows:

Supplemental
Indenture Date	Parties	Providing For
August 1, 1944	Company to Continental Illinois National Bank and Trust Company of Chicago and Edmond B. Stofft, as Trustee and Co-Trustee	Amendment and restatement of Mortgage dated July 1, 1923
August 1, 1946	Company to Continental Illinois National Bank and Trust Company of Chicago and Edmond B. Stofft, as Trustee and Co-Trustee	Confirmation of mortgage lien
April 1, 1953	Company to Continental Illinois National Bank and Trust Company of Chicago and Edmond B. Stofft, as Trustee and Co-Trustee	Confirmation of mortgage lien
March 31, 1967	Company to Continental Illinois National Bank and Trust Company of Chicago and Edward J. Friedrich, as Trustee and Co-Trustee	Confirmation of mortgage lien
April 1, 1967	Company to Continental Illinois National Bank and Trust Company of Chicago and Edward J. Friedrich, as Trustee and Co-Trustee	Amendment of Sections 3.01, 3.02, 3.05 and 3.14 of the Mortgage and issuance of First Mortgage 5-3/8% Bonds, Series Y

2

Supplemental
Indenture Date	Parties	Providing For
February 28, 1969	Company to Continental Illinois National Bank and Trust Company of Chicago and Donald W. Alfvin, as Trustee and Co-Trustee	Confirmation of mortgage lien
May 29, 1970	Company to Continental Illinois National Bank and Trust Company of Chicago and Donald W. Alfvin, as Trustee and Co-Trustee	Confirmation of mortgage lien
June 1, 1971	Company to Continental Illinois National Bank and Trust Company of Chicago and Donald W. Alfvin, as Trustee and Co-Trustee	Confirmation of mortgage lien
April 1, 1972	Company to Continental Illinois National Bank and Trust Company of Chicago and Donald W. Alfvin, as Trustee and Co-Trustee	Confirmation of mortgage lien
May 31, 1972	Company to Continental Illinois National Bank and Trust Company of Chicago and Donald W. Alfvin, as Trustee and Co-Trustee	Confirmation of mortgage lien
June 15, 1973	Company to Continental Illinois National Bank and Trust Company of Chicago and Donald W. Alfvin, as Trustee and Co-Trustee	Confirmation of mortgage lien
May 31, 1974	Company to Continental Illinois National Bank and Trust Company of Chicago and Donald W. Alfvin, as Trustee and Co-Trustee	Confirmation of mortgage lien
June 13, 1975	Company to Continental Illinois National Bank and Trust Company of Chicago and Donald W. Alfvin, as Trustee and Co-Trustee	Confirmation of mortgage lien
May 28, 1976	Company to Continental Illinois National Bank and Trust Company of Chicago and Donald W. Alfvin, as Trustee and Co-Trustee	Confirmation of mortgage lien
June 3, 1977	Company to Continental Illinois National Bank and Trust Company of Chicago and Donald W. Alfvin, as Trustee and Co-Trustee	Confirmation of mortgage lien
May 17, 1978	Company to Continental Illinois National Bank and Trust Company of Chicago and Donald W. Alfvin, as Trustee and Co-Trustee	Confirmation of mortgage lien
August 31, 1978	Company to Continental Illinois National Bank and Trust Company of Chicago and Donald W. Alfvin, as Trustee and Co-Trustee	Confirmation of mortgage lien
June 18, 1979	Company to Continental Illinois National Bank and Trust Company of Chicago and Donald W. Alfvin, as Trustee and Co-Trustee	Confirmation of mortgage lien
June 20, 1980	Company to Continental Illinois National Bank and Trust Company of Chicago and Donald W. Alfvin, as Trustee and Co-Trustee	Confirmation of mortgage lien
April 16, 1981	Company to Continental Illinois National Bank and Trust Company of Chicago and Donald W. Alfvin, as Trustee and Co-Trustee	Confirmation of mortgage lien

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Supplemental
Indenture Date	Parties	Providing For
April 30, 1982	Company to Continental Illinois National Bank and Trust Company of Chicago and Donald W. Alfvin, as Trustee and Co-Trustee	Confirmation of mortgage lien
April 15, 1983	Company to Continental Illinois National Bank and Trust Company of Chicago and Donald W. Alfvin, as Trustee and Co-Trustee	Confirmation of mortgage lien
April 13, 1984	Company to Continental Illinois National Bank and Trust Company of Chicago and Donald W. Alfvin, as Trustee and Co-Trustee	Confirmation of mortgage lien
April 15, 1985	Company to Continental Illinois National Bank and Trust Company of Chicago and Donald W. Alfvin, as Trustee and Co-Trustee	Confirmation of mortgage lien
April 15, 1986	Company to Continental Illinois National Bank and Trust Company of Chicago and M.J. Kruger, as Trustee and Co-Trustee	Confirmation of mortgage lien
June 15, 1990	Company to Continental Bank, National Association and M.J. Kruger, as Trustee and Co-Trustee	Issuance of First Mortgage 9-7/8% Bonds, Series 75
October 1, 1991	Company to Continental Bank, National Association and M.J. Kruger, as Trustee and Co-Trustee	Issuance of First Mortgage 8-1/4% Bonds, Series 76 and First Mortgage 8-7/8% Bonds, Series 77
October 15, 1991	Company to Continental Bank, National Association and M.J. Kruger, as Trustee and Co-Trustee	Issuance of First Mortgage 8-3/8% Bonds, Series 78 and First Mortgage 9-1/8% Bonds, Series 79
May 15, 1992	Company to Continental Bank, National Association and M.J. Kruger, as Trustee and Co-Trustee	Issuance of First Mortgage 6-1/8% Bonds, Series 82 and First Mortgage 8% Bonds, Series 83
September 15, 1992	Company to Continental Bank, National Association and M.J. Kruger, as Trustee and Co-Trustee	Issuance of First Mortgage 7-3/8% Bonds, Series 85 and First Mortgage 8-3/8% Bonds, Series 86
April 15, 1993	Company to Continental Bank, National Association and M.J. Kruger, as Trustee and Co-Trustee	Issuance of First Mortgage 7-5/8% Bonds, Series 92
June 15, 1993	Company to Continental Bank, National Association and M.J. Kruger, as Trustee and Co-Trustee	Issuance of First Mortgage 7% Bonds, Series 93 and First Mortgage 7-1/2% Bonds, Series 94
July 15, 1993	Company to Continental Bank, National Association and M.J. Kruger, as Trustee and Co-Trustee	Issuance of First Mortgage 6-5/8% Bonds, Series 96 and First Mortgage 7-3/4% Bonds, Series 97

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Supplemental
Indenture Date	Parties	Providing For
January 15, 1994	Company to Continental Bank, National Association and M.J. Kruger, as Trustee and Co-Trustee	Issuance of First Mortgage Bonds, Pollution Control Series 1994A, 1994B and 1994C
December 1, 1994	Company to Bank of America Illinois and Robert J. Donahue, as Trustee and Co-Trustee	Issuance of First Mortgage Bonds, Pollution Control Series 1994D
June 1, 1996	Company to Harris Trust and Savings Bank and D.G. Donovan, as Trustee and Co-Trustee	Issuance of First Mortgage Bonds, Pollution Control Series 1996A and 1996B
March 1, 2002	Company to BNY Midwest Trust Company and D.G. Donovan, as Trustee and Co-Trustee	Issuance of unregistered First Mortgage 6.15% Bonds, Series 98
May 20, 2002	Company to BNY Midwest Trust Company and D.G. Donovan, as Trustee and Co-Trustee	Issuance of First Mortgage Bonds, Pollution Control Series 2002
June 1, 2002	Company to BNY Midwest Trust Company and D.G. Donovan, as Trustee and Co-Trustee	Issuance of additional unregistered First Mortgage 6.15% Bonds, Series 98
October 7, 2002	Company to BNY Midwest Trust Company and D.G. Donovan, as Trustee and Co-Trustee	Issuance of registered First Mortgage 6.15% Bonds, Series 98 in exchange for unregistered First Mortgage 6.15% Bonds, Series 98
January 13, 2003	Company to BNY Midwest Trust Company and D.G. Donovan, as Trustee and Co-Trustee	Issuance of First Mortgage 3.700% Bonds, Series 99 and First Mortgage 5.875% Bonds, Series 100
March 14, 2003	Company to BNY Midwest Trust Company and D.G. Donovan, as Trustee and Co-Trustee	Issuance of First Mortgage 4.70% Bonds, Series 101

          WHEREAS, the respective designations, maturity dates and principal amounts of the bonds of each series presently outstanding under, and secured by, the Mortgage and the several supplemental indentures above referred to, are as follows:

Designation	Maturity Date	Principal Amount
First Mortgage 9-7/8% Bonds, Series 75	June 15, 2020	$	54,171,000
First Mortgage 8-1/4% Bonds, Series 76	October 1, 2006		100,000,000
First Mortgage 8-3/8% Bonds, Series 78	October 15, 2006		125,000,000
First Mortgage 8% Bonds, Series 83	May 15, 2008		140,000,000
First Mortgage 7-5/8% Bonds, Series 92	April 15, 2013		218,500,000
First Mortgage 7% Bonds, Series 93	July 1, 2005		225,000,000
First Mortgage 7-1/2% Bonds, Series 94	July 1, 2013		147,000,000
First Mortgage 6-5/8% Bonds, Series 96	July 15, 2003		100,000,000
First Mortgage 7-3/4% Bonds, Series 97	July 15, 2023		150,000,000

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Designation	Maturity Date	Principal Amount
First Mortgage 5.3% Bonds, Pollution Control Series 1994A	January 15, 2004		26,000,000
First Mortgage 5.7% Bonds, Pollution Control Series 1994B	January 15, 2009		20,000,000
First Mortgage 5.85% Bonds, Pollution Control Series 1994C	January 15, 2014		20,000,000
First Mortgage 6.75% Bonds, Pollution Control Series 1994D	March 1, 2015		91,000,000
First Mortgage 4.4% Bonds, Pollution Control Series 1996A	December 1, 2006		110,000,000
First Mortgage 4.4% Bonds, Pollution Control Series 1996B	December 1, 2006		89,400,000
First Mortgage 6.15% Bonds, Series 98	March 15, 2012		600,000,000
First Mortgage Bonds, Pollution Control Series 2002	April 15, 2013		100,000,000
First Mortgage 3.700% Bonds, Series 99	February 1, 2008		350,000,000
First Mortgage 5.875% Bonds, Series 100	February 1, 2033		350,000,000
First Mortgage 4.70% Bonds, Series 101	April 15, 2015		395,000,000
	Total	$	3,411,071,000

          WHEREAS, the Mortgage provides for the issuance from time to time thereunder, in series, of bonds of the Company for the purposes and subject to the limitations therein specified; and

          WHEREAS, the Company desires, by this Supplemental Indenture, to create an additional series of bonds to be issuable under the Mortgage, such bonds to be designated “First Mortgage Bonds, Pollution Control Series 2003” (hereinafter called the “bonds of Series 2003”) and the terms and provisions to be contained in the bonds of Series 2003 or to be otherwise applicable thereto to be as set forth in this Supplemental Indenture; and

          WHEREAS, the bonds of Series 2003 and the Trustee’s certificate to be endorsed thereon shall be substantially in the forms included in Exhibit A hereto; and

          WHEREAS, the Company is legally empowered and has been duly authorized by the necessary corporate action and by order of the Illinois Commerce Commission to make, execute and deliver this Supplemental Indenture, and to create, as an additional series of bonds of the Company, the bonds of Series 2003, and all acts and things whatsoever necessary to make this Supplemental Indenture, when executed and delivered by the Company and the Trustees, a valid, binding and legal instrument, and to make the bonds of Series 2003, when authenticated by the Trustee and issued as provided in the Mortgage and in this Supplemental Indenture, the valid, binding and legal obligations of the Company, entitled in all respects to the security of the Mortgage, as amended and supplemented, have been done and performed;

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          NOW, THEREFORE, in consideration of the premises and of the sum of one dollar duly paid by the Trustees to the Company, and for other good and valuable consideration, the receipt of which is hereby acknowledged, the parties hereto do hereby agree as follows:

ARTICLE I

DEFINITIONS AND RULES OF CONSTRUCTION

          SECTION 1.01. Terms of the Mortgage. The terms used in this Supplemental Indenture which are defined in the Mortgage, unless otherwise specified herein, are used herein with the same meanings as in the Mortgage.

          SECTION 1.02. Definitions of New Terms. The following terms shall have the following meanings in this Supplemental Indenture:

     “IDFA” shall mean the Illinois Development Finance Authority, a political subdivision and body politic and corporate duly organized and validly existing under and by virtue of the laws of the State of Illinois.

     “IDFA Bonds” shall mean those certain Pollution Control Revenue Refunding Bonds (Commonwealth Edison Company Project) Series 2003 issued in the original aggregate principal amount of $40,000,000 under and pursuant to the terms of the IDFA Indenture.

     “IDFA Indenture” shall mean that certain Indenture of Trust dated as of May 1, 2003, between IDFA, as issuer, and Bank One, National Association, as trustee.

          SECTION 1.03. Rules of Construction. All references to any agreement refer to such agreement as modified, varied, or amended from time to time by the parties thereto (including any permitted successors or assigns) in accordance with its terms.

ARTICLE II

          SECTION 2.01. Designation and Issuance of Bonds. (a) The bonds of Series 2003 shall, as hereinbefore recited, be designated as the Company’s “First Mortgage Bonds, Pollution Control Series 2003.”

          (b) Subject to the provisions of the Mortgage, the bonds of Series 2003 shall be issuable without limitation as to the aggregate principal amount thereof.

          SECTION 2.02. Form, Date, Maturity Date, Interest Rate and Interest Payment Dates of Bonds. (a) The definitive bonds of Series 2003 shall be in engraved, lithographed, printed or type-written form and shall be registered bonds without coupons, and such bonds and the Trustee’s certificate to be endorsed thereon shall be substantially in the forms included in Exhibit A hereto. The bonds of Series 2003 shall be dated as provided in Section 3.01 of the Mortgage, as amended by Supplemental Indenture dated April 1, 1967. All bonds of Series 2003 shall mature on May 15, 2017.

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          (b) The bonds of Series 2003 shall bear interest on each day that they are outstanding at a rate per annum which is equal to the weighted-average interest rate borne on the IDFA Bonds outstanding on such date; provided, however, such interest rate on the bonds of Series 2003 shall not exceed 12% per annum. The bonds of Series 2003 shall bear interest until the principal thereof shall be paid in full. Interest on the bonds of Series 2003 shall be payable to the record holder thereof on the dates that interest is payable on the IDFA Bonds.

          (c) The interest on the bonds of Series 2003 so payable on any interest payment date shall, subject to the exceptions provided in Section 3.01 of the Mortgage, as amended by said Supplemental Indenture dated April 1, 1967, be paid to the person in whose name such bond is registered on such interest payment date.

          SECTION 2.03. Bonds Issued as Collateral Security. The bonds of Series 2003 shall be issued, delivered, and pledged to, and registered in the name of, the trustee under the IDFA Indenture in order to secure and provide for, and as collateral security for, the due and punctual payment of the principal, premium, if any, and interest due from time to time on the IDFA Bonds.

          SECTION 2.04. Credit for Payments on IDFA Bonds. (a) The Company shall receive a credit against its obligation to make any payment of interest on the bonds of Series 2003, whether on an interest payment date, at maturity, upon redemption, upon acceleration or otherwise, in an amount equal to the amount, if any, paid by or for the account of the Company in respect of any corresponding payment of interest on the IDFA Bonds. So long as all the bonds of Series 2003 are pledged as described in Section 2.03, the obligation of the Company to make any payment with respect to the principal of the bonds of Series 2003 shall be credited in full if, at the time that any such payment of principal shall be due, there shall have been paid by or for the account of the Company the then due principal of all IDFA Bonds which are outstanding.

          (b) The Trustee may conclusively presume that the obligation of the Company to pay the principal of, and premium, if any, and interest on, the bonds of Series 2003 as the same shall become due and payable has been credited in accordance with this Section 2.04 unless and until it shall have received a written notice (including a telex, telegram, telecopy or other form of written telecommunication) from the trustee under the IDFA Indenture stating that payment of the principal of, or premium, if any, or interest on, the IDFA Bonds has become due and payable and has not been fully paid and specifying the amount of funds required to make such payment.

          SECTION 2.05. Execution of Bonds. The bonds of Series 2003 shall be executed on behalf of the Company by its President or one of its Vice Presidents, manually or by facsimile signature, and shall have its corporate seal affixed thereto or a facsimile of such seal imprinted thereon, attested by its Secretary or one of its Assistant Secretaries, manually or by facsimile signature, all as may be provided by resolution of the Board of Directors of the Company. In case any officer or officers whose signature or signatures, manual or facsimile, shall appear upon any bond of Series 2003 shall cease to be such officer or officers before such bond shall have been actually authenticated and delivered, such bond nevertheless may be issued, authenticated and delivered with the same force and effect as though the person or persons whose signature or

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signatures, manual or facsimile, appear thereon had not ceased to be such officer or officers of the Company.

          SECTION 2.06. Medium and Places of Payment of Principal of, and Premium, If Any, and Interest on, Bonds; Transferability and Exchangeability. The principal of, and premium, if any, and the interest on the bonds of Series 2003 shall be payable in any coin or currency of the United States of America which at the time of payment is legal tender for the payment of public and private debts, and such principal, premium, if any, and interest shall be payable at the office or agency of the Company in the City of Chicago, State of Illinois, and such bonds shall be transferable and exchangeable, in the manner provided in Sections 3.09 and 3.10 of the Mortgage, at said office or agency. No charge shall be made by the Company to the registered owner of any bond of Series 2003 for the registration of transfer of such bond or for the exchange thereof for bonds of the same series of other authorized denominations, except, in the case of any transfer, a charge sufficient to reimburse the Company for any stamp or other tax or governmental charge required to be paid by the Company or the Trustee.

          SECTION 2.07. Denominations and Numbering of Bonds. The bonds of Series 2003 shall be issued in the denomination of $1,000 and in such multiples of $1,000 as shall from time to time hereafter be determined and authorized by the Board of Directors of the Company or by any officer or officers of the Company authorized to make such determination, the authorization of the denomination of any bond of Series 2003 to be conclusively evidenced by the execution thereof on behalf of the Company. Bonds of Series 2003 shall each be numbered R-1 and consecutively upwards.

          SECTION 2.08. Temporary Bonds. Until definitive bonds of Series 2003 are ready for delivery, there may be authenticated and issued in lieu of any thereof and subject to all of the provisions, limitations, and conditions set forth in Section 3.11 of the Mortgage, temporary registered bonds of Series 2003 without coupons.

          SECTION 2.09. Optional Redemption of Bonds. Upon the notice and in the manner provided in the paragraph under the heading “Optional Redemption” of the IDFA Bonds, the bonds of Series 2003 may be redeemed, at the option of the Company, on and after the date determined thereunder, in whole at any time or in part from time to time, at the redemption prices (expressed as percentages of the principal amount of each bond of Series 2003 or portion thereof to be redeemed) set forth therein, plus accrued interest to the redemption date.

          SECTION 2.10. Mandatory Redemption. Upon the notice and in the manner provided in the paragraphs under the heading “Mandatory Redemption” of the IDFA Bonds, the bonds of Series 2003 shall be redeemed by the Company in whole, or as provided under such paragraphs in part, at 100% of the principal amount thereof plus accrued interest to the redemption date.

          SECTION 2.11. Default Mandatory Redemption. The bonds of Series 2003 shall be redeemed promptly, without notice, by the Company in whole at 100% of the principal amount thereof plus accrued interest to the date of redemption following receipt by the Trustee of written notice from the trustee under the IDFA Indenture stating that the principal of the IDFA

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Bonds has been declared to be immediately due and payable as a result of an event of default under the IDFA Indenture.

ARTICLE III

CONFIRMATION OF LIEN

          The Company, for the equal and proportionate benefit and security of the holders of all bonds at any time issued under the Mortgage, hereby confirms the lien of the Mortgage upon, and hereby grants, bargains, sells, transfers, assigns, pledges, mortgages, warrants and conveys unto the Trustees, all property of the Company and all property hereafter acquired by the Company, other than (in each case) property which, by virtue of any of the provisions of the Mortgage, is excluded from such lien, and hereby confirms the title of the Trustees (as set forth in the Mortgage) in and to all such property. Without in any way limiting or restricting the generality of the foregoing, there is specifically included within the confirmation of lien and title hereinabove expressed the property of the Company legally described on Exhibit A attached hereto and made a part hereof.

ARTICLE IV

MISCELLANEOUS

          The terms and conditions of this Supplemental Indenture shall be deemed to be a part of the terms and conditions of the Mortgage for any and all purposes. The Mortgage, as supplemented by the indentures supplemental thereto dated subsequent to August 1, 1944 and referred to in the first paragraph of this Supplemental Indenture, and as further supplemented by this Supplemental Indenture, is in all respects hereby ratified and confirmed.

          This Supplemental Indenture shall bind and, subject to the provisions of Article XIV of the Mortgage, inure to the benefit of the respective successors and assigns of the parties hereto.

          Although this Supplemental Indenture is dated as of April 23, 2003, it shall be effective only from and after the actual time of its execution and delivery by the Company and the Trustee on the date indicated by their respective acknowledgments hereto annexed.

          This Supplemental Indenture may be simultaneously executed in any number of counterparts, and all such counterparts executed and delivered, each as an original, shall constitute but one and the same instrument.

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          IN WITNESS WHEREOF, Commonwealth Edison Company has caused this Supplemental Indenture to be executed in its name by its Vice President and Treasurer, and attested by one of its Assistant Secretaries, and BNY Midwest Trust Company, as Trustee under the Mortgage, has caused this Supplemental Indenture to be executed in its name by one of its Vice Presidents, and attested by one of its Assistant Secretaries, and D.G. Donovan, as Co-Trustee under the Mortgage, has hereunto affixed his signature, all as of the day and year first above written.

COMMONWEALTH EDISON COMPANY
By:
	J. Barry Mitchell
	Vice President and Treasurer

ATTEST:

Scott N. Peters
Assistant Secretary

BNY MIDWEST TRUST COMPANY
By:
	J. Bartolini
	Vice President

ATTEST:

C. Potter
Assistant Secretary

D.G. Donovan

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STATE OF ILLINOIS	)
	)
COUNTY OF COOK	)

          I, DENISE M. KERSCHHACKL, a Notary Public in and for said County, in the State aforesaid, DO HEREBY CERTIFY that J. BARRY MITCHELL, Vice President and Treasurer of Commonwealth Edison Company, an Illinois corporation, one of the parties described in and which executed the foregoing instrument, and SCOTT N. PETERS, an Assistant Secretary of said corporation, who are both personally known to me to be the same persons whose names are subscribed to the foregoing instrument as such Vice President and Treasurer and Assistant Secretary, respectively, and who are both personally known to me to be Vice President and Treasurer and Assistant Secretary, respectively, of said corporation, appeared before me this day in person and severally acknowledged that they signed, executed and delivered said instrument as their free and voluntary act as such Vice President and Treasurer and Assistant Secretary, respectively, of said corporation, and as the free and voluntary act of said corporation, for the uses and purposes therein set forth.

          GIVEN under my hand and notarial seal this 23^rd day of April, A.D. 2003.

Denise M. Kerschhackl
Notary Public

{SEAL}

My Commission expires February 15, 2005.

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STATE OF ILLINOIS	)
	)
COUNTY OF COOK	)

          I, A. HERNANDEZ, a Notary Public in and for said County, in the State aforesaid, DO HEREBY CERTIFY that J. BARTOLINI, Vice President of BNY Midwest Trust Company, an Illinois trust company, one of the parties described in and which executed the foregoing instrument, and C. POTTER, Assistant Secretary of said trust company, who are both personally known to me to be the same persons whose names are subscribed to the foregoing instrument as such Vice President and Assistant Secretary, respectively, and who are both personally known to me to be a Vice President and an Assistant Secretary, respectively, of said trust company, appeared before me this day in person and severally acknowledged that they signed, executed and delivered said instrument as their free and voluntary act as such Vice President and Assistant Secretary, respectively, of said trust company, and as the free and voluntary act of said trust company, for the uses and purposes therein set forth.

          GIVEN under my hand and notarial seal this 23^rd day of April, A.D. 2003.

A. Hernandez
Notary Public

{SEAL}

My Commission expires July 8, 2006.

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STATE OF ILLINOIS	)
	)
COUNTY OF COOK	)

          I, A. HERNANDEZ, a Notary Public in and for said County, in the State aforesaid, DO HEREBY CERTIFY that D.G. DONOVAN, one of the parties described in and which executed the foregoing instrument, who is personally known to me to be the same person whose name is subscribed to the foregoing instrument, appeared before me this day in person and acknowledged that he signed, executed and delivered said instrument as his free and voluntary act for the uses and purposes therein set forth.

          GIVEN under my hand and notarial seal this 23^rd day of April, A.D. 2003.

A. Hernandez
Notary Public

{SEAL}

My Commission expires July 8, 2006.

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EXHIBIT A
to
Supplemental Indenture

COMMONWEALTH EDISON COMPANY

First Mortgage Bond, Pollution Control Series 2003

Due May 15, 2017

          COMMONWEALTH EDISON COMPANY, an Illinois corporation (hereinafter called the “Company”), for value received, hereby promises to pay to                                         , as trustee under that certain Indenture of Trust dated as of May 1, 2003 between Illinois Development Finance Authority (“IDFA”) and said trustee, or registered assigns, on the fifteenth day of May, 2017, the sum of                      Dollars, and to pay interest on said sum from the date hereof until said sum shall be paid, at a rate per annum on each day which is equal to the weighted-average interest rate borne on the IDFA Bonds (as hereinafter defined) outstanding on such date, until the principal thereof shall be paid in full, subject to Section 2.04 of the Supplemental Indenture dated as of April 23, 2003 (the “Supplemental Indenture”), executed and delivered by the Company to the Trustees (as hereinafter defined), which provides for certain credits towards payment of principal of and interest on the bonds of this Series. Interest shall accrue on the bonds of this Series from the date of issuance hereof, and the payment thereof shall be credited as provided in Section 2.04(a) of the Supplemental Indenture unless and until the Trustee receives the notice contemplated by Section 2.04(b) of the Supplemental Indenture, whereupon the interest on the bonds of this Series shall become and remain due and payable until such time as the Trustee receives a further written notice (including a telex, telegram, telecopy or other form of written telecommunication) from the trustee under the IDFA Indenture (as hereinafter defined) stating that such payments need not continue. When interest is due and payable as described above, interest on the bonds of this Series shall be payable at the same time as interest on the IDFA Bonds and upon maturity, redemption, or acceleration of the bonds of this Series, subject to Section 2.04 of the Supplemental Indenture. The interest on each bond of this Series so payable on any interest payment date shall, subject to the exceptions provided in Section 3.01 of the Mortgage (as hereinafter defined), as amended by a supplemental indenture dated April 1, 1967, be paid to the person in whose name such bond is registered on the date of such payment. The principal of, and premium, if any, and the interest on, this bond shall be payable at the office or agency of the Company in the City of Chicago, State of Illinois in any coin or currency of the United States of America which at the time of payment is legal tender for the payment of public and private debts.

          This bond is one of the bonds of the Company, issued and to be issued in series from time to time under and in accordance with and, irrespective of the time of issue, equally and ratably secured by the Mortgage dated July 1, 1923, and indentures supplemental thereto, under which BNY Midwest Trust Company and D.G. Donovan (collectively, the “Trustees”) are now the Trustees, and is one of the First Mortgage Bonds, Pollution Control Series 2003 of the

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Company, the issuance of which is provided for by the Supplemental Indenture, executed and delivered by the Company to such Trustees, to which Mortgage and all indentures supplemental thereto reference is hereby made for a description of the property mortgaged and pledged, the nature and extent of the security, the rights of the holders and registered owners of said bonds, of the Company and of the Trustees in respect of the security, and the terms and conditions governing the issuance and security of said bonds. The term “Mortgage,” as hereinafter used, shall mean said Mortgage dated July 1, 1923, and all indentures supplemental thereto.

          With the consent of the Company and to the extent permitted by and as provided in the Mortgage, modifications or alterations of the Mortgage or of any indenture supplemental thereto and of the rights and obligations of the Company and of the holders and registered owners of the bonds may be made, and compliance with any provision of the Mortgage or any such supplemental indenture may be waived, by the affirmative vote of the holders and registered owners of not less than eighty per centum (80%) in principal amount of the bonds then outstanding under the Mortgage, and by the affirmative vote of the holders and registered owners of not less than eighty per centum (80%) in principal amount of the bonds of any series then outstanding under the Mortgage and affected by such modification or alteration, in case one or more but less than all of the series of bonds then outstanding under the Mortgage are so affected, but in any case excluding bonds disqualified from voting by reason of the Company’s interest therein as provided in the Mortgage; subject, however, to the condition, among other conditions stated in the Mortgage, that no such modification or alteration shall be made which will permit the extension of the time or times of payment of the principal of or the interest or the premium, if any, on this bond, or the reduction in the principal amount hereof or in the rate of interest or the amount of any premium hereon, or any other modification in the terms of payment of such principal, interest or premium, which terms of payment are unconditional, or, otherwise than as permitted by the Mortgage, the creation of any lien ranking prior to or on a parity with the lien of the Mortgage with respect to any of the mortgaged property, all as more fully provided in the Mortgage.

          The bonds of this Series are subject to redemption, as provided in the Supplemental Indenture.

          In case of certain completed defaults specified in the Mortgage, the principal of this bond may be declared or may become due and payable in the manner and with the effect provided in the Mortgage.

          No recourse shall be had for the payment of the principal of or the interest on this bond, or for any claim based hereon, or otherwise in respect hereof or of the Mortgage, to or against any incorporator, stockholder, officer or director, past, present or future, of the Company or of any successor corporation, either directly or through the Company or such successor corporation, under any constitution or statute or rule of law, or by the enforcement of any assessment or penalty, or otherwise, all such liability of incorporators, stockholders, directors and officers being waived and released by the registered owner hereof by the acceptance of this bond and being likewise waived and released by the terms of the Mortgage, all as more fully provided therein.

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          This bond is transferable by the registered owner hereof, in person or by duly authorized attorney, at the office or agency of the Company in the City of Chicago, State of Illinois, upon surrender and cancellation of this bond; and thereupon a new registered bond or bonds without coupons of the same aggregate principal amount and series will, upon the payment of charges as provided in the Mortgage, be issued to the transferee in exchange herefor.

          Bonds of this Series are issuable only in registered form without coupons and in the denominations of $1,000 each and any authorized multiple thereof. As provided in the Mortgage, such bonds are exchangeable for registered bonds of the same series as between authorized denominations. Any such exchange may be made by the registered owner of any such bond or bonds upon presentation thereof for that purpose at the office or agency of the Company in the City of Chicago, State of Illinois.

          This bond shall not be entitled to any security or benefit under the Mortgage or be valid or become obligatory for any purpose unless and until it shall have been authenticated by the execution by the corporate Trustee, or its successor in trust under the Mortgage, of the certificate endorsed hereon.

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          IN WITNESS WHEREOF, Commonwealth Edison Company has caused this bond to be executed in its name by its President or one of its Vice-Presidents, and has caused its corporate seal to be hereto affixed, attested by its Secretary or one of its Assistant Secretaries, as of the ___day of                     , 20___.

	COMMONWEALTH EDISON COMPANY
[SEAL]
	By:
		President

ATTEST:

Secretary

(General Form of Trustee’s Certificate)

          This bond is one of the bonds of the series designated herein, referred to and described in the within mentioned Supplemental Indenture dated as of April 23, 2003.

BNY MIDWEST TRUST COMPANY
By:
	Authorized Officer

Illinois Commerce Commission Identification No.                     

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ABBREVIATIONS

          The following abbreviations, when used in the inscription on the face of this instrument, shall be construed as though they were written out in full according to applicable laws or regulations:

TEN COM -	as tenants in common
TEN ENT -	as tenants by the entireties
JT TEN -	as joint tenants with right of survivorship and not as tenants in common

UNIF GIFT MIN ACT -	Custodian
	(Cust)	(Minors)
	under Uniform Gifts to Minors Act
	(State)

     Additional abbreviations may also be used though not in the above list.

          FOR VALUE RECEIVED the undersigned hereby sell(s), assign(s), and transfer(s) unto

PLEASE INSERT SOCIAL SECURITY OR

OTHER IDENTIFYING NUMBER OF ASSIGNEE

(Please print or typewrite name and address including postal zip code of assignee)

the within Bond and all rights thereunder, hereby irrevocably constituting and appointing                      attorney to transfer said Bond on the books of the Company, with full power of substitution in the premises.

Dated:
	NOTICE: The signature to this assignment must correspond with the name as written upon the face of the within instrument in every particular, without alteration or enlargement or any change whatever.

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EX-4.1.1(B)

Exhibit 4-1-1(B)

This instrument was prepared by,
and when recorded should be
returned to:

Richard W. Astle
Sidley Austin Brown & Wood LLP
Bank One Plaza
10 South Dearborn Street
Chicago, Illinois 60603

Supplemental Indenture

Dated as of September 10, 2003

Commonwealth Edison Company

to

BNY Midwest Trust Company

and

D.G. Donovan

Trustees Under Mortgage Dated July 1, 1923,

and Certain

Indentures Supplemental Thereto

Providing for Issuance of

FIRST MORTGAGE BONDS, POLLUTION CONTROL SERIES 2003B
Due November 1, 2019

          This Supplemental Indenture, dated as of September 10, 2003, between Commonwealth Edison Company, a corporation organized and existing under the laws of the State of Illinois (hereinafter called the “Company”) having an address at 10 South Dearborn Street, 37^th floor, Chicago, Illinois 60603, party of the first part, BNY Midwest Trust Company, a trust company organized and existing under the laws of the State of Illinois having an address at 2 North LaSalle Street, Suite 1020, Chicago, Illinois 60602, and D.G. Donovan, an individual having an address at 2 North LaSalle Street, Suite 1020, Chicago, Illinois 60602, as Trustee and Co-Trustee, respectively, under the Mortgage of the Company dated July 1, 1923, as amended and supplemented by Supplemental Indenture dated August 1, 1944 and the subsequent supplemental indentures hereinafter mentioned, parties of the second part (said Trustee being hereinafter called the “Trustee”, the Trustee and said Co-Trustee being hereinafter together called the “Trustees”, and said Mortgage dated July 1, 1923, as amended and supplemented by said Supplemental Indenture dated August 1, 1944 and subsequent supplemental indentures, being hereinafter called the "Mortgage”),

WITNESSETH:

          WHEREAS, the Company duly executed and delivered the Mortgage to provide for the issue of, and to secure, its bonds, issuable in series and without limit as to principal amount except as provided in the Mortgage; and

          WHEREAS, the Company from time to time has executed and delivered supplemental indentures to the Mortgage to provide for (i) the creation of additional series of bonds secured by the Mortgage, (ii) the amendment of certain of the terms and provisions of the Mortgage and (iii) the confirmation of the lien of the Mortgage upon property of the Company, such supplemental indentures that are currently effective and the respective dates, parties thereto and purposes thereof, being as follows:

Supplemental
Indenture Date	Parties	Providing For
August 1, 1944	Company to Continental Illinois National Bank and Trust Company of Chicago and Edmond B. Stofft, as Trustee and Co-Trustee	Amendment and restatement of Mortgage dated July 1, 1923
August 1, 1946	Company to Continental Illinois National Bank and Trust Company of Chicago and Edmond B. Stofft, as Trustee and Co-Trustee	Confirmation of mortgage lien
April 1, 1953	Company to Continental Illinois National Bank and Trust Company of Chicago and Edmond B. Stofft, as Trustee and Co-Trustee	Confirmation of mortgage lien
March 31, 1967	Company to Continental Illinois National Bank and Trust Company of Chicago and Edward J. Friedrich, as Trustee and Co-Trustee	Confirmation of mortgage lien
April 1, 1967	Company to Continental Illinois National Bank and Trust Company of Chicago and Edward J. Friedrich, as Trustee and Co-Trustee	Amendment of Sections 3.01, 3.02, 3.05 and 3.14 of the Mortgage and issuance of First Mortgage 5-3/8% Bonds, Series Y

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Supplemental
Indenture Date	Parties	Providing For
February 28, 1969	Company to Continental Illinois National Bank and Trust Company of Chicago and Donald W. Alfvin, as Trustee and Co-Trustee	Confirmation of mortgage lien
May 29, 1970	Company to Continental Illinois National Bank and Trust Company of Chicago and Donald W. Alfvin, as Trustee and Co-Trustee	Confirmation of mortgage lien
June 1, 1971	Company to Continental Illinois National Bank and Trust Company of Chicago and Donald W. Alfvin, as Trustee and Co-Trustee	Confirmation of mortgage lien
April 1, 1972	Company to Continental Illinois National Bank and Trust Company of Chicago and Donald W. Alfvin, as Trustee and Co-Trustee	Confirmation of mortgage lien
May 31, 1972	Company to Continental Illinois National Bank and Trust Company of Chicago and Donald W. Alfvin, as Trustee and Co-Trustee	Confirmation of mortgage lien
June 15, 1973	Company to Continental Illinois National Bank and Trust Company of Chicago and Donald W. Alfvin, as Trustee and Co-Trustee	Confirmation of mortgage lien
May 31, 1974	Company to Continental Illinois National Bank and Trust Company of Chicago and Donald W. Alfvin, as Trustee and Co-Trustee	Confirmation of mortgage lien
June 13, 1975	Company to Continental Illinois National Bank and Trust Company of Chicago and Donald W. Alfvin, as Trustee and Co-Trustee	Confirmation of mortgage lien
May 28, 1976	Company to Continental Illinois National Bank and Trust Company of Chicago and Donald W. Alfvin, as Trustee and Co-Trustee	Confirmation of mortgage lien
June 3, 1977	Company to Continental Illinois National Bank and Trust Company of Chicago and Donald W. Alfvin, as Trustee and Co-Trustee	Confirmation of mortgage lien
May 17, 1978	Company to Continental Illinois National Bank and Trust Company of Chicago and Donald W. Alfvin, as Trustee and Co-Trustee	Confirmation of mortgage lien
August 31, 1978	Company to Continental Illinois National Bank and Trust Company of Chicago and Donald W. Alfvin, as Trustee and Co-Trustee	Confirmation of mortgage lien
June 18, 1979	Company to Continental Illinois National Bank and Trust Company of Chicago and Donald W. Alfvin, as Trustee and Co-Trustee	Confirmation of mortgage lien
June 20, 1980	Company to Continental Illinois National Bank and Trust Company of Chicago and Donald W. Alfvin, as Trustee and Co-Trustee	Confirmation of mortgage lien
April 16, 1981	Company to Continental Illinois National Bank and Trust Company of Chicago and Donald W. Alfvin, as Trustee and Co-Trustee	Confirmation of mortgage lien

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Supplemental
Indenture Date	Parties	Providing For
April 30, 1982	Company to Continental Illinois National Bank and Trust Company of Chicago and Donald W. Alfvin, as Trustee and Co-Trustee	Confirmation of mortgage lien
April 15, 1983	Company to Continental Illinois National Bank and Trust Company of Chicago and Donald W. Alfvin, as Trustee and Co-Trustee	Confirmation of mortgage lien
April 13, 1984	Company to Continental Illinois National Bank and Trust Company of Chicago and Donald W. Alfvin, as Trustee and Co-Trustee	Confirmation of mortgage lien
April 15, 1985	Company to Continental Illinois National Bank and Trust Company of Chicago and Donald W. Alfvin, as Trustee and Co-Trustee	Confirmation of mortgage lien
April 15, 1986	Company to Continental Illinois National Bank and Trust Company of Chicago and M.J. Kruger, as Trustee and Co-Trustee	Confirmation of mortgage lien
June 15, 1990	Company to Continental Bank, National Association and M.J. Kruger, as Trustee and Co-Trustee	Issuance of First Mortgage 9-7/8% Bonds, Series 75
October 1, 1991	Company to Continental Bank, National Association and M.J. Kruger, as Trustee and Co-Trustee	Issuance of First Mortgage 8-1/4% Bonds, Series 76 and First Mortgage 8-7/8% Bonds, Series 77
October 15, 1991	Company to Continental Bank, National Association and M.J. Kruger, as Trustee and Co-Trustee	Issuance of First Mortgage 8-3/8% Bonds, Series 78 and First Mortgage 9-1/8% Bonds, Series 79
May 15, 1992	Company to Continental Bank, National Association and M.J. Kruger, as Trustee and Co-Trustee	Issuance of First Mortgage 6-1/8% Bonds, Series 82 and First Mortgage 8% Bonds, Series 83
April 15, 1993	Company to Continental Bank, National Association and M.J. Kruger, as Trustee and Co-Trustee	Issuance of First Mortgage 7-5/8% Bonds, Series 92
June 15, 1993	Company to Continental Bank, National Association and M.J. Kruger, as Trustee and Co-Trustee	Issuance of First Mortgage 7% Bonds, Series 93 and First Mortgage 7-1/2% Bonds, Series 94
July 15, 1993	Company to Continental Bank, National Association and M.J. Kruger, as Trustee and Co-Trustee	Issuance of First Mortgage 6-5/8% Bonds, Series 96 and First Mortgage 7-3/4% Bonds, Series 97
January 15, 1994	Company to Continental Bank, National Association and M.J. Kruger, as Trustee and Co-Trustee	Issuance of First Mortgage Bonds, Pollution Control Series 1994A, 1994B and 1994C
December 1, 1994	Company to Bank of America Illinois and Robert J. Donahue, as Trustee and Co-Trustee	Issuance of First Mortgage Bonds, Pollution Control Series 1994D

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Supplemental
Indenture Date	Parties	Providing For
June 1, 1996	Company to Harris Trust and Savings Bank and D.G. Donovan, as Trustee and Co-Trustee	Issuance of First Mortgage Bonds, Pollution Control Series 1996A and 1996B
March 1, 2002	Company to BNY Midwest Trust Company and D.G. Donovan, as Trustee and Co-Trustee	Issuance of unregistered First Mortgage 6.15% Bonds, Series 98
May 20, 2002	Company to BNY Midwest Trust Company and D.G. Donovan, as Trustee and Co-Trustee	Issuance of First Mortgage Bonds, Pollution Control Series 2002
June 1, 2002	Company to BNY Midwest Trust Company and D.G. Donovan, as Trustee and Co-Trustee	Issuance of additional unregistered First Mortgage 6.15% Bonds, Series 98
October 7, 2002	Company to BNY Midwest Trust Company and D.G. Donovan, as Trustee and Co-Trustee	Issuance of registered First Mortgage 6.15% Bonds, Series 98 in exchange for unregistered First Mortgage 6.15% Bonds, Series 98
January 13, 2003	Company to BNY Midwest Trust Company and D.G. Donovan, as Trustee and Co-Trustee	Issuance of First Mortgage 3.700% Bonds, Series 99 and First Mortgage 5.875% Bonds, Series 100
March 14, 2003	Company to BNY Midwest Trust Company and D.G. Donovan, as Trustee and Co-Trustee	Issuance of First Mortgage 4.70% Bonds, Series 101
April 23, 2003	Company to BNY Midwest Trust Company and D.G. Donovan, as Trustee and Co-Trustee	Issuance of First Mortgage Bonds, Pollution Control Series 2003
August 13, 2003	Company to BNY Midwest Trust Company and D.G. Donovan, as Trustee and Co-Trustee	Issuance of First Mortgage 4.74% Bonds, Series 102

          WHEREAS, the respective designations, maturity dates and principal amounts of the bonds of each series presently outstanding under, and secured by, the Mortgage and the several supplemental indentures above referred to, are as follows:

Designation	Maturity Date	Principal Amount
First Mortgage 9-7/8% Bonds, Series 75	June 15, 2020	$	54,171,000
First Mortgage 8-1/4% Bonds, Series 76	October 1, 2006		100,000,000
First Mortgage 8-3/8% Bonds, Series 78	October 15, 2006		125,000,000
First Mortgage 8% Bonds, Series 83	May 15, 2008		140,000,000
First Mortgage 7-5/8% Bonds, Series 92	April 15, 2013		218,500,000
First Mortgage 7% Bonds, Series 93	July 1, 2005		225,000,000
First Mortgage 7-1/2% Bonds, Series 94	July 1, 2013		147,000,000
First Mortgage 7-3/4% Bonds, Series 97	July 15, 2023		150,000,000
First Mortgage 5.3% Bonds, Pollution Control Series 1994A	January 15, 2004		26,000,000

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Designation	Maturity Date	Principal Amount
First Mortgage 5.7% Bonds, Pollution Control Series 1994B	January 15, 2009		20,000,000
First Mortgage 5.85% Bonds, Pollution Control Series 1994C	January 15, 2014		20,000,000
First Mortgage 6.75% Bonds, Pollution Control Series 1994D	March 1, 2015		91,000,000
First Mortgage 4.4% Bonds, Pollution Control Series 1996A	December 1, 2006		110,000,000
First Mortgage 4.4% Bonds, Pollution Control Series 1996B	December 1, 2006		89,400,000
First Mortgage 6.15% Bonds, Series 98	March 15, 2012		600,000,000
First Mortgage Bonds, Pollution Control Series 2002	April 15, 2013		100,000,000
First Mortgage 3.700% Bonds, Series 99	February 1, 2008		350,000,000
First Mortgage 5.875% Bonds, Series 100	February 1, 2033		350,000,000
First Mortgage 4.70% Bonds, Series 101	April 15, 2015		395,000,000
First Mortgage Bonds, Pollution Control Series 2003	May 15, 2017		40,000,000
First Mortgage 4.74% Bonds, Series 102	August 15, 2010		250,000,000
	Total	$	3,601,071,000

          WHEREAS, the Mortgage provides for the issuance from time to time thereunder, in series, of bonds of the Company for the purposes and subject to the limitations therein specified; and

          WHEREAS, the Company desires, by this Supplemental Indenture, to create an additional series of bonds to be issuable under the Mortgage, such bonds to be designated “First Mortgage Bonds, Pollution Control Series 2003B” (hereinafter called the “bonds of Series 2003B”) and the terms and provisions to be contained in the bonds of Series 2003B or to be otherwise applicable thereto to be as set forth in this Supplemental Indenture; and

          WHEREAS, the bonds of Series 2003B and the Trustee’s certificate to be endorsed thereon shall be substantially in the forms included in Exhibit A hereto; and

          WHEREAS, the Company is legally empowered and has been duly authorized by the necessary corporate action and by order of the Illinois Commerce Commission to make, execute and deliver this Supplemental Indenture, and to create, as an additional series of bonds of the Company, the bonds of Series 2003B, and all acts and things whatsoever necessary to make this Supplemental Indenture, when executed and delivered by the Company and the Trustees, a valid, binding and legal instrument, and to make the bonds of Series 2003B, when authenticated by the Trustee and issued as provided in the Mortgage and in this Supplemental

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Indenture, the valid, binding and legal obligations of the Company, entitled in all respects to the security of the Mortgage, as amended and supplemented, have been done and performed;

          NOW, THEREFORE, in consideration of the premises and of the sum of one dollar duly paid by the Trustees to the Company, and for other good and valuable consideration, the receipt of which is hereby acknowledged, the parties hereto do hereby agree as follows:

ARTICLE I

DEFINITIONS AND RULES OF CONSTRUCTION

          SECTION 1.01. Terms of the Mortgage. The terms used in this Supplemental Indenture which are defined in the Mortgage, unless otherwise specified herein, are used herein with the same meanings as in the Mortgage.

          SECTION 1.02. Definitions of New Terms. The following terms shall have the following meanings in this Supplemental Indenture:

     “IDFA” shall mean the Illinois Development Finance Authority, a political subdivision and body politic and corporate duly organized and validly existing under and by virtue of the laws of the State of Illinois.

     “IDFA Bonds” shall mean those certain Pollution Control Revenue Refunding Bonds (Commonwealth Edison Company Project) Series 2003B issued in the original aggregate principal amount of $42,200,000 under and pursuant to the terms of the IDFA Indenture.

     “IDFA Indenture” shall mean that certain Indenture of Trust dated as of September 1, 2003, between IDFA, as issuer, and Bank One, National Association, as trustee.

          SECTION 1.03. Rules of Construction. All references to any agreement refer to such agreement as modified, varied, or amended from time to time by the parties thereto (including any permitted successors or assigns) in accordance with its terms.

ARTICLE II

          SECTION 2.01. Designation and Issuance of Bonds. (a) The bonds of Series 2003B shall, as hereinbefore recited, be designated as the Company’s “First Mortgage Bonds, Pollution Control Series 2003B.”

          (b) Subject to the provisions of the Mortgage, the bonds of Series 2003B shall be issuable without limitation as to the aggregate principal amount thereof.

          SECTION 2.02. Form, Date, Maturity Date, Interest Rate and Interest Payment Dates of Bonds. (a) The definitive bonds of Series 2003B shall be in engraved, lithographed, printed or type-written form and shall be registered bonds without coupons, and such bonds and the Trustee’s certificate to be endorsed thereon shall be substantially in the forms included in

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Exhibit A hereto. The bonds of Series 2003B shall be dated as provided in Section 3.01 of the Mortgage, as amended by Supplemental Indenture dated April 1, 1967. All bonds of Series 2003B shall mature on November 1, 2019.

          (b) The bonds of Series 2003B shall bear interest on each day that they are outstanding at a rate per annum which is equal to the weighted-average interest rate borne on the IDFA Bonds outstanding on such date; provided, however, such interest rate on the bonds of Series 2003B shall not exceed 12% per annum. The bonds of Series 2003B shall bear interest until the principal thereof shall be paid in full. Interest on the bonds of Series 2003B shall be payable to the record holder thereof on the dates that interest is payable on the IDFA Bonds.

          (c) The interest on the bonds of Series 2003B so payable on any interest payment date shall, subject to the exceptions provided in Section 3.01 of the Mortgage, as amended by said Supplemental Indenture dated April 1, 1967, be paid to the person in whose name such bond is registered on such interest payment date.

          SECTION 2.03. Bonds Issued as Collateral Security. The bonds of Series 2003B shall be issued, delivered, and pledged to, and registered in the name of, the trustee under the IDFA Indenture in order to secure and provide for, and as collateral security for, the due and punctual payment of the principal, premium, if any, and interest due from time to time on the IDFA Bonds.

          SECTION 2.04. Credit for Payments on IDFA Bonds. (a) The Company shall receive a credit against its obligation to make any payment of interest on the bonds of Series 2003B, whether on an interest payment date, at maturity, upon redemption, upon acceleration or otherwise, in an amount equal to the amount, if any, paid by or for the account of the Company in respect of any corresponding payment of interest on the IDFA Bonds. So long as all the bonds of Series 2003B are pledged as described in Section 2.03, the obligation of the Company to make any payment with respect to the principal of the bonds of Series 2003B shall be credited in full if, at the time that any such payment of principal shall be due, there shall have been paid by or for the account of the Company the then due principal of all IDFA Bonds which are outstanding.

          (b) The Trustee may conclusively presume that the obligation of the Company to pay the principal of, and premium, if any, and interest on, the bonds of Series 2003B as the same shall become due and payable has been credited in accordance with this Section 2.04 unless and until it shall have received a written notice (including a telex, telegram, telecopy or other form of written telecommunication) from the trustee under the IDFA Indenture stating that payment of the principal of, or premium, if any, or interest on, the IDFA Bonds has become due and payable and has not been fully paid and specifying the amount of funds required to make such payment.

          SECTION 2.05. Execution of Bonds. The bonds of Series 2003B shall be executed on behalf of the Company by its President or one of its Vice Presidents, manually or by facsimile signature, and shall have its corporate seal affixed thereto or a facsimile of such seal imprinted thereon, attested by its Secretary or one of its Assistant Secretaries, manually or by facsimile signature, all as may be provided by resolution of the Board of Directors of the Company. In case any officer or officers whose signature or signatures, manual or facsimile,

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shall appear upon any bond of Series 2003B shall cease to be such officer or officers before such bond shall have been actually authenticated and delivered, such bond nevertheless may be issued, authenticated and delivered with the same force and effect as though the person or persons whose signature or signatures, manual or facsimile, appear thereon had not ceased to be such officer or officers of the Company.

          SECTION 2.06. Medium and Places of Payment of Principal of, and Premium, If Any, and Interest on, Bonds; Transferability and Exchangeability. The principal of, and premium, if any, and the interest on the bonds of Series 2003B shall be payable in any coin or currency of the United States of America which at the time of payment is legal tender for the payment of public and private debts, and such principal, premium, if any, and interest shall be payable at the office or agency of the Company in the City of Chicago, State of Illinois, and such bonds shall be transferable and exchangeable, in the manner provided in Sections 3.09 and 3.10 of the Mortgage, at said office or agency. No charge shall be made by the Company to the registered owner of any bond of Series 2003B for the registration of transfer of such bond or for the exchange thereof for bonds of the same series of other authorized denominations, except, in the case of any transfer, a charge sufficient to reimburse the Company for any stamp or other tax or governmental charge required to be paid by the Company or the Trustee.

          SECTION 2.07. Denominations and Numbering of Bonds. The bonds of Series 2003B shall be issued in the denomination of $1,000 and in such multiples of $1,000 as shall from time to time hereafter be determined and authorized by the Board of Directors of the Company or by any officer or officers of the Company authorized to make such determination, the authorization of the denomination of any bond of Series 2003B to be conclusively evidenced by the execution thereof on behalf of the Company. Bonds of Series 2003B shall each be numbered R-1 and consecutively upwards.

          SECTION 2.08. Temporary Bonds. Until definitive bonds of Series 2003B are ready for delivery, there may be authenticated and issued in lieu of any thereof and subject to all of the provisions, limitations, and conditions set forth in Section 3.11 of the Mortgage, temporary registered bonds of Series 2003B without coupons.

          SECTION 2.09. Optional Redemption of Bonds. Upon the notice and in the manner provided in the paragraph under the heading “Optional Redemption” of the IDFA Bonds, the bonds of Series 2003B may be redeemed in whole or in part, at the option of the Company, on the date or dates determined thereunder, at the redemption prices (expressed as percentages of the principal amount of each bond of Series 2003B or portion thereof to be redeemed) set forth therein, plus accrued interest to the redemption date.

          SECTION 2.10. Mandatory Redemption. Upon the notice and in the manner provided in the paragraphs under the heading “Mandatory Redemption” of the IDFA Bonds, the bonds of Series 2003B shall be redeemed by the Company in whole, or as provided under such paragraphs in part, at 100% of the principal amount thereof plus accrued interest to the redemption date.

          SECTION 2.11. Default Mandatory Redemption. The bonds of Series 2003B shall be redeemed promptly, without notice, by the Company in whole at 100% of the principal

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amount thereof plus accrued interest to the date of redemption following receipt by the Trustee of written notice from the trustee under the IDFA Indenture stating that the principal of the IDFA Bonds has been declared to be immediately due and payable as a result of an event of default under the IDFA Indenture.

ARTICLE III

CONFIRMATION OF LIEN

          The Company, for the equal and proportionate benefit and security of the holders of all bonds at any time issued under the Mortgage, hereby confirms the lien of the Mortgage upon, and hereby grants, bargains, sells, transfers, assigns, pledges, mortgages, warrants and conveys unto the Trustees, all property of the Company and all property hereafter acquired by the Company, other than (in each case) property which, by virtue of any of the provisions of the Mortgage, is excluded from such lien, and hereby confirms the title of the Trustees (as set forth in the Mortgage) in and to all such property. Without in any way limiting or restricting the generality of the foregoing, there is specifically included within the confirmation of lien and title hereinabove expressed the property of the Company legally described on Exhibit B attached hereto and made a part hereof.

ARTICLE IV

MISCELLANEOUS

          The terms and conditions of this Supplemental Indenture shall be deemed to be a part of the terms and conditions of the Mortgage for any and all purposes. The Mortgage, as supplemented by the indentures supplemental thereto dated subsequent to August 1, 1944 and referred to in the first paragraph of this Supplemental Indenture, and as further supplemented by this Supplemental Indenture, is in all respects hereby ratified and confirmed.

          This Supplemental Indenture shall bind and, subject to the provisions of Article XIV of the Mortgage, inure to the benefit of the respective successors and assigns of the parties hereto.

          Although this Supplemental Indenture is dated as of September 10, 2003, it shall be effective only from and after the actual time of its execution and delivery by the Company and the Trustees on the date indicated by their respective acknowledgments hereto annexed.

          This Supplemental Indenture may be simultaneously executed in any number of counterparts, and all such counterparts executed and delivered, each as an original, shall constitute but one and the same instrument.

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          IN WITNESS WHEREOF, Commonwealth Edison Company has caused this Supplemental Indenture to be executed in its name by its Vice President and Treasurer, and attested by one of its Assistant Secretaries, and BNY Midwest Trust Company, as Trustee under the Mortgage, has caused this Supplemental Indenture to be executed in its name by one of its Vice Presidents, and attested by one of its Assistant Vice Presidents, and D.G. Donovan, as Co-Trustee under the Mortgage, has hereunto affixed his signature, all as of the day and year first above written.

COMMONWEALTH EDISON COMPANY
By:
	J. Barry Mitchell
	Vice President and Treasurer

ATTEST:

Scott N. Peters
Assistant Secretary

BNY MIDWEST TRUST COMPANY
By:
	J. Bartolini
	Vice President

ATTEST:

M. Callahan
Assistant Vice President

D.G. Donovan

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STATE OF ILLINOIS	)
	)
COUNTY OF COOK	)

          I, MARY L. KWILOS, a Notary Public in and for said County, in the State aforesaid, DO HEREBY CERTIFY that J. Barry Mitchell, Vice President and Treasurer of Commonwealth Edison Company, an Illinois corporation, one of the parties described in and which executed the foregoing instrument, and Scott N. Peters, Assistant Secretary of said corporation, who are both personally known to me to be the same persons whose names are subscribed to the foregoing instrument as such Vice President and Treasurer and Assistant Secretary, respectively, and who are both personally known to me to be Vice President and Treasurer and an Assistant Secretary, respectively, of said corporation, appeared before me this day in person and severally acknowledged that they signed, executed and delivered said instrument as their free and voluntary act as such Vice President and Treasurer and Assistant Secretary, respectively, of said corporation, and as the free and voluntary act of said corporation, for the uses and purposes therein set forth.

          GIVEN under my hand and notarial seal this 11^th day of September, A.D. 2003.

Mary L. Kwilos
Notary Public

(NOTARIAL SEAL)

My Commission expires October 26, 2005.

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STATE OF ILLINOIS	)
	)
COUNTY OF COOK	)

          I, L. GARCIA, a Notary Public in and for said County, in the State aforesaid, DO HEREBY CERTIFY that J. BARTOLINI, Vice President of BNY Midwest Trust Company, an Illinois trust company, one of the parties described in and which executed the foregoing instrument, and M. CALLAHAN, Assistant Vice President of said trust company, who are both personally known to me to be the same persons whose names are subscribed to the foregoing instrument as such Vice President and Assistant Vice President, respectively, and who are both personally known to me to be a Vice President and an Assistant Vice President, respectively, of said trust company, appeared before me this day in person and severally acknowledged that they signed, executed and delivered said instrument as their free and voluntary act as such Vice President and Assistant Vice President, respectively, of said trust company, and as the free and voluntary act of said trust company, for the uses and purposes therein set forth.

          GIVEN under my hand and notarial seal this 11^th day of September, A.D. 2003.

L. Garcia
Notary Public

{SEAL}

My Commission expires July 8, 2006.

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STATE OF ILLINOIS	)
	)
COUNTY OF COOK	)

          I, L. GARCIA, a Notary Public in and for said County, in the State aforesaid, DO HEREBY CERTIFY that D.G. DONOVAN, one of the parties described in and which executed the foregoing instrument, who is personally known to me to be the same person whose name is subscribed to the foregoing instrument, appeared before me this day in person and acknowledged that he signed, executed and delivered said instrument as his free and voluntary act for the uses and purposes therein set forth.

          GIVEN under my hand and notarial seal this 11^th day of September, A.D. 2003.

L. Garcia
Notary Public

{SEAL}

My Commission expires July 8, 2006.

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EXHIBIT A
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Supplemental Indenture

COMMONWEALTH EDISON COMPANY

First Mortgage Bond, Pollution Control Series 2003B

Due November 1, 2019

          COMMONWEALTH EDISON COMPANY, an Illinois corporation (hereinafter called the “Company”), for value received, hereby promises to pay to                                         , as trustee under that certain Indenture of Trust dated as of September 1, 2003 between Illinois Development Finance Authority (“IDFA”) and said trustee, or registered assigns, on the first day of November, 2019, the sum of                      Dollars, and to pay interest on said sum from the date hereof until said sum shall be paid, at a rate per annum on each day which is equal to the weighted-average interest rate borne on the IDFA Bonds (as hereinafter defined) outstanding on such date, until the principal thereof shall be paid in full, subject to Section 2.04 of the Supplemental Indenture dated as of September 10, 2003 (the “Supplemental Indenture”), executed and delivered by the Company to the Trustees (as hereinafter defined), which provides for certain credits towards payment of principal of and interest on the bonds of this Series. Interest shall accrue on the bonds of this Series from the date of issuance hereof, and the payment thereof shall be credited as provided in Section 2.04(a) of the Supplemental Indenture unless and until the Trustee receives the notice contemplated by Section 2.04(b) of the Supplemental Indenture, whereupon the interest on the bonds of this Series shall become and remain due and payable until such time as the Trustee receives a further written notice (including a telex, telegram, telecopy or other form of written telecommunication) from the trustee under the IDFA Indenture (as hereinafter defined) stating that such payments need not continue. When interest is due and payable as described above, interest on the bonds of this Series shall be payable at the same time as interest on the IDFA Bonds and upon maturity, redemption, or acceleration of the bonds of this Series, subject to Section 2.04 of the Supplemental Indenture. The interest on each bond of this Series so payable on any interest payment date shall, subject to the exceptions provided in Section 3.01 of the Mortgage (as hereinafter defined), as amended by a supplemental indenture dated April 1, 1967, be paid to the person in whose name such bond is registered on the date of such payment. The principal of, and premium, if any, and the interest on, this bond shall be payable at the office or agency of the Company in the City of Chicago, State of Illinois in any coin or currency of the United States of America which at the time of payment is legal tender for the payment of public and private debts.

          This bond is one of the bonds of the Company, issued and to be issued in series from time to time under and in accordance with and, irrespective of the time of issue, equally and ratably secured by the Mortgage dated July 1, 1923, and indentures supplemental thereto, under which BNY Midwest Trust Company and D.G. Donovan (collectively, the “Trustees”) are now the Trustees, and is one of the First Mortgage Bonds, Pollution Control Series 2003B of the

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Company, the issuance of which is provided for by the Supplemental Indenture, executed and delivered by the Company to such Trustees, to which Mortgage and all indentures supplemental thereto reference is hereby made for a description of the property mortgaged and pledged, the nature and extent of the security, the rights of the holders and registered owners of said bonds, of the Company and of the Trustees in respect of the security, and the terms and conditions governing the issuance and security of said bonds. The term “Mortgage,” as hereinafter used, shall mean said Mortgage dated July 1, 1923, and all indentures supplemental thereto.

          With the consent of the Company and to the extent permitted by and as provided in the Mortgage, modifications or alterations of the Mortgage or of any indenture supplemental thereto and of the rights and obligations of the Company and of the holders and registered owners of the bonds may be made, and compliance with any provision of the Mortgage or any such supplemental indenture may be waived, by the affirmative vote of the holders and registered owners of not less than eighty per centum (80%) in principal amount of the bonds then outstanding under the Mortgage, and by the affirmative vote of the holders and registered owners of not less than eighty per centum (80%) in principal amount of the bonds of any series then outstanding under the Mortgage and affected by such modification or alteration, in case one or more but less than all of the series of bonds then outstanding under the Mortgage are so affected, but in any case excluding bonds disqualified from voting by reason of the Company’s interest therein as provided in the Mortgage; subject, however, to the condition, among other conditions stated in the Mortgage, that no such modification or alteration shall be made which will permit the extension of the time or times of payment of the principal of or the interest or the premium, if any, on this bond, or the reduction in the principal amount hereof or in the rate of interest or the amount of any premium hereon, or any other modification in the terms of payment of such principal, interest or premium, which terms of payment are unconditional, or, otherwise than as permitted by the Mortgage, the creation of any lien ranking prior to or on a parity with the lien of the Mortgage with respect to any of the mortgaged property, all as more fully provided in the Mortgage.

          The bonds of this Series are subject to redemption, as provided in the Supplemental Indenture.

          In case of certain completed defaults specified in the Mortgage, the principal of this bond may be declared or may become due and payable in the manner and with the effect provided in the Mortgage.

          No recourse shall be had for the payment of the principal of or the interest on this bond, or for any claim based hereon, or otherwise in respect hereof or of the Mortgage, to or against any incorporator, stockholder, officer or director, past, present or future, of the Company or of any successor corporation, either directly or through the Company or such successor corporation, under any constitution or statute or rule of law, or by the enforcement of any assessment or penalty, or otherwise, all such liability of incorporators, stockholders, directors and officers being waived and released by the registered owner hereof by the acceptance of this bond and being likewise waived and released by the terms of the Mortgage, all as more fully provided therein.

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          This bond is transferable by the registered owner hereof, in person or by duly authorized attorney, at the office or agency of the Company in the City of Chicago, State of Illinois, upon surrender and cancellation of this bond; and thereupon a new registered bond or bonds without coupons of the same aggregate principal amount and series will, upon the payment of charges as provided in the Mortgage, be issued to the transferee in exchange herefor.

          Bonds of this Series are issuable only in registered form without coupons and in the denominations of $1,000 each and any authorized multiple thereof. As provided in the Mortgage, such bonds are exchangeable for registered bonds of the same series as between authorized denominations. Any such exchange may be made by the registered owner of any such bond or bonds upon presentation thereof for that purpose at the office or agency of the Company in the City of Chicago, State of Illinois.

          This bond shall not be entitled to any security or benefit under the Mortgage or be valid or become obligatory for any purpose unless and until it shall have been authenticated by the execution by the corporate Trustee, or its successor in trust under the Mortgage, of the certificate endorsed hereon.

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     IN WITNESS WHEREOF, Commonwealth Edison Company has caused this bond to be executed in its name by its President or one of its Vice-Presidents, and has caused its corporate seal to be hereto affixed, attested by its Secretary or one of its Assistant Secretaries, as of the ___day of                     , 20___.

	COMMONWEALTH EDISON COMPANY
[SEAL]
	By:
		President

ATTEST:

Secretary

(General Form of Trustee’s Certificate)

          This bond is one of the bonds of the series designated herein, referred to and described in the within mentioned Supplemental Indenture dated as of September 10, 2003.

BNY MIDWEST TRUST COMPANY
By:
	Authorized Officer

Illinois Commerce Commission Identification No.                     

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ABBREVIATIONS

          The following abbreviations, when used in the inscription on the face of this instrument, shall be construed as though they were written out in full according to applicable laws or regulations:

TEN COM -	as tenants in common
TEN ENT -	as tenants by the entireties
JT TEN -	as joint tenants with right of survivorship and not as tenants in common

UNIF GIFT MIN ACT -	Custodian
	(Cust)	(Minors)
	under Uniform Gifts to Minors Act
	(State)

     Additional abbreviations may also be used though not in the above list.

          FOR VALUE RECEIVED the undersigned hereby sell(s), assign(s), and transfer(s) unto

PLEASE INSERT SOCIAL SECURITY OR

OTHER IDENTIFYING NUMBER OF ASSIGNEE

(Please print or typewrite name and address including postal zip code of assignee)

the within Bond and all rights thereunder, hereby irrevocably constituting and appointing                      attorney to transfer said Bond on the books of the Company, with full power of substitution in the premises.

Dated:
	NOTICE: The signature to this assignment must correspond with the name as written upon the face of the within instrument in every particular, without alteration or enlargement or any change whatever.

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EX-4.1.1(C)

Exhibit 4-1-1(C)

This instrument was prepared by,
and when recorded should be
returned to:

Richard W. Astle
Sidley Austin Brown & Wood LLP
Bank One Plaza
10 South Dearborn Street
Chicago, Illinois 60603

Supplemental Indenture

Dated as of November 10, 2003

Commonwealth Edison Company

to

BNY Midwest Trust Company

and

D.G. Donovan

Trustees Under Mortgage Dated July 1, 1923,

and Certain

Indentures Supplemental Thereto

Providing for Issuance of

FIRST MORTGAGE BONDS, POLLUTION CONTROL SERIES 2003C
Due March 1, 2020

          This Supplemental Indenture, dated as of November 10, 2003, between Commonwealth Edison Company, a corporation organized and existing under the laws of the State of Illinois (hereinafter called the “Company”) having an address at 10 South Dearborn Street, 37^th floor, Chicago, Illinois 60603, party of the first part, BNY Midwest Trust Company, a trust company organized and existing under the laws of the State of Illinois having an address at 2 North LaSalle Street, Suite 1020, Chicago, Illinois 60602, and D.G. Donovan, an individual having an address at 2 North LaSalle Street, Suite 1020, Chicago, Illinois 60602, as Trustee and Co-Trustee, respectively, under the Mortgage of the Company dated July 1, 1923, as amended and supplemented by Supplemental Indenture dated August 1, 1944 and the subsequent supplemental indentures hereinafter mentioned, parties of the second part (said Trustee being hereinafter called the “Trustee”, the Trustee and said Co-Trustee being hereinafter together called the “Trustees”, and said Mortgage dated July 1, 1923, as amended and supplemented by said Supplemental Indenture dated August 1, 1944 and subsequent supplemental indentures, being hereinafter called the “Mortgage”),

W I T N E S S E T H:

          WHEREAS, the Company duly executed and delivered the Mortgage to provide for the issue of, and to secure, its bonds, issuable in series and without limit as to principal amount except as provided in the Mortgage; and

          WHEREAS, the Company from time to time has executed and delivered supplemental indentures to the Mortgage to provide for (i) the creation of additional series of bonds secured by the Mortgage, (ii) the amendment of certain of the terms and provisions of the Mortgage and (iii) the confirmation of the lien of the Mortgage upon property of the Company, such supplemental indentures that are currently effective and the respective dates, parties thereto and purposes thereof, being as follows:

Supplemental
Indenture Date	Parties	Providing For
August 1, 1944	Company to Continental Illinois National Bank and Trust Company of Chicago and Edmond B. Stofft, as Trustee and Co-Trustee	Amendment and restatement of Mortgage dated July 1, 1923
August 1, 1946	Company to Continental Illinois National Bank and Trust Company of Chicago and Edmond B. Stofft, as Trustee and Co-Trustee	Confirmation of mortgage lien
April 1, 1953	Company to Continental Illinois National Bank and Trust Company of Chicago and Edmond B. Stofft, as Trustee and Co-Trustee	Confirmation of mortgage lien
March 31, 1967	Company to Continental Illinois National Bank and Trust Company of Chicago and Edward J. Friedrich, as Trustee and Co-Trustee	Confirmation of mortgage lien
April 1, 1967	Company to Continental Illinois National Bank and Trust Company of Chicago and Edward J. Friedrich, as Trustee and Co-Trustee	Amendment of Sections 3.01, 3.02, 3.05 and 3.14 of the Mortgage and issuance of First Mortgage 5-3/8% Bonds, Series Y

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Supplemental
Indenture Date	Parties	Providing For
February 28, 1969	Company to Continental Illinois National Bank and Trust Company of Chicago and Donald W. Alfvin, as Trustee and Co-Trustee	Confirmation of mortgage lien
May 29, 1970	Company to Continental Illinois National Bank and Trust Company of Chicago and Donald W. Alfvin, as Trustee and Co-Trustee	Confirmation of mortgage lien
June 1, 1971	Company to Continental Illinois National Bank and Trust Company of Chicago and Donald W. Alfvin, as Trustee and Co-Trustee	Confirmation of mortgage lien
April 1, 1972	Company to Continental Illinois National Bank and Trust Company of Chicago and Donald W. Alfvin, as Trustee and Co-Trustee	Confirmation of mortgage lien
May 31, 1972	Company to Continental Illinois National Bank and Trust Company of Chicago and Donald W. Alfvin, as Trustee and Co-Trustee	Confirmation of mortgage lien
June 15, 1973	Company to Continental Illinois National Bank and Trust Company of Chicago and Donald W. Alfvin, as Trustee and Co-Trustee	Confirmation of mortgage lien
May 31, 1974	Company to Continental Illinois National Bank and Trust Company of Chicago and Donald W. Alfvin, as Trustee and Co-Trustee	Confirmation of mortgage lien
June 13, 1975	Company to Continental Illinois National Bank and Trust Company of Chicago and Donald W. Alfvin, as Trustee and Co-Trustee	Confirmation of mortgage lien
May 28, 1976	Company to Continental Illinois National Bank and Trust Company of Chicago and Donald W. Alfvin, as Trustee and Co-Trustee	Confirmation of mortgage lien
June 3, 1977	Company to Continental Illinois National Bank and Trust Company of Chicago and Donald W. Alfvin, as Trustee and Co-Trustee	Confirmation of mortgage lien
May 17, 1978	Company to Continental Illinois National Bank and Trust Company of Chicago and Donald W. Alfvin, as Trustee and Co-Trustee	Confirmation of mortgage lien
August 31, 1978	Company to Continental Illinois National Bank and Trust Company of Chicago and Donald W. Alfvin, as Trustee and Co-Trustee	Confirmation of mortgage lien
June 18, 1979	Company to Continental Illinois National Bank and Trust Company of Chicago and Donald W. Alfvin, as Trustee and Co-Trustee	Confirmation of mortgage lien
June 20, 1980	Company to Continental Illinois National Bank and Trust Company of Chicago and Donald W. Alfvin, as Trustee and Co-Trustee	Confirmation of mortgage lien
April 16, 1981	Company to Continental Illinois National Bank and Trust Company of Chicago and Donald W. Alfvin, as Trustee and Co-Trustee	Confirmation of mortgage lien

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Supplemental
Indenture Date	Parties	Providing For
April 30, 1982	Company to Continental Illinois National Bank and Trust Company of Chicago and Donald W. Alfvin, as Trustee and Co-Trustee	Confirmation of mortgage lien
April 15, 1983	Company to Continental Illinois National Bank and Trust Company of Chicago and Donald W. Alfvin, as Trustee and Co-Trustee	Confirmation of mortgage lien
April 13, 1984	Company to Continental Illinois National Bank and Trust Company of Chicago and Donald W. Alfvin, as Trustee and Co-Trustee	Confirmation of mortgage lien
April 15, 1985	Company to Continental Illinois National Bank and Trust Company of Chicago and Donald W. Alfvin, as Trustee and Co-Trustee	Confirmation of mortgage lien
April 15, 1986	Company to Continental Illinois National Bank and Trust Company of Chicago and M.J. Kruger, as Trustee and Co-Trustee	Confirmation of mortgage lien
June 15, 1990	Company to Continental Bank, National Association and M.J. Kruger, as Trustee and Co-Trustee	Issuance of First Mortgage 9-7/8% Bonds, Series 75
October 1, 1991	Company to Continental Bank, National Association and M.J. Kruger, as Trustee and Co-Trustee	Issuance of First Mortgage 8-1/4% Bonds, Series 76 and First Mortgage 8-7/8% Bonds, Series 77
October 15, 1991	Company to Continental Bank, National Association and M.J. Kruger, as Trustee and Co-Trustee	Issuance of First Mortgage 8-3/8% Bonds, Series 78 and First Mortgage 9-1/8% Bonds, Series 79
May 15, 1992	Company to Continental Bank, National Association and M.J. Kruger, as Trustee and Co-Trustee	Issuance of First Mortgage 6-1/8% Bonds, Series 82 and First Mortgage 8% Bonds, Series 83
April 15, 1993	Company to Continental Bank, National Association and M.J. Kruger, as Trustee and Co-Trustee	Issuance of First Mortgage 7-5/8% Bonds, Series 92
June 15, 1993	Company to Continental Bank, National Association and M.J. Kruger, as Trustee and Co-Trustee	Issuance of First Mortgage 7% Bonds, Series 93 and First Mortgage 7-1/2% Bonds, Series 94
July 15, 1993	Company to Continental Bank, National Association and M.J. Kruger, as Trustee and Co-Trustee	Issuance of First Mortgage 6-5/8% Bonds, Series 96 and First Mortgage 7-3/4% Bonds, Series 97
January 15, 1994	Company to Continental Bank, National Association and M.J. Kruger, as Trustee and Co-Trustee	Issuance of First Mortgage Bonds, Pollution Control Series 1994A, 1994B and 1994C
December 1, 1994	Company to Bank of America Illinois and Robert J. Donahue, as Trustee and Co-Trustee	Issuance of First Mortgage Bonds, Pollution Control Series 1994D

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Supplemental
Indenture Date	Parties	Providing For
June 1, 1996	Company to Harris Trust and Savings Bank and D.G. Donovan, as Trustee and Co-Trustee	Issuance of First Mortgage Bonds, Pollution Control Series 1996A and 1996B
March 1, 2002	Company to BNY Midwest Trust Company and D.G. Donovan, as Trustee and Co-Trustee	Issuance of unregistered First Mortgage 6.15% Bonds, Series 98
May 20, 2002	Company to BNY Midwest Trust Company and D.G. Donovan, as Trustee and Co-Trustee	Issuance of First Mortgage Bonds, Pollution Control Series 2002
June 1, 2002	Company to BNY Midwest Trust Company and D.G. Donovan, as Trustee and Co-Trustee	Issuance of additional unregistered First Mortgage 6.15% Bonds, Series 98
October 7, 2002	Company to BNY Midwest Trust Company and D.G. Donovan, as Trustee and Co-Trustee	Issuance of registered First Mortgage 6.15% Bonds, Series 98 in exchange for unregistered First Mortgage 6.15% Bonds, Series 98
January 13, 2003	Company to BNY Midwest Trust Company and D.G. Donovan, as Trustee and Co-Trustee	Issuance of First Mortgage 3.700% Bonds, Series 99 and First Mortgage 5.875% Bonds, Series 100
March 14, 2003	Company to BNY Midwest Trust Company and D.G. Donovan, as Trustee and Co-Trustee	Issuance of First Mortgage 4.70% Bonds, Series 101
April 23, 2003	Company to BNY Midwest Trust Company and D.G. Donovan, as Trustee and Co-Trustee	Issuance of First Mortgage Bonds, Pollution Control Series 2003
August 13, 2003	Company to BNY Midwest Trust Company and D.G. Donovan, as Trustee and Co-Trustee	Issuance of First Mortgage 4.74% Bonds, Series 102
September 10, 2003	Company to BNY Midwest Trust Company and D.G. Donovan, as Trustee and Co-Trustee	Issuance of First Mortgage Bonds, Pollution Control Series 2003B

          WHEREAS, the respective designations, maturity dates and principal amounts of the bonds of each series presently outstanding under, and secured by, the Mortgage and the several supplemental indentures above referred to, are as follows:

Designation	Maturity Date	Principal Amount
First Mortgage 9-7/8% Bonds, Series 75	June 15, 2020	$	54,171,000
First Mortgage 8-1/4% Bonds, Series 76	October 1, 2006		100,000,000
First Mortgage 8-3/8% Bonds, Series 78	October 15, 2006		125,000,000
First Mortgage 8% Bonds, Series 83	May 15, 2008		140,000,000
First Mortgage 7-5/8% Bonds, Series 92	April 15, 2013		218,500,000
First Mortgage 7% Bonds, Series 93	July 1, 2005		225,000,000
First Mortgage 7-1/2% Bonds, Series 94	July 1, 2013		147,000,000
First Mortgage 7-3/4% Bonds, Series 97	July 15, 2023		150,000,000

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Designation	Maturity Date	Principal Amount
First Mortgage 5.3% Bonds, Pollution Control Series 1994A	January 15, 2004		26,000,000
First Mortgage 5.7% Bonds, Pollution Control Series 1994B	January 15, 2009		20,000,000
First Mortgage 5.85% Bonds, Pollution Control Series 1994C	January 15, 2014		20,000,000
First Mortgage 6.75% Bonds, Pollution Control Series 1994D	March 1, 2015		91,000,000
First Mortgage 4.4% Bonds, Pollution Control Series 1996A	December 1, 2006		110,000,000
First Mortgage 4.4% Bonds, Pollution Control Series 1996B	December 1, 2006		89,400,000
First Mortgage 6.15% Bonds, Series 98	March 15, 2012		600,000,000
First Mortgage Bonds, Pollution Control Series 2002	April 15, 2013		100,000,000
First Mortgage 3.700% Bonds, Series 99	February 1, 2008		350,000,000
First Mortgage 5.875% Bonds, Series 100	February 1, 2033		350,000,000
First Mortgage 4.70% Bonds, Series 101	April 15, 2015		395,000,000
First Mortgage Bonds, Pollution Control Series 2003	May 15, 2017		40,000,000
First Mortgage 4.74% Bonds, Series 102	August 15, 2010		250,000,000
First Mortgage Bonds, Pollution Control Series 2003B	November 1, 2019		42,200,000
	Total	$	3,643,271,000

          WHEREAS, the Mortgage provides for the issuance from time to time thereunder, in series, of bonds of the Company for the purposes and subject to the limitations therein specified; and

          WHEREAS, the Company desires, by this Supplemental Indenture, to create an additional series of bonds to be issuable under the Mortgage, such bonds to be designated “First Mortgage Bonds, Pollution Control Series 2003C” (hereinafter called the “bonds of Series 2003C”) and the terms and provisions to be contained in the bonds of Series 2003C or to be otherwise applicable thereto to be as set forth in this Supplemental Indenture; and

          WHEREAS, the bonds of Series 2003C and the Trustee’s certificate to be endorsed thereon shall be substantially in the forms included in Exhibit A hereto; and

          WHEREAS, the Company is legally empowered and has been duly authorized by the necessary corporate action and by order of the Illinois Commerce Commission to make, execute and deliver this Supplemental Indenture, and to create, as an additional series of bonds of the Company, the bonds of Series 2003C, and all acts and things whatsoever necessary to

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make this Supplemental Indenture, when executed and delivered by the Company and the Trustees, a valid, binding and legal instrument, and to make the bonds of Series 2003C, when authenticated by the Trustee and issued as provided in the Mortgage and in this Supplemental Indenture, the valid, binding and legal obligations of the Company, entitled in all respects to the security of the Mortgage, as amended and supplemented, have been done and performed;

          NOW, THEREFORE, in consideration of the premises and of the sum of one dollar duly paid by the Trustees to the Company, and for other good and valuable consideration, the receipt of which is hereby acknowledged, the parties hereto do hereby agree as follows:

ARTICLE I

DEFINITIONS AND RULES OF CONSTRUCTION

          SECTION 1.01. Terms of the Mortgage. The terms used in this Supplemental Indenture which are defined in the Mortgage, unless otherwise specified herein, are used herein with the same meanings as in the Mortgage.

          SECTION 1.02. Definitions of New Terms. The following terms shall have the following meanings in this Supplemental Indenture:

     “IDFA” shall mean the Illinois Development Finance Authority, a political subdivision and body politic and corporate duly organized and validly existing under and by virtue of the laws of the State of Illinois.

     “IDFA Bonds” shall mean those certain Pollution Control Revenue Refunding Bonds (Commonwealth Edison Company Project) Series 2003C issued in the original aggregate principal amount of $50,000,000 under and pursuant to the terms of the IDFA Indenture.

     “IDFA Indenture” shall mean that certain Indenture of Trust dated as of November 1, 2003, between IDFA, as issuer, and Bank One, National Association, as trustee.

          SECTION 1.03. Rules of Construction. All references to any agreement refer to such agreement as modified, varied, or amended from time to time by the parties thereto (including any permitted successors or assigns) in accordance with its terms.

ARTICLE II

          SECTION 2.01. Designation and Issuance of Bonds. (a) The bonds of Series 2003C shall, as hereinbefore recited, be designated as the Company’s “First Mortgage Bonds, Pollution Control Series 2003C.”

          (b) Subject to the provisions of the Mortgage, the bonds of Series 2003C shall be issuable without limitation as to the aggregate principal amount thereof.

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          SECTION 2.02. Form, Date, Maturity Date, Interest Rate and Interest Payment Dates of Bonds. (a) The definitive bonds of Series 2003C shall be in engraved, lithographed, printed or type-written form and shall be registered bonds without coupons, and such bonds and the Trustee’s certificate to be endorsed thereon shall be substantially in the forms included in Exhibit A hereto. The bonds of Series 2003C shall be dated as provided in Section 3.01 of the Mortgage, as amended by Supplemental Indenture dated April 1, 1967. All bonds of Series 2003C shall mature on March 1, 2020.

          (b) The bonds of Series 2003C shall bear interest on each day that they are outstanding at a rate per annum which is equal to the weighted-average interest rate borne on the IDFA Bonds outstanding on such date; provided, however, such interest rate on the bonds of Series 2003C shall not exceed 12% per annum. The bonds of Series 2003C shall bear interest until the principal thereof shall be paid in full. Interest on the bonds of Series 2003C shall be payable to the record holder thereof on the dates that interest is payable on the IDFA Bonds.

          (c) The interest on the bonds of Series 2003C so payable on any interest payment date shall, subject to the exceptions provided in Section 3.01 of the Mortgage, as amended by said Supplemental Indenture dated April 1, 1967, be paid to the person in whose name such bond is registered on such interest payment date.

          SECTION 2.03. Bonds Issued as Collateral Security. The bonds of Series 2003C shall be issued, delivered, and pledged to, and registered in the name of, the trustee under the IDFA Indenture in order to secure and provide for, and as collateral security for, the due and punctual payment of the principal, premium, if any, and interest due from time to time on the IDFA Bonds.

          SECTION 2.04. Credit for Payments on IDFA Bonds. (a) The Company shall receive a credit against its obligation to make any payment of interest on the bonds of Series 2003C, whether on an interest payment date, at maturity, upon redemption, upon acceleration or otherwise, in an amount equal to the amount, if any, paid by or for the account of the Company in respect of any corresponding payment of interest on the IDFA Bonds. So long as all the bonds of Series 2003C are pledged as described in Section 2.03, the obligation of the Company to make any payment with respect to the principal of the bonds of Series 2003C shall be credited in full if, at the time that any such payment of principal shall be due, there shall have been paid by or for the account of the Company the then due principal of all IDFA Bonds which are outstanding.

          (b) The Trustee may conclusively presume that the obligation of the Company to pay the principal of, and premium, if any, and interest on, the bonds of Series 2003C as the same shall become due and payable has been credited in accordance with this Section 2.04 unless and until it shall have received a written notice (including a telex, telegram, telecopy or other form of written telecommunication) from the trustee under the IDFA Indenture stating that payment of the principal of, or premium, if any, or interest on, the IDFA Bonds has become due and payable and has not been fully paid and specifying the amount of funds required to make such payment.

          SECTION 2.05. Execution of Bonds. The bonds of Series 2003C shall be executed on behalf of the Company by its President or one of its Vice Presidents, manually or by

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facsimile signature, and shall have its corporate seal affixed thereto or a facsimile of such seal imprinted thereon, attested by its Secretary or one of its Assistant Secretaries, manually or by facsimile signature, all as may be provided by resolution of the Board of Directors of the Company. In case any officer or officers whose signature or signatures, manual or facsimile, shall appear upon any bond of Series 2003C shall cease to be such officer or officers before such bond shall have been actually authenticated and delivered, such bond nevertheless may be issued, authenticated and delivered with the same force and effect as though the person or persons whose signature or signatures, manual or facsimile, appear thereon had not ceased to be such officer or officers of the Company.

          SECTION 2.06. Medium and Places of Payment of Principal of, and Premium, If Any, and Interest on, Bonds; Transferability and Exchangeability. The principal of, and premium, if any, and the interest on the bonds of Series 2003C shall be payable in any coin or currency of the United States of America which at the time of payment is legal tender for the payment of public and private debts, and such principal, premium, if any, and interest shall be payable at the office or agency of the Company in the City of Chicago, State of Illinois, and such bonds shall be transferable and exchangeable, in the manner provided in Sections 3.09 and 3.10 of the Mortgage, at said office or agency. No charge shall be made by the Company to the registered owner of any bond of Series 2003C for the registration of transfer of such bond or for the exchange thereof for bonds of the same series of other authorized denominations, except, in the case of any transfer, a charge sufficient to reimburse the Company for any stamp or other tax or governmental charge required to be paid by the Company or the Trustee.

          SECTION 2.07. Denominations and Numbering of Bonds. The bonds of Series 2003C shall be issued in the denomination of $1,000 and in such multiples of $1,000 as shall from time to time hereafter be determined and authorized by the Board of Directors of the Company or by any officer or officers of the Company authorized to make such determination, the authorization of the denomination of any bond of Series 2003C to be conclusively evidenced by the execution thereof on behalf of the Company. Bonds of Series 2003C shall each be numbered R-1 and consecutively upwards.

          SECTION 2.08. Temporary Bonds. Until definitive bonds of Series 2003C are ready for delivery, there may be authenticated and issued in lieu of any thereof and subject to all of the provisions, limitations, and conditions set forth in Section 3.11 of the Mortgage, temporary registered bonds of Series 2003C without coupons.

          SECTION 2.09. Optional Redemption of Bonds. Upon the notice and in the manner provided in the paragraph under the heading “Optional Redemption” of the IDFA Bonds, the bonds of Series 2003C may be redeemed in whole or in part, at the option of the Company, on the date or dates determined thereunder, at the redemption prices (expressed as percentages of the principal amount of each bond of Series 2003C or portion thereof to be redeemed) set forth therein, plus accrued interest to the redemption date.

          SECTION 2.10. Mandatory Redemption. Upon the notice and in the manner provided in the paragraphs under the heading “Mandatory Redemption” of the IDFA Bonds, the bonds of Series 2003C shall be redeemed by the Company in whole, or as provided under

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such paragraphs in part, at 100% of the principal amount thereof plus accrued interest to the redemption date.

          SECTION 2.11. Default Mandatory Redemption. The bonds of Series 2003C shall be redeemed promptly, without notice, by the Company in whole at 100% of the principal amount thereof plus accrued interest to the date of redemption following receipt by the Trustee of written notice from the trustee under the IDFA Indenture stating that the principal of the IDFA Bonds has been declared to be immediately due and payable as a result of an event of default under the IDFA Indenture.

ARTICLE III

CONFIRMATION OF LIEN

          The Company, for the equal and proportionate benefit and security of the holders of all bonds at any time issued under the Mortgage, hereby confirms the lien of the Mortgage upon, and hereby grants, bargains, sells, transfers, assigns, pledges, mortgages, warrants and conveys unto the Trustees, all property of the Company and all property hereafter acquired by the Company, other than (in each case) property which, by virtue of any of the provisions of the Mortgage, is excluded from such lien, and hereby confirms the title of the Trustees (as set forth in the Mortgage) in and to all such property. Without in any way limiting or restricting the generality of the foregoing, there is specifically included within the confirmation of lien and title hereinabove expressed the property of the Company legally described on Exhibit B attached hereto and made a part hereof.

ARTICLE IV

MISCELLANEOUS

          The terms and conditions of this Supplemental Indenture shall be deemed to be a part of the terms and conditions of the Mortgage for any and all purposes. The Mortgage, as supplemented by the indentures supplemental thereto dated subsequent to August 1, 1944 and referred to in the first paragraph of this Supplemental Indenture, and as further supplemented by this Supplemental Indenture, is in all respects hereby ratified and confirmed.

          This Supplemental Indenture shall bind and, subject to the provisions of Article XIV of the Mortgage, inure to the benefit of the respective successors and assigns of the parties hereto.

          Although this Supplemental Indenture is dated as of November 10, 2003, it shall be effective only from and after the actual time of its execution and delivery by the Company and the Trustees on the date indicated by their respective acknowledgments hereto annexed.

          This Supplemental Indenture may be simultaneously executed in any number of counterparts, and all such counterparts executed and delivered, each as an original, shall constitute but one and the same instrument.

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          IN WITNESS WHEREOF, Commonwealth Edison Company has caused this Supplemental Indenture to be executed in its name by its Vice President and Treasurer, and attested by one of its Assistant Secretaries, and BNY Midwest Trust Company, as Trustee under the Mortgage, has caused this Supplemental Indenture to be executed in its name by one of its Vice Presidents, and attested by one of its Assistant Vice Presidents, and D.G. Donovan, as Co-Trustee under the Mortgage, has hereunto affixed his signature, all as of the day and year first above written.

	COMMONWEALTH EDISON COMPANY
	By:
		J. Barry Mitchell
		Vice President and Treasurer
ATTEST:
Scott N. Peters
Assistant Secretary
	BNY MIDWEST TRUST COMPANY
	By:
		J. Bartolini
		Vice President
ATTEST:
C. Potter
Assistant Vice President
	D.G. Donovan

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STATE OF ILLINOIS	)
	)
COUNTY OF COOK	)

     I, DENISE M. KERSCHHACKL, a Notary Public in and for said County, in the State aforesaid, DO HEREBY CERTIFY that J. Barry Mitchell, Vice President and Treasurer of Commonwealth Edison Company, an Illinois corporation, one of the parties described in and which executed the foregoing instrument, and Scott N. Peters, Assistant Secretary of said corporation, who are both personally known to me to be the same persons whose names are subscribed to the foregoing instrument as such Vice President and Treasurer and Assistant Secretary, respectively, and who are both personally known to me to be Vice President and Treasurer and an Assistant Secretary, respectively, of said corporation, appeared before me this day in person and severally acknowledged that they signed, executed and delivered said instrument as their free and voluntary act as such Vice President and Treasurer and Assistant Secretary, respectively, of said corporation, and as the free and voluntary act of said corporation, for the uses and purposes therein set forth.

     GIVEN under my hand and notarial seal this 12^th day of November, A.D. 2003.

Denise M. Kerschhackl
Notary Public

(NOTARIAL SEAL)

My Commission expires February 15, 2005.

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STATE OF ILLINOIS	)
	)
COUNTY OF COOK	)

          I, A. HERNANDEZ, a Notary Public in and for said County, in the State aforesaid, DO HEREBY CERTIFY that J. BARTOLINI, Vice President of BNY Midwest Trust Company, an Illinois trust company, one of the parties described in and which executed the foregoing instrument, and C. POTTER, Assistant Vice President of said trust company, who are both personally known to me to be the same persons whose names are subscribed to the foregoing instrument as such Vice President and Assistant Vice President, respectively, and who are both personally known to me to be a Vice President and an Assistant Vice President, respectively, of said trust company, appeared before me this day in person and severally acknowledged that they signed, executed and delivered said instrument as their free and voluntary act as such Vice President and Assistant Vice President, respectively, of said trust company, and as the free and voluntary act of said trust company, for the uses and purposes therein set forth.

          GIVEN under my hand and notarial seal this 10^th day of November, A.D. 2003.

A. Hernandez
Notary Public

{SEAL}

My Commission expires July 8, 2006.

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STATE OF ILLINOIS	)
	)
COUNTY OF COOK	)

          I, A. HERNANDEZ, a Notary Public in and for said County, in the State aforesaid, DO HEREBY CERTIFY that D.G. DONOVAN, one of the parties described in and which executed the foregoing instrument, who is personally known to me to be the same person whose name is subscribed to the foregoing instrument, appeared before me this day in person and acknowledged that he signed, executed and delivered said instrument as his free and voluntary act for the uses and purposes therein set forth.

          GIVEN under my hand and notarial seal this 10^th day of November, A.D. 2003.

A. Hernandez
Notary Public

{SEAL}

My Commission expires July 8, 2006.

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EXHIBIT A
to
Supplemental Indenture

COMMONWEALTH EDISON COMPANY

First Mortgage Bond, Pollution Control Series 2003C

Due March 1, 2020

          COMMONWEALTH EDISON COMPANY, an Illinois corporation (hereinafter called the “Company”), for value received, hereby promises to pay to                                         , as trustee under that certain Indenture of Trust dated as of November 1, 2003 between Illinois Development Finance Authority (“IDFA”) and said trustee, or registered assigns, on the first day of March, 2020, the sum of                      Dollars, and to pay interest on said sum from the date hereof until said sum shall be paid, at a rate per annum on each day which is equal to the weighted-average interest rate borne on the IDFA Bonds (as hereinafter defined) outstanding on such date, until the principal thereof shall be paid in full, subject to Section 2.04 of the Supplemental Indenture dated as of November 10, 2003 (the “Supplemental Indenture”), executed and delivered by the Company to the Trustees (as hereinafter defined), which provides for certain credits towards payment of principal of and interest on the bonds of this Series. Interest shall accrue on the bonds of this Series from the date of issuance hereof, and the payment thereof shall be credited as provided in Section 2.04(a) of the Supplemental Indenture unless and until the Trustee receives the notice contemplated by Section 2.04(b) of the Supplemental Indenture, whereupon the interest on the bonds of this Series shall become and remain due and payable until such time as the Trustee receives a further written notice (including a telex, telegram, telecopy or other form of written telecommunication) from the trustee under the IDFA Indenture (as hereinafter defined) stating that such payments need not continue. When interest is due and payable as described above, interest on the bonds of this Series shall be payable at the same time as interest on the IDFA Bonds and upon maturity, redemption, or acceleration of the bonds of this Series, subject to Section 2.04 of the Supplemental Indenture. The interest on each bond of this Series so payable on any interest payment date shall, subject to the exceptions provided in Section 3.01 of the Mortgage (as hereinafter defined), as amended by a supplemental indenture dated April 1, 1967, be paid to the person in whose name such bond is registered on the date of such payment. The principal of, and premium, if any, and the interest on, this bond shall be payable at the office or agency of the Company in the City of Chicago, State of Illinois in any coin or currency of the United States of America which at the time of payment is legal tender for the payment of public and private debts.

          This bond is one of the bonds of the Company, issued and to be issued in series from time to time under and in accordance with and, irrespective of the time of issue, equally and ratably secured by the Mortgage dated July 1, 1923, and indentures supplemental thereto, under which BNY Midwest Trust Company and D.G. Donovan (collectively, the “Trustees”) are now the Trustees, and is one of the First Mortgage Bonds, Pollution Control Series 2003C of the

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Company, the issuance of which is provided for by the Supplemental Indenture, executed and delivered by the Company to such Trustees, to which Mortgage and all indentures supplemental thereto reference is hereby made for a description of the property mortgaged and pledged, the nature and extent of the security, the rights of the holders and registered owners of said bonds, of the Company and of the Trustees in respect of the security, and the terms and conditions governing the issuance and security of said bonds. The term “Mortgage,” as hereinafter used, shall mean said Mortgage dated July 1, 1923, and all indentures supplemental thereto.

          With the consent of the Company and to the extent permitted by and as provided in the Mortgage, modifications or alterations of the Mortgage or of any indenture supplemental thereto and of the rights and obligations of the Company and of the holders and registered owners of the bonds may be made, and compliance with any provision of the Mortgage or any such supplemental indenture may be waived, by the affirmative vote of the holders and registered owners of not less than eighty per centum (80%) in principal amount of the bonds then outstanding under the Mortgage, and by the affirmative vote of the holders and registered owners of not less than eighty per centum (80%) in principal amount of the bonds of any series then outstanding under the Mortgage and affected by such modification or alteration, in case one or more but less than all of the series of bonds then outstanding under the Mortgage are so affected, but in any case excluding bonds disqualified from voting by reason of the Company’s interest therein as provided in the Mortgage; subject, however, to the condition, among other conditions stated in the Mortgage, that no such modification or alteration shall be made which will permit the extension of the time or times of payment of the principal of or the interest or the premium, if any, on this bond, or the reduction in the principal amount hereof or in the rate of interest or the amount of any premium hereon, or any other modification in the terms of payment of such principal, interest or premium, which terms of payment are unconditional, or, otherwise than as permitted by the Mortgage, the creation of any lien ranking prior to or on a parity with the lien of the Mortgage with respect to any of the mortgaged property, all as more fully provided in the Mortgage.

          The bonds of this Series are subject to redemption, as provided in the Supplemental Indenture.

          In case of certain completed defaults specified in the Mortgage, the principal of this bond may be declared or may become due and payable in the manner and with the effect provided in the Mortgage.

          No recourse shall be had for the payment of the principal of or the interest on this bond, or for any claim based hereon, or otherwise in respect hereof or of the Mortgage, to or against any incorporator, stockholder, officer or director, past, present or future, of the Company or of any successor corporation, either directly or through the Company or such successor corporation, under any constitution or statute or rule of law, or by the enforcement of any assessment or penalty, or otherwise, all such liability of incorporators, stockholders, directors and officers being waived and released by the registered owner hereof by the acceptance of this bond and being likewise waived and released by the terms of the Mortgage, all as more fully provided therein.

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          This bond is transferable by the registered owner hereof, in person or by duly authorized attorney, at the office or agency of the Company in the City of Chicago, State of Illinois, upon surrender and cancellation of this bond; and thereupon a new registered bond or bonds without coupons of the same aggregate principal amount and series will, upon the payment of charges as provided in the Mortgage, be issued to the transferee in exchange herefor.

          Bonds of this Series are issuable only in registered form without coupons and in the denominations of $1,000 each and any authorized multiple thereof. As provided in the Mortgage, such bonds are exchangeable for registered bonds of the same series as between authorized denominations. Any such exchange may be made by the registered owner of any such bond or bonds upon presentation thereof for that purpose at the office or agency of the Company in the City of Chicago, State of Illinois.

          This bond shall not be entitled to any security or benefit under the Mortgage or be valid or become obligatory for any purpose unless and until it shall have been authenticated by the execution by the corporate Trustee, or its successor in trust under the Mortgage, of the certificate endorsed hereon.

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          IN WITNESS WHEREOF, Commonwealth Edison Company has caused this bond to be executed in its name by its President or one of its Vice-Presidents, and has caused its corporate seal to be hereto affixed, attested by its Secretary or one of its Assistant Secretaries, as of the                      day of                                         , 20                    .

	COMMONWEALTH EDISON COMPANY
[SEAL]
	By:
		President
ATTEST:
Secretary

(General Form of Trustee’s Certificate)

          This bond is one of the bonds of the series designated herein, referred to and described in the within mentioned Supplemental Indenture dated as of November 10, 2003.

BNY MIDWEST TRUST COMPANY
By:
	Authorized Officer

Illinois Commerce Commission Identification No. 6233

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ABBREVIATIONS

          The following abbreviations, when used in the inscription on the face of this instrument, shall be construed as though they were written out in full according to applicable laws or regulations:

TEN COM -	as tenants in common
TEN ENT -	as tenants by the entireties
JT TEN -	as joint tenants with right of survivorship and not as tenants in common

UNIF GIFT MIN ACT -	Custodian
	(Cust)	(Minors)
	under	Uniform	Gifts	to	Minors	Act
	(State)

Additional abbreviations may also be used though not in the above list.

FOR VALUE RECEIVED the undersigned hereby sell(s), assign(s), and transfer(s) unto

PLEASE INSERT SOCIAL SECURITY OR
OTHER IDENTIFYING NUMBER OF ASSIGNEE

(Please print or typewrite name and address including postal zip code of assignee)

the within Bond and all rights thereunder, hereby irrevocably constituting and appointing                                          attorney to transfer said Bond on the books of the Company, with full power of substitution in the premises.

Dated:
	NOTICE: The signature to this assignment must correspond with the name as written upon the face of the within instrument in every particular, without alteration or enlargement or any change whatever.

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EX-4.1.1(D)

Exhibit 4-1-1(D)

This instrument was prepared by,
and when recorded should be
returned to:

Richard W. Astle
Sidley Austin Brown & Wood LLP
Bank One Plaza
10 South Dearborn Street
Chicago, Illinois 60603

Supplemental Indenture

Dated as of December 5, 2003

Commonwealth Edison Company

to

BNY Midwest Trust Company

and

D.G. Donovan

Trustees Under Mortgage Dated July 1, 1923,

and Certain

Indentures Supplemental Thereto

Providing for Issuance of

FIRST MORTGAGE BONDS, POLLUTION CONTROL SERIES 2003D
Due January 15, 2014

          This Supplemental Indenture, dated as of December 5, 2003, between Commonwealth Edison Company, a corporation organized and existing under the laws of the State of Illinois (hereinafter called the “Company”) having an address at 10 South Dearborn Street, 37^th floor, Chicago, Illinois 60603, party of the first part, BNY Midwest Trust Company, a trust company organized and existing under the laws of the State of Illinois having an address at 2 North LaSalle Street, Suite 1020, Chicago, Illinois 60602, and D.G. Donovan, an individual having an address at 2 North LaSalle Street, Suite 1020, Chicago, Illinois 60602, as Trustee and Co-Trustee, respectively, under the Mortgage of the Company dated July 1, 1923, as amended and supplemented by Supplemental Indenture dated August 1, 1944 and the subsequent supplemental indentures hereinafter mentioned, parties of the second part (said Trustee being hereinafter called the “Trustee”, the Trustee and said Co-Trustee being hereinafter together called the “Trustees”, and said Mortgage dated July 1, 1923, as amended and supplemented by said Supplemental Indenture dated August 1, 1944 and subsequent supplemental indentures, being hereinafter called the “Mortgage”),

W I T N E S S E T H:

          WHEREAS, the Company duly executed and delivered the Mortgage to provide for the issue of, and to secure, its bonds, issuable in series and without limit as to principal amount except as provided in the Mortgage; and

          WHEREAS, the Company from time to time has executed and delivered supplemental indentures to the Mortgage to provide for (i) the creation of additional series of bonds secured by the Mortgage, (ii) the amendment of certain of the terms and provisions of the Mortgage and (iii) the confirmation of the lien of the Mortgage upon property of the Company, such supplemental indentures that are currently effective and the respective dates, parties thereto and purposes thereof, being as follows:

Supplemental
Indenture Date	Parties	Providing For
August 1, 1944	Company to Continental Illinois National Bank and Trust Company of Chicago and Edmond B. Stofft, as Trustee and Co-Trustee	Amendment and restatement of Mortgage dated July 1, 1923
August 1, 1946	Company to Continental Illinois National Bank and Trust Company of Chicago and Edmond B. Stofft, as Trustee and Co-Trustee	Confirmation of mortgage lien
April 1, 1953	Company to Continental Illinois National Bank and Trust Company of Chicago and Edmond B. Stofft, as Trustee and Co-Trustee	Confirmation of mortgage lien
March 31, 1967	Company to Continental Illinois National Bank and Trust Company of Chicago and Edward J. Friedrich, as Trustee and Co-Trustee	Confirmation of mortgage lien
April 1, 1967	Company to Continental Illinois National Bank and Trust Company of Chicago and Edward J. Friedrich, as Trustee and Co-Trustee	Amendment of Sections 3.01, 3.02, 3.05 and 3.14 of the Mortgage and issuance of First Mortgage 5-3/8% Bonds, Series Y

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Supplemental
Indenture Date	Parties	Providing For
February 28, 1969	Company to Continental Illinois National Bank and Trust Company of Chicago and Donald W. Alfvin, as Trustee and Co-Trustee	Confirmation of mortgage lien
May 29, 1970	Company to Continental Illinois National Bank and Trust Company of Chicago and Donald W. Alfvin, as Trustee and Co-Trustee	Confirmation of mortgage lien
June 1, 1971	Company to Continental Illinois National Bank and Trust Company of Chicago and Donald W. Alfvin, as Trustee and Co-Trustee	Confirmation of mortgage lien
April 1, 1972	Company to Continental Illinois National Bank and Trust Company of Chicago and Donald W. Alfvin, as Trustee and Co-Trustee	Confirmation of mortgage lien
May 31, 1972	Company to Continental Illinois National Bank and Trust Company of Chicago and Donald W. Alfvin, as Trustee and Co-Trustee	Confirmation of mortgage lien
June 15, 1973	Company to Continental Illinois National Bank and Trust Company of Chicago and Donald W. Alfvin, as Trustee and Co-Trustee	Confirmation of mortgage lien
May 31, 1974	Company to Continental Illinois National Bank and Trust Company of Chicago and Donald W. Alfvin, as Trustee and Co-Trustee	Confirmation of mortgage lien
June 13, 1975	Company to Continental Illinois National Bank and Trust Company of Chicago and Donald W. Alfvin, as Trustee and Co-Trustee	Confirmation of mortgage lien
May 28, 1976	Company to Continental Illinois National Bank and Trust Company of Chicago and Donald W. Alfvin, as Trustee and Co-Trustee	Confirmation of mortgage lien
June 3, 1977	Company to Continental Illinois National Bank and Trust Company of Chicago and Donald W. Alfvin, as Trustee and Co-Trustee	Confirmation of mortgage lien
May 17, 1978	Company to Continental Illinois National Bank and Trust Company of Chicago and Donald W. Alfvin, as Trustee and Co-Trustee	Confirmation of mortgage lien
August 31, 1978	Company to Continental Illinois National Bank and Trust Company of Chicago and Donald W. Alfvin, as Trustee and Co-Trustee	Confirmation of mortgage lien
June 18, 1979	Company to Continental Illinois National Bank and Trust Company of Chicago and Donald W. Alfvin, as Trustee and Co-Trustee	Confirmation of mortgage lien
June 20, 1980	Company to Continental Illinois National Bank and Trust Company of Chicago and Donald W. Alfvin, as Trustee and Co-Trustee	Confirmation of mortgage lien
April 16, 1981	Company to Continental Illinois National Bank and Trust Company of Chicago and Donald W. Alfvin, as Trustee and Co-Trustee	Confirmation of mortgage lien

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Supplemental
Indenture Date	Parties	Providing For
April 30, 1982	Company to Continental Illinois National Bank and Trust Company of Chicago and Donald W. Alfvin, as Trustee and Co-Trustee	Confirmation of mortgage lien
April 15, 1983	Company to Continental Illinois National Bank and Trust Company of Chicago and Donald W. Alfvin, as Trustee and Co-Trustee	Confirmation of mortgage lien
April 13, 1984	Company to Continental Illinois National Bank and Trust Company of Chicago and Donald W. Alfvin, as Trustee and Co-Trustee	Confirmation of mortgage lien
April 15, 1985	Company to Continental Illinois National Bank and Trust Company of Chicago and Donald W. Alfvin, as Trustee and Co-Trustee	Confirmation of mortgage lien
April 15, 1986	Company to Continental Illinois National Bank and Trust Company of Chicago and M.J. Kruger, as Trustee and Co-Trustee	Confirmation of mortgage lien
June 15, 1990	Company to Continental Bank, National Association and M.J. Kruger, as Trustee and Co-Trustee	Issuance of First Mortgage 9-7/8% Bonds, Series 75
October 1, 1991	Company to Continental Bank, National Association and M.J. Kruger, as Trustee and Co-Trustee	Issuance of First Mortgage 8-1/4% Bonds, Series 76 and First Mortgage 8-7/8% Bonds, Series 77
October 15, 1991	Company to Continental Bank, National Association and M.J. Kruger, as Trustee and Co-Trustee	Issuance of First Mortgage 8-3/8% Bonds, Series 78 and First Mortgage 9-1/8% Bonds, Series 79
May 15, 1992	Company to Continental Bank, National Association and M.J. Kruger, as Trustee and Co-Trustee	Issuance of First Mortgage 6-1/8% Bonds, Series 82 and First Mortgage 8% Bonds, Series 83
April 15, 1993	Company to Continental Bank, National Association and M.J. Kruger, as Trustee and Co-Trustee	Issuance of First Mortgage 7-5/8% Bonds, Series 92
June 15, 1993	Company to Continental Bank, National Association and M.J. Kruger, as Trustee and Co-Trustee	Issuance of First Mortgage 7% Bonds, Series 93 and First Mortgage 7-1/2% Bonds, Series 94
July 15, 1993	Company to Continental Bank, National Association and M.J. Kruger, as Trustee and Co-Trustee	Issuance of First Mortgage 6-5/8% Bonds, Series 96 and First Mortgage 7-3/4% Bonds, Series 97
January 15, 1994	Company to Continental Bank, National Association and M.J. Kruger, as Trustee and Co-Trustee	Issuance of First Mortgage Bonds, Pollution Control Series 1994A, 1994B and 1994C
December 1, 1994	Company to Bank of America Illinois and Robert J. Donahue, as Trustee and Co-Trustee	Issuance of First Mortgage Bonds, Pollution Control Series 1994D

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Supplemental
Indenture Date	Parties	Providing For
June 1, 1996	Company to Harris Trust and Savings Bank and D.G. Donovan, as Trustee and Co-Trustee	Issuance of First Mortgage Bonds, Pollution Control Series 1996A and 1996B
March 1, 2002	Company to BNY Midwest Trust Company and D.G. Donovan, as Trustee and Co-Trustee	Issuance of unregistered First Mortgage 6.15% Bonds, Series 98
May 20, 2002	Company to BNY Midwest Trust Company and D.G. Donovan, as Trustee and Co-Trustee	Issuance of First Mortgage Bonds, Pollution Control Series 2002
June 1, 2002	Company to BNY Midwest Trust Company and D.G. Donovan, as Trustee and Co-Trustee	Issuance of additional unregistered First Mortgage 6.15% Bonds, Series 98
October 7, 2002	Company to BNY Midwest Trust Company and D.G. Donovan, as Trustee and Co-Trustee	Issuance of registered First Mortgage 6.15% Bonds, Series 98 in exchange for unregistered First Mortgage 6.15% Bonds, Series 98
January 13, 2003	Company to BNY Midwest Trust Company and D.G. Donovan, as Trustee and Co-Trustee	Issuance of First Mortgage 3.700% Bonds, Series 99 and First Mortgage 5.875% Bonds, Series 100
March 14, 2003	Company to BNY Midwest Trust Company and D.G. Donovan, as Trustee and Co-Trustee	Issuance of First Mortgage 4.70% Bonds, Series 101
April 23, 2003	Company to BNY Midwest Trust Company and D.G. Donovan, as Trustee and Co-Trustee	Issuance of First Mortgage Bonds, Pollution Control Series 2003
August 13, 2003	Company to BNY Midwest Trust Company and D.G. Donovan, as Trustee and Co-Trustee	Issuance of First Mortgage 4.74% Bonds, Series 102
September 10, 2003	Company to BNY Midwest Trust Company and D.G. Donovan, as Trustee and Co-Trustee	Issuance of First Mortgage Bonds, Pollution Control Series 2003B
November 10, 2003	Company to BNY Midwest Trust Company and D.G. Donovan, as Trustee and Co-Trustee	Issuance of First Mortgage Bonds, Pollution Control Series 2003C

          WHEREAS, the respective designations, maturity dates and principal amounts of the bonds of each series presently outstanding under, and secured by, the Mortgage and the several supplemental indentures above referred to, are as follows:

Designation	Maturity Date	Principal Amount
First Mortgage 9-7/8% Bonds, Series 75	June 15, 2020	$	54,171,000
First Mortgage 8-1/4% Bonds, Series 76	October 1, 2006		100,000,000
First Mortgage 8-3/8% Bonds, Series 78	October 15, 2006		125,000,000
First Mortgage 8% Bonds, Series 83	May 15, 2008		140,000,000
First Mortgage 7-5/8% Bonds, Series 92	April 15, 2013		218,500,000
First Mortgage 7% Bonds, Series 93	July 1, 2005		225,000,000
First Mortgage 7-1/2% Bonds, Series 94	July 1, 2013		147,000,000

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Designation	Maturity Date	Principal Amount
First Mortgage 5.3% Bonds, Pollution Control Series 1994A	January 15, 2004		26,000,000
First Mortgage 5.7% Bonds, Pollution Control Series 1994B	January 15, 2009		20,000,000
First Mortgage 5.85% Bonds, Pollution Control Series 1994C	January 15, 2014		20,000,000
First Mortgage 6.75% Bonds, Pollution Control Series 1994D	March 1, 2015		91,000,000
First Mortgage 4.4% Bonds, Pollution Control Series 1996A	December 1, 2006		110,000,000
First Mortgage 4.4% Bonds, Pollution Control Series 1996B	December 1, 2006		89,400,000
First Mortgage 6.15% Bonds, Series 98	March 15, 2012		600,000,000
First Mortgage Bonds, Pollution Control Series 2002	April 15, 2013		100,000,000
First Mortgage 3.700% Bonds, Series 99	February 1, 2008		350,000,000
First Mortgage 5.875% Bonds, Series 100	February 1, 2033		350,000,000
First Mortgage 4.70% Bonds, Series 101	April 15, 2015		395,000,000
First Mortgage Bonds, Pollution Control Series 2003	May 15, 2017		40,000,000
First Mortgage 4.74% Bonds, Series 102	August 15, 2010		250,000,000
First Mortgage Bonds, Pollution Control Series 2003B	November 1, 2019		42,200,000
First Mortgage Bonds, Pollution Control Series 2003C	March 1, 2020		50,000,000
	Total	$	3,543,271,000

          WHEREAS, the Mortgage provides for the issuance from time to time thereunder, in series, of bonds of the Company for the purposes and subject to the limitations therein specified; and

          WHEREAS, the Company desires, by this Supplemental Indenture, to create an additional series of bonds to be issuable under the Mortgage, such bonds to be designated “First Mortgage Bonds, Pollution Control Series 2003D” (hereinafter called the “bonds of Series 2003D”) and the terms and provisions to be contained in the bonds of Series 2003D or to be otherwise applicable thereto to be as set forth in this Supplemental Indenture; and

          WHEREAS, the bonds of Series 2003D and the Trustee’s certificate to be endorsed thereon shall be substantially in the forms included in Exhibit A hereto; and

          WHEREAS, the Company is legally empowered and has been duly authorized by the necessary corporate action and by order of the Illinois Commerce Commission to make,

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execute and deliver this Supplemental Indenture, and to create, as an additional series of bonds of the Company, the bonds of Series 2003D, and all acts and things whatsoever necessary to make this Supplemental Indenture, when executed and delivered by the Company and the Trustees, a valid, binding and legal instrument, and to make the bonds of Series 2003D, when authenticated by the Trustee and issued as provided in the Mortgage and in this Supplemental Indenture, the valid, binding and legal obligations of the Company, entitled in all respects to the security of the Mortgage, as amended and supplemented, have been done and performed;

          NOW, THEREFORE, in consideration of the premises and of the sum of one dollar duly paid by the Trustees to the Company, and for other good and valuable consideration, the receipt of which is hereby acknowledged, the parties hereto do hereby agree as follows:

ARTICLE I

DEFINITIONS AND RULES OF CONSTRUCTION

          SECTION 1.01. Terms of the Mortgage. The terms used in this Supplemental Indenture which are defined in the Mortgage, unless otherwise specified herein, are used herein with the same meanings as in the Mortgage.

          SECTION 1.02. Definitions of New Terms. The following terms shall have the following meanings in this Supplemental Indenture:

     “IDFA” shall mean the Illinois Development Finance Authority, a political subdivision and body politic and corporate duly organized and validly existing under and by virtue of the laws of the State of Illinois.

     “IDFA Bonds” shall mean those certain Pollution Control Revenue Refunding Bonds (Commonwealth Edison Company Project) Series 2003D issued in the original aggregate principal amount of $19,975,000 under and pursuant to the terms of the IDFA Indenture.

     “IDFA Indenture” shall mean that certain Indenture of Trust dated as of December 1, 2003, between IDFA, as issuer, and J.P. Morgan Trust Company, National Association, as trustee.

          SECTION 1.03. Rules of Construction. All references to any agreement refer to such agreement as modified, varied, or amended from time to time by the parties thereto (including any permitted successors or assigns) in accordance with its terms.

ARTICLE II

          SECTION 2.01. Designation and Issuance of Bonds. (a) The bonds of Series 2003D shall, as hereinbefore recited, be designated as the Company’s “First Mortgage Bonds, Pollution Control Series 2003D.”

          (b) Subject to the provisions of the Mortgage, the bonds of Series 2003D shall be issuable without limitation as to the aggregate principal amount thereof.

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          SECTION 2.02. Form, Date, Maturity Date, Interest Rate and Interest Payment Dates of Bonds. (a) The definitive bonds of Series 2003D shall be in engraved, lithographed, printed or type-written form and shall be registered bonds without coupons, and such bonds and the Trustee’s certificate to be endorsed thereon shall be substantially in the forms included in Exhibit A hereto. The bonds of Series 2003D shall be dated as provided in Section 3.01 of the Mortgage, as amended by Supplemental Indenture dated April 1, 1967. All bonds of Series 2003D shall mature on January 15, 2014.

          (b) The bonds of Series 2003D shall bear interest on each day that they are outstanding at a rate per annum which is equal to the weighted-average interest rate borne on the IDFA Bonds outstanding on such date; provided, however, such interest rate on the bonds of Series 2003D shall not exceed 12% per annum. The bonds of Series 2003D shall bear interest until the principal thereof shall be paid in full. Interest on the bonds of Series 2003D shall be payable to the record holder thereof on the dates that interest is payable on the IDFA Bonds.

          (c) The interest on the bonds of Series 2003D so payable on any interest payment date shall, subject to the exceptions provided in Section 3.01 of the Mortgage, as amended by said Supplemental Indenture dated April 1, 1967, be paid to the person in whose name such bond is registered on such interest payment date.

          SECTION 2.03. Bonds Issued as Collateral Security. The bonds of Series 2003D shall be issued, delivered, and pledged to, and registered in the name of, the trustee under the IDFA Indenture in order to secure and provide for, and as collateral security for, the due and punctual payment of the principal, premium, if any, and interest due from time to time on the IDFA Bonds.

          SECTION 2.04. Credit for Payments on IDFA Bonds. (a) The Company shall receive a credit against its obligation to make any payment of interest on the bonds of Series 2003D, whether on an interest payment date, at maturity, upon redemption, upon acceleration or otherwise, in an amount equal to the amount, if any, paid by or for the account of the Company in respect of any corresponding payment of interest on the IDFA Bonds. So long as all the bonds of Series 2003D are pledged as described in Section 2.03, the obligation of the Company to make any payment with respect to the principal of the bonds of Series 2003D shall be credited in full if, at the time that any such payment of principal shall be due, there shall have been paid by or for the account of the Company the then due principal of all IDFA Bonds which are outstanding.

          (b) The Trustee may conclusively presume that the obligation of the Company to pay the principal of, and premium, if any, and interest on, the bonds of Series 2003D as the same shall become due and payable has been credited in accordance with this Section 2.04 unless and until it shall have received a written notice (including a telex, telegram, telecopy or other form of written telecommunication) from the trustee under the IDFA Indenture stating that payment of the principal of, or premium, if any, or interest on, the IDFA Bonds has become due and payable and has not been fully paid and specifying the amount of funds required to make such payment.

          SECTION 2.05. Execution of Bonds. The bonds of Series 2003D shall be executed on behalf of the Company by its President or one of its Vice Presidents, manually or by

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facsimile signature, and shall have its corporate seal affixed thereto or a facsimile of such seal imprinted thereon, attested by its Secretary or one of its Assistant Secretaries, manually or by facsimile signature, all as may be provided by resolution of the Board of Directors of the Company. In case any officer or officers whose signature or signatures, manual or facsimile, shall appear upon any bond of Series 2003D shall cease to be such officer or officers before such bond shall have been actually authenticated and delivered, such bond nevertheless may be issued, authenticated and delivered with the same force and effect as though the person or persons whose signature or signatures, manual or facsimile, appear thereon had not ceased to be such officer or officers of the Company.

          SECTION 2.06. Medium and Places of Payment of Principal of, and Premium, If Any, and Interest on, Bonds; Transferability and Exchangeability. The principal of, and premium, if any, and the interest on the bonds of Series 2003D shall be payable in any coin or currency of the United States of America which at the time of payment is legal tender for the payment of public and private debts, and such principal, premium, if any, and interest shall be payable at the office or agency of the Company in the City of Chicago, State of Illinois, and such bonds shall be transferable and exchangeable, in the manner provided in Sections 3.09 and 3.10 of the Mortgage, at said office or agency. No charge shall be made by the Company to the registered owner of any bond of Series 2003D for the registration of transfer of such bond or for the exchange thereof for bonds of the same series of other authorized denominations, except, in the case of any transfer, a charge sufficient to reimburse the Company for any stamp or other tax or governmental charge required to be paid by the Company or the Trustee.

          SECTION 2.07. Denominations and Numbering of Bonds. The bonds of Series 2003D shall be issued in the denomination of $1,000 and in such multiples of $1,000 as shall from time to time hereafter be determined and authorized by the Board of Directors of the Company or by any officer or officers of the Company authorized to make such determination, the authorization of the denomination of any bond of Series 2003D to be conclusively evidenced by the execution thereof on behalf of the Company. Bonds of Series 2003D shall each be numbered R-1 and consecutively upwards.

          SECTION 2.08. Temporary Bonds. Until definitive bonds of Series 2003D are ready for delivery, there may be authenticated and issued in lieu of any thereof and subject to all of the provisions, limitations, and conditions set forth in Section 3.11 of the Mortgage, temporary registered bonds of Series 2003D without coupons.

          SECTION 2.09. Optional Redemption of Bonds. Upon the notice and in the manner provided in the paragraph under the heading “Optional Redemption” of the IDFA Bonds, the bonds of Series 2003D may be redeemed in whole or in part, at the option of the Company, on the date or dates determined thereunder, at the redemption prices (expressed as percentages of the principal amount of each bond of Series 2003D or portion thereof to be redeemed) set forth therein, plus accrued interest to the redemption date.

          SECTION 2.10. Mandatory Redemption. Upon the notice and in the manner provided in the paragraphs under the heading “Mandatory Redemption” of the IDFA Bonds, the bonds of Series 2003D shall be redeemed by the Company in whole, or as provided under

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such paragraphs in part, at 100% of the principal amount thereof plus accrued interest to the redemption date.

          SECTION 2.11. Default Mandatory Redemption. The bonds of Series 2003D shall be redeemed promptly, without notice, by the Company in whole at 100% of the principal amount thereof plus accrued interest to the date of redemption following receipt by the Trustee of written notice from the trustee under the IDFA Indenture stating that the principal of the IDFA Bonds has been declared to be immediately due and payable as a result of an event of default under the IDFA Indenture.

ARTICLE III

CONFIRMATION OF LIEN

          The Company, for the equal and proportionate benefit and security of the holders of all bonds at any time issued under the Mortgage, hereby confirms the lien of the Mortgage upon, and hereby grants, bargains, sells, transfers, assigns, pledges, mortgages, warrants and conveys unto the Trustees, all property of the Company and all property hereafter acquired by the Company, other than (in each case) property which, by virtue of any of the provisions of the Mortgage, is excluded from such lien, and hereby confirms the title of the Trustees (as set forth in the Mortgage) in and to all such property. Without in any way limiting or restricting the generality of the foregoing, there is specifically included within the confirmation of lien and title hereinabove expressed the property of the Company legally described on Exhibit B attached hereto and made a part hereof.

ARTICLE IV

MISCELLANEOUS

          The terms and conditions of this Supplemental Indenture shall be deemed to be a part of the terms and conditions of the Mortgage for any and all purposes. The Mortgage, as supplemented by the indentures supplemental thereto dated subsequent to August 1, 1944 and referred to in the first paragraph of this Supplemental Indenture, and as further supplemented by this Supplemental Indenture, is in all respects hereby ratified and confirmed.

          This Supplemental Indenture shall bind and, subject to the provisions of Article XIV of the Mortgage, inure to the benefit of the respective successors and assigns of the parties hereto.

          Although this Supplemental Indenture is dated as of December 5, 2003, it shall be effective only from and after the actual time of its execution and delivery by the Company and the Trustees on the date indicated by their respective acknowledgments hereto annexed.

          This Supplemental Indenture may be simultaneously executed in any number of counterparts, and all such counterparts executed and delivered, each as an original, shall constitute but one and the same instrument.

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          IN WITNESS WHEREOF, Commonwealth Edison Company has caused this Supplemental Indenture to be executed in its name by its Vice President and Treasurer, and attested by one of its Assistant Secretaries, and BNY Midwest Trust Company, as Trustee under the Mortgage, has caused this Supplemental Indenture to be executed in its name by one of its Vice Presidents, and attested by one of its Assistant Vice Presidents, and D.G. Donovan, as Co-Trustee under the Mortgage, has hereunto affixed his signature, all as of the day and year first above written.

	COMMONWEALTH EDISON COMPANY
	By:
		J. Barry Mitchell
		Vice President and Treasurer
ATTEST:
Scott N. Peters
Assistant Secretary
	BNY MIDWEST TRUST COMPANY
	By:
		J. Bartolini
		Vice President
ATTEST:
C. Potter
Assistant Vice President
	D.G. Donovan

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STATE OF ILLINOIS	)
	)
COUNTY OF COOK	)

     I, DONALD M. SALAZAR, a Notary Public in and for said County, in the State aforesaid, DO HEREBY CERTIFY that J. Barry Mitchell, Vice President and Treasurer of Commonwealth Edison Company, an Illinois corporation, one of the parties described in and which executed the foregoing instrument, and Scott N. Peters, Assistant Secretary of said corporation, who are both personally known to me to be the same persons whose names are subscribed to the foregoing instrument as such Vice President and Treasurer and Assistant Secretary, respectively, and who are both personally known to me to be Vice President and Treasurer and an Assistant Secretary, respectively, of said corporation, appeared before me this day in person and severally acknowledged that they signed, executed and delivered said instrument as their free and voluntary act as such Vice President and Treasurer and Assistant Secretary, respectively, of said corporation, and as the free and voluntary act of said corporation, for the uses and purposes therein set forth.

     GIVEN under my hand and notarial seal this 5^th day of December, A.D. 2003.

Donald M. Salazar
Notary Public

(NOTARIAL SEAL)

My Commission expires January 25, 2005.

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STATE OF ILLINOIS	)
	)
COUNTY OF COOK	)

          I, A. HERNANDEZ, a Notary Public in and for said County, in the State aforesaid, DO HEREBY CERTIFY that J. BARTOLINI, Vice President of BNY Midwest Trust Company, an Illinois trust company, one of the parties described in and which executed the foregoing instrument, and C. POTTER, Assistant Vice President of said trust company, who are both personally known to me to be the same persons whose names are subscribed to the foregoing instrument as such Vice President and Assistant Vice President, respectively, and who are both personally known to me to be a Vice President and an Assistant Vice President, respectively, of said trust company, appeared before me this day in person and severally acknowledged that they signed, executed and delivered said instrument as their free and voluntary act as such Vice President and Assistant Vice President, respectively, of said trust company, and as the free and voluntary act of said trust company, for the uses and purposes therein set forth.

          GIVEN under my hand and notarial seal this 5^th day of December, A.D. 2003.

A. Hernandez
Notary Public

{SEAL}

My Commission expires July 8, 2006.

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STATE OF ILLINOIS	)
	)
COUNTY OF COOK	)

          I, A. HERNANDEZ, a Notary Public in and for said County, in the State aforesaid, DO HEREBY CERTIFY that D.G. DONOVAN, one of the parties described in and which executed the foregoing instrument, who is personally known to me to be the same person whose name is subscribed to the foregoing instrument, appeared before me this day in person and acknowledged that he signed, executed and delivered said instrument as his free and voluntary act for the uses and purposes therein set forth.

          GIVEN under my hand and notarial seal this 5^th day of December, A.D. 2003.

A. Hernandez
Notary Public

{SEAL}

My Commission expires July 8, 2006.

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EXHIBIT A
to
Supplemental Indenture

COMMONWEALTH EDISON COMPANY

First Mortgage Bond, Pollution Control Series 2003D

Due January 15, 2014

          COMMONWEALTH EDISON COMPANY, an Illinois corporation (hereinafter called the “Company”), for value received, hereby promises to pay to                                         , as trustee under that certain Indenture of Trust dated as of December 1, 2003 between Illinois Development Finance Authority (“IDFA”) and said trustee, or registered assigns, on the fifteenth day of January, 2014, the sum of                      Dollars, and to pay interest on said sum from the date hereof until said sum shall be paid, at a rate per annum on each day which is equal to the weighted-average interest rate borne on the IDFA Bonds (as hereinafter defined) outstanding on such date, until the principal thereof shall be paid in full, subject to Section 2.04 of the Supplemental Indenture dated as of December 5, 2003 (the “Supplemental Indenture”), executed and delivered by the Company to the Trustees (as hereinafter defined), which provides for certain credits towards payment of principal of and interest on the bonds of this Series. Interest shall accrue on the bonds of this Series from the date of issuance hereof, and the payment thereof shall be credited as provided in Section 2.04(a) of the Supplemental Indenture unless and until the Trustee receives the notice contemplated by Section 2.04(b) of the Supplemental Indenture, whereupon the interest on the bonds of this Series shall become and remain due and payable until such time as the Trustee receives a further written notice (including a telex, telegram, telecopy or other form of written telecommunication) from the trustee under the IDFA Indenture (as hereinafter defined) stating that such payments need not continue. When interest is due and payable as described above, interest on the bonds of this Series shall be payable at the same time as interest on the IDFA Bonds and upon maturity, redemption, or acceleration of the bonds of this Series, subject to Section 2.04 of the Supplemental Indenture. The interest on each bond of this Series so payable on any interest payment date shall, subject to the exceptions provided in Section 3.01 of the Mortgage (as hereinafter defined), as amended by a supplemental indenture dated April 1, 1967, be paid to the person in whose name such bond is registered on the date of such payment. The principal of, and premium, if any, and the interest on, this bond shall be payable at the office or agency of the Company in the City of Chicago, State of Illinois in any coin or currency of the United States of America which at the time of payment is legal tender for the payment of public and private debts.

          This bond is one of the bonds of the Company, issued and to be issued in series from time to time under and in accordance with and, irrespective of the time of issue, equally and ratably secured by the Mortgage dated July 1, 1923, and indentures supplemental thereto, under which BNY Midwest Trust Company and D.G. Donovan (collectively, the “Trustees”) are now the Trustees, and is one of the First Mortgage Bonds, Pollution Control Series 2003D of the

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Company, the issuance of which is provided for by the Supplemental Indenture, executed and delivered by the Company to such Trustees, to which Mortgage and all indentures supplemental thereto reference is hereby made for a description of the property mortgaged and pledged, the nature and extent of the security, the rights of the holders and registered owners of said bonds, of the Company and of the Trustees in respect of the security, and the terms and conditions governing the issuance and security of said bonds. The term “Mortgage,” as hereinafter used, shall mean said Mortgage dated July 1, 1923, and all indentures supplemental thereto.

          With the consent of the Company and to the extent permitted by and as provided in the Mortgage, modifications or alterations of the Mortgage or of any indenture supplemental thereto and of the rights and obligations of the Company and of the holders and registered owners of the bonds may be made, and compliance with any provision of the Mortgage or any such supplemental indenture may be waived, by the affirmative vote of the holders and registered owners of not less than eighty per centum (80%) in principal amount of the bonds then outstanding under the Mortgage, and by the affirmative vote of the holders and registered owners of not less than eighty per centum (80%) in principal amount of the bonds of any series then outstanding under the Mortgage and affected by such modification or alteration, in case one or more but less than all of the series of bonds then outstanding under the Mortgage are so affected, but in any case excluding bonds disqualified from voting by reason of the Company’s interest therein as provided in the Mortgage; subject, however, to the condition, among other conditions stated in the Mortgage, that no such modification or alteration shall be made which will permit the extension of the time or times of payment of the principal of or the interest or the premium, if any, on this bond, or the reduction in the principal amount hereof or in the rate of interest or the amount of any premium hereon, or any other modification in the terms of payment of such principal, interest or premium, which terms of payment are unconditional, or, otherwise than as permitted by the Mortgage, the creation of any lien ranking prior to or on a parity with the lien of the Mortgage with respect to any of the mortgaged property, all as more fully provided in the Mortgage.

          The bonds of this Series are subject to redemption, as provided in the Supplemental Indenture.

          In case of certain completed defaults specified in the Mortgage, the principal of this bond may be declared or may become due and payable in the manner and with the effect provided in the Mortgage.

          No recourse shall be had for the payment of the principal of or the interest on this bond, or for any claim based hereon, or otherwise in respect hereof or of the Mortgage, to or against any incorporator, stockholder, officer or director, past, present or future, of the Company or of any successor corporation, either directly or through the Company or such successor corporation, under any constitution or statute or rule of law, or by the enforcement of any assessment or penalty, or otherwise, all such liability of incorporators, stockholders, directors and officers being waived and released by the registered owner hereof by the acceptance of this bond and being likewise waived and released by the terms of the Mortgage, all as more fully provided therein.

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          This bond is transferable by the registered owner hereof, in person or by duly authorized attorney, at the office or agency of the Company in the City of Chicago, State of Illinois, upon surrender and cancellation of this bond; and thereupon a new registered bond or bonds without coupons of the same aggregate principal amount and series will, upon the payment of charges as provided in the Mortgage, be issued to the transferee in exchange herefor.

          Bonds of this Series are issuable only in registered form without coupons and in the denominations of $1,000 each and any authorized multiple thereof. As provided in the Mortgage, such bonds are exchangeable for registered bonds of the same series as between authorized denominations. Any such exchange may be made by the registered owner of any such bond or bonds upon presentation thereof for that purpose at the office or agency of the Company in the City of Chicago, State of Illinois.

          This bond shall not be entitled to any security or benefit under the Mortgage or be valid or become obligatory for any purpose unless and until it shall have been authenticated by the execution by the corporate Trustee, or its successor in trust under the Mortgage, of the certificate endorsed hereon.

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     IN WITNESS WHEREOF, Commonwealth Edison Company has caused this bond to be executed in its name by its President or one of its Vice-Presidents, and has caused its corporate seal to be hereto affixed, attested by its Secretary or one of its Assistant Secretaries, as of the                      day of                                         , 20                     .

	COMMONWEALTH EDISON COMPANY
[SEAL]
	By:
		President
ATTEST:
Secretary

(General Form of Trustee’s Certificate)

          This bond is one of the bonds of the series designated herein, referred to and described in the within mentioned Supplemental Indenture dated as of December 5, 2003.

BNY MIDWEST TRUST COMPANY
By:
	Authorized Officer

Illinois Commerce Commission Identification No. 6234

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ABBREVIATIONS

          The following abbreviations, when used in the inscription on the face of this instrument, shall be construed as though they were written out in full according to applicable laws or regulations:

TEN COM -	as tenants in common
TEN ENT -	as tenants by the entireties
JT TEN -	as joint tenants with right of survivorship and not as tenants in common

UNIF GIFT MIN ACT -	Custodian
	(Cust)	(Minors)
	under	Uniform	Gifts	to	Minors	Act
	(State)

Additional abbreviations may also be used though not in the above list.

          FOR VALUE RECEIVED the undersigned hereby sell(s), assign(s), and transfer(s) unto

PLEASE INSERT SOCIAL SECURITY OR
OTHER IDENTIFYING NUMBER OF ASSIGNEE

(Please print or typewrite name and address including postal zip code of assignee)

the within Bond and all rights thereunder, hereby irrevocably constituting and appointing                                          attorney to transfer said Bond on the books of the Company, with full power of substitution in the premises.

Dated:
	NOTICE: The signature to this assignment must correspond with the name as written upon the face of the within instrument in every particular, without alteration or enlargement or any change whatever.

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EX-5.1

Exhibit 5-1

	SIDLEY AUSTIN llp	BEIJING	GENEVA	SAN FRANCISCO
	ONE SOUTH DEARBORN	BRUSSELS	HONG KONG	SHANGHAI
	CHICAGO, IL 60603	CHICAGO	LONDON	SINGAPORE
	(312) 853 7000	DALLAS	LOS ANGELES	TOKYO
	(312) 853 7036 FAX	FRANKFURT	NEW YORK	WASHINGTON, DC
		FOUNDED 1866

May 10, 2006

Commonwealth Edison Company
440 South LaSalle Street
Suite 3300
Chicago, Illinois 60605-1028

     Re:           Registration Statement on Form S-3

Ladies and Gentlemen:

     We refer to the Registration Statement on Form S-3 (the “Registration Statement”) being filed by Commonwealth Edison Company, an Illinois corporation (the “Company”), with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”) under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “Securities Act”), relating to the shelf registration of an unlimited amount of (i) first mortgage bonds of the Company (the “Bonds”) and (ii) unsecured notes of the Company (the “Notes”). Unless otherwise specified in the applicable prospectus supplement, the Bonds will be issued under the Company’s Mortgage (the “Mortgage”), dated July 1, 1923, as amended and supplemented, between the Company and Illinois Merchants Trust Company, as trustee (BNY Midwest Trust Company, as current successor trustee), and D.G. Donovan, as co-trustee (collectively, the “Mortgage Trustees”), which Mortgage is governed by Illinois law, and the Notes will be issued under the Indenture (the “Senior Indenture”), dated as of September 1, 1987, as amended and supplemented, between the Company and Citibank, N.A., as trustee (the “Senior Trustee”), which Senior Indenture is governed by New York law.

     We have examined the Registration Statement and the exhibits filed therewith. We have also examined such records, documents and questions of law, and satisfied ourselves as to such matters of fact, as we have considered relevant and necessary as a basis for the opinions set forth below.

          In rendering the opinions set forth below, we have assumed the genuineness of all signatures, the legal capacity of natural persons, the authenticity of all documents submitted to us as originals, the conformity to original documents of all documents submitted to us as duplicates or certified or conformed copies, and the authenticity of the originals of such latter documents. With respect to any instrument or agreement executed or to be executed by any party other than the Company, we have assumed, to the extent relevant to the opinions set forth herein, that (i) such other party (if not a natural person) has been duly formed or organized and is validly existing and in good standing under the laws of its jurisdiction of formation or organization and (ii) such other party has full right, power and authority to execute, deliver and perform its obligations under each instrument or agreement to which it is a party and each such instrument or agreement has been duly authorized (if applicable), executed and delivered by, and is a valid, binding and enforceable agreement or obligation, as the case may be, of, such other party.

Commonwealth Edison Company
May 10, 2006
Page 2

     Based on the foregoing and subject to the qualifications and limitations set forth below, we are of the opinion that:

     1. The Company is duly incorporated and validly existing under the laws of the State of Illinois.

     2. Each series of Bonds will be legally issued and binding obligations of the Company when: (i) a supplemental indenture related to such series of Bonds meeting the requirements of the Mortgage has been duly executed and delivered by the Company and the Mortgage Trustees; (ii) the Company’s Board of Directors or the Executive Committee thereof (the “Company Board”) shall have duly adopted final resolutions authorizing the issuance and sale of such series of Bonds as contemplated by the Registration Statement and the Mortgage; and (iii) such series of Bonds shall have been duly executed by the Company and authenticated by the Mortgage Trustees as provided in the Mortgage and such resolutions and shall have been duly delivered to the purchasers thereof against payment of the agreed consideration therefor.

     3. Each series of Notes will be legally issued and binding obligations of the Company when: (i) a supplemental indenture related to such series of Notes meeting the requirements of the Senior Indenture has been duly executed and delivered by the Company and the Senior Trustee; (ii) the Company Board shall have duly adopted final resolutions authorizing the issuance and sale of such series of Notes as contemplated by the Registration Statement and the Senior Indenture; and (iii) such series of Notes shall have been duly executed by the Company and authenticated by the Senior Trustee as provided in the Senior Indenture and such resolutions and shall have been duly delivered to the purchasers thereof against payment of the agreed consideration therefor.

     Our opinions in paragraphs 2 and 3 with respect to the enforceability of the Bonds and the Notes are subject to the effect of applicable bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization, moratorium, fraudulent transfer or other similar laws affecting the enforcement of creditors’ rights generally and to the effect of general principles of equity, regardless of whether enforceability is considered in a proceeding in equity or at law. Our opinion in paragraph 2 with respect to the enforceability of the Bonds is further subject to (i) the effect of provisions of the Bankruptcy Reform Act of 1978, which may affect the validity of the lien of the Mortgage with respect to property acquired or proceeds realized by the Company after the commencement of bankruptcy proceedings with respect to the Company and (ii) the qualification that certain of the remedial, waiver and other provisions of the Mortgage may be unenforceable in whole or in part under the laws of the State of Illinois, but such unenforceability will not render the Mortgage invalid as a whole or make the Mortgage legally inadequate for the practical realization of the principal benefits or security intended to be provided thereby.

     For the purposes of this opinion letter, we have assumed that, at the time of the issuance, sale and delivery of each series of Bonds and each series of Notes, as the case may be: (i) the authorization thereof by the Company will not have been modified or rescinded, and there will not have occurred any change in law affecting the validity, legally binding character or enforceability thereof; (ii) the Mortgage or the Senior Indenture, as applicable, will not have been modified or amended; and (iii) the Restated Articles of Incorporation of the Company, as currently in effect, will not have been modified or amended and will be in full force and effect.

Commonwealth Edison Company
May 10, 2006
Page 3

     This opinion letter is limited to the Federal laws of the United States of America and the laws of the States of Illinois and New York.

     We do not find it necessary for the purposes of this opinion letter to cover, and accordingly we express no opinion as to, the application of the securities or blue sky laws of the various states or the District of Columbia to the sale of the securities to be registered pursuant to the Registration Statement.

     We hereby consent to the filing of this opinion letter as an Exhibit to the Registration Statement and to all references to our firm included in or made a part of the Registration Statement. In giving such consent, we do not thereby admit that we are within the category of persons whose consent is required by Section 7 of the Securities Act or the related rules promulgated by the SEC.

Very truly yours,

/s/ Sidley Austin LLP

EX-12.1

Exhibit 12-1

Commonwealth Edison Company and Subsidiary Companies Consolidated

Computation of Ratios of Earnings to Fixed Charges
and Ratios of Earnings to Fixed Charges and
Preferred and Preference Stock Dividend Requirements

(Thousands of Dollars)

												Three Months
	Year Ended December 31,											Ended June 30,
Line	2001		2002		2003		2004		2005			2005		2006
Net income	$	606,872	$	790,343	$	701,756	$	676,763	$	(675,687	)	$	70,194	$	54,535
Net provisions for income taxes and investment tax credits deferred charged to — Operations and other income	$	503,398	$	506,079	$	465,026	$	457,225	$	362,530		$	45,931	$	36,392
	$	503,398	$	506,079	$	465,026	$	457,225	$	362,530		$	45,931	$	36,392
Fixed charges — Interest on debt, including amortization of debt discount, premium and expense	$	554,732	$	480,310	$	429,243	$	368,509	$	297,595		$	74,722	$	78,188
Estimated interest component of nuclear fuel and other lease payments, rental and other interest		5,725		8,413		5,971		6,093		6,225			1,248		1,879
Preferred securities dividend requirements of subsidiary trusts		29,710		29,710		26,455		—		—			—		—
	$	590,167	$	518,433	$	461,669	$	374,602	$	303,820		$	75,970	$	80,067

												Three Months
	Year Ended December 31,											Ended June 30,
Line	2001		2002		2003		2004		2005			2005		2006
Preferred and preference stock dividend requirements — Provisions for preferred and preference stock dividends	$	—	$	—	$	—	$	—	$	—		$	—	$	—
Taxes on income required to meet provisions for preferred and preference stock dividends		—		—		—		—		—			—		—
	$	—	$	—	$	—	$	—	$	—		$	—	$	—
Fixed charges and preferred and preference stock dividend requirements	$	590,167	$	518,433	$	461,669	$	374,602	$	303,820		$	75,970	$	80,067
Earned for fixed charges and preferred and preference stock dividend requirements	$	1,697,187	$	1,806,575	$	1,622,432	$	1,508,625	$	(11,553	)	$	191,848	$	168,737
Ratio of earnings to — Fixed charges (line 51 divided by line 25)		2.88		3.48		3.51		4.03	Neg.		(a)		2.53		2.11

(a) For purposes of the ratio calculation, the deficiency in our earnings to achieve a one-to-one ratio of earnings to fixed charges for 2005 was approximately $315 million. Our earnings for 2005 were negatively impacted by a $1.2 billion non-deductible, non-cash impairment charge we took related to the goodwill originally recorded on our books in connection with our former parent’s merger with PECO Energy Company. For purposes of calculating our ratio of earnings to fixed charges for the twelve-month ended December 31, 2005, fixed charges were approximately $304 million.

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EX-23.1

Exhibit 23-1

CONSENT OF INDEPENDENT REGISTERED PUBLIC ACCOUNTING FIRM

We hereby consent to the incorporation by reference in this Registration Statement on Form S-3 of our report dated February 15, 2006 relating to the financial statements and financial statement schedule, which appears in Commonwealth Edison Company’s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2005. We also consent to the reference to us under the heading “Experts” in such Registration Statement.

/s/ PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP

Chicago, IL
May 10, 2006

EX-25.1

Exhibit 25-1

FORM T-1

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

Washington, D.C. 20549

STATEMENT OF ELIGIBILITY
UNDER THE TRUST INDENTURE ACT OF 1939 OF A
CORPORATION DESIGNATED TO ACT AS TRUSTEE

CHECK IF AN APPLICATION TO DETERMINE
ELIGIBILITY OF A TRUSTEE PURSUANT TO
SECTION 305(b)(2)       o

BNY MIDWEST TRUST COMPANY

(formerly known as CTC Illinois Trust Company)

(Exact name of trustee as specified in its charter)

Illinois	36-3800435
(State of incorporation	(I.R.S. employer
if not a U.S. national bank)	identification no.)
2 North LaSalle Street
Suite 1020
Chicago, Illinois	60602
(Address of principal executive offices)	(Zip code)

Commonwealth Edison Company
(Exact name of obligor as specified in its charter)

Illinois	36-0938600
(State or other jurisdiction of	(I.R.S. employer
incorporation or organization)	identification no.)
440 South LaSalle Street
Suite 3300
Chicago, Illinois	60605-1028
(Address of principal executive offices)	(Zip code)

First Mortgage Bonds
(Title of the indenture securities)

1. General information. Furnish the following information as to the Trustee:

(a) Name and address of each examining or supervising authority to which it is subject.

Name	Address
Office of Banks & Trust Companies of the State of Illinois	500 E. Monroe Street
	Springfield, Illinois 62701-1532
Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago	230 S. LaSalle Street
	Chicago, Illinois 60603

(b) Whether it is authorized to exercise corporate trust powers.

Yes.

2.	Affiliations with Obligor.
	If the obligor is an affiliate of the trustee, describe each such affiliation.
	None.

16.	List of Exhibits.
	Exhibits identified in parentheses below, on file with the Commission, are incorporated herein by reference as an exhibit hereto, pursuant to Rule 7a-29 under the Trust Indenture Act of 1939 (the “Act”) and 17 C.F.R. 229.10(d).

1.	A copy of Articles of Incorporation of BNY Midwest Trust Company (formerly CTC Illinois Trust Company, formerly Continental Trust Company) as now in effect. (Exhibit 1 to Form T-1 filed with the Registration Statement No. 333-47688.)
2,3.	A copy of the Certificate of Authority of the Trustee as now in effect, which contains the authority to commence business and a grant of powers to exercise corporate trust powers. (Exhibit 2 to Form T-1 filed with the Registration Statement No. 333-47688.)
4.	A copy of the existing By-laws of the Trustee. (Exhibit 4 to Form T-1 filed with the Registration Statement No. 333-47688.)
6.	The consent of the Trustee required by Section 321(b) of the Act. (Exhibit 6 to Form T-1 filed with the Registration Statement No. 333-47688.)

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7. A copy of the latest report of condition of the Trustee published pursuant to law or to the requirements of its supervising or examining authority.

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SIGNATURE

          Pursuant to the requirements of the Act, the Trustee, BNY Midwest Trust Company, a corporation organized and existing under the laws of the State of Illinois, has duly caused this statement of eligibility to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized, all in The City of Chicago, and State of Illinois, on the 1st day of May, 2006.

BNY Midwest Trust Company
By:	/s/      M. CALLAHAN
	Name: M. CALLAHAN
	Title: VICE PRESIDENT

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DEPARTMENT OF FINANCIAL AND PROFESSIONAL REGULATION
Division of Banks and Real Estate

CONSOLIDATED REPORT OF CONDITION

OF

BNY Midwest Trust Company
2 North LaSalle Street
Suite 1020
Chicago, Illinois 60602

Including the institution’s domestic and foreign subsidiaries completed as of the close of business on December 31, 2005, submitted in response to the call of the Illinois Department of Financial and Professional Regulation.

		Thousands of Dollars
		(000)
ASSETS
Cash and Due from Depository Institution			62,643
U.S. Treasury Securities			-0-
Obligations of States and Political Subdivisions			-0-
Other Bonds, Notes and Debentures			-0-
Corporate Stock			-0-
Trust Company Premises, Furniture, Fixtures and Other Assets Representing Trust Company Premises			515
Accounts Receivable			2,871
Goodwill			86,816
Intangibles			-0-
Other Assets			864
(Itemize amounts greater than 15% of Line 10)
Income Taxes Receivable	766
TOTAL ASSETS			153,709

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DEPARTMENT OF FINANCIAL AND PROFESSIONAL REGULATION
Division of Banks and Real Estate

CONSOLIDATED REPORT OF CONDITION
OF

BNY Midwest Trust Company
2 North LaSalle Street
Suite 1020
Chicago, Illinois 60602

		Thousands of Dollars
LIABILITIES
Accounts Payable			28
Taxes Payable			0
Other Liabilities for Borrowed Money			25,425
Other Liabilities
(Itemize amounts greater than 15% of Line 14)
Reserve for Taxes	18,048
			18,755
TOTAL LIABILITIES			44,208
EQUITY CAPITAL
Preferred Stock			- 0 -
Common Stock			2,000
Surplus			67,130
Reserve for Operating Expenses			- 0 -
Retained Earnings (Loss)			40,371
TOTAL EQUITY CAPITAL			109,501
TOTAL LIABILITIES AND EQUITY CAPITAL			153,709

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I,	Robert L. DePaola, Vice President
	(Name and Title of Officer Authorized to Sign Report)

of BNY Midwest Trust Company certify that the information contained in this statement is accurate to the best of my knowledge and belief. I understand that submission of false information with the intention to deceive the Commissioner or his Administrative officers is a felony.

/s/ Robert L. DePaola
(Signature of Officer Authorized to Sign Report)

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EX-25.2

Exhibit 25-2

FORM T-2

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

Washington, D.C. 20549

STATEMENT OF ELIGIBILITY
UNDER THE TRUST INDENTURE ACT OF 1939 OF AN
INDIVIDUAL DESIGNATED TO ACT AS TRUSTEE

CHECK IF AN APPLICATION TO DETERMINE
ELIGIBILITY OF A TRUSTEE PURSUANT TO
SECTION 305(b)(2)      o

D.G. Donovan
(Name of trustee)

N/A	2 N. LaSalle Street
(I.R.S. employer	Suite 1020
identification no.)	Chicago, IL 60602
	(Business address: street,
	city state and zip code)

Commonwealth Edison Company
(Exact name of obligor as specified in its charter)

Illinois	36-0938600
(State or other jurisdiction of	(I.R.S. employer
incorporation or organization)	identification no.)
440 South LaSalle Street
Suite 3300
Chicago, Illinois	60605-1028
(Address of principal executive offices)	(Zip code)

First Mortgage Bonds
(Title of the indenture securities)

1.	Affiliations with Obligor.
	If the obligor is an affiliate of the trustee, describe each such affiliation.
	None. (see Note on page 3.)
2.	Trusteeships under other indentures.
	If the trustee is trustee under another indenture under which any other securities, or certificates of interest or participation in any other securities, of the obligor are outstanding, file a copy of each such indenture as an exhibit and furnish the following information:

(a) Title of the securities outstanding under each such other indenture.

Not applicable.

(b) A brief statement of the facts relied upon by the trustee as a basis for the claim that no conflicting interest within the meaning of Section 310(b)(1) of the Act arises as a result of the trusteeship under such other indenture, including a statement as to how the indenture securities will rank as compared with the securities issued under such other indenture.

Not applicable.

11. List of Exhibits.

None.

NOTE

          Inasmuch as this Form T-2 is filed prior to the ascertainment by the Trustee of all facts on which to base a responsive answer to Item 1, the answer to said Item is based on incomplete information.

          Item 1 may, however, be considered as correct unless amended by an amendment to this Form T-2.

SIGNATURE

          Pursuant to the requirements of the Trust Indenture Act of 1939, I, D.G. Donovan have signed this statement of eligibility in The City of Chicago and State of Illinois, on the 1st day of May, 2006.

/s/	D.G. DONOVAN
Name:	D.G. DONOVAN

EX-25.3

Exhibit 25-3
 

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

Washington, D.C. 20549

FORM T-1

STATEMENT OF ELIGIBILITY
UNDER THE TRUST INDENTURE ACT OF 1939 OF A
CORPORATION DESIGNATED TO ACT AS TRUSTEE

Check if an application to determine eligibility of a Trustee
pursuant to Section 305 (b)(2) o

CITIBANK, N.A.

(Exact name of trustee as specified in its charter)

	13-5266470
	(I.R.S. employer
	identification no.)
399 Park Avenue, New York, New York	10043
(Address of principal executive office)	(Zip Code)

Commonwealth Edison Company
(Exact name of obligor as specified in its charter)

Illinois	36-0938600
(State or other jurisdiction of	(I.R.S. employer
incorporation or organization)	identification no.)
440 South LaSalle Street, Suite 3300 Chicago, Illinois	60605-1028 (Zip Code)
(Address of principal executive offices)

Senior Debt Securities
(Title of the indenture securities)

Item 1. General Information.

Furnish the following information as to the trustee:

(a) Name and address of each examining or supervising authority to which it is subject.

Name	Address
Comptroller of the Currency	Washington, D.C.
Federal Reserve Bank of New York	New York, NY
33 Liberty Street
New York, NY
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation	Washington, D.C.

(b)	Whether it is authorized to exercise corporate trust powers.
	Yes.

Item 2. Affiliations with Obligor.

If the obligor is an affiliate of the trustee, describe each such affiliation.

None.

Item 16.	List of Exhibits.
	List below all exhibits filed as a part of this Statement of Eligibility.
	Exhibits identified in parentheses below, on file with the Commission, are incorporated herein by reference as exhibits hereto.
	Exhibit 1 — Copy of Articles of Association of the Trustee, as now in effect. (Exhibit 1 to T-1 to Registration Statement No. 2-79983)
	Exhibit 2 — Copy of certificate of authority of the Trustee to commence business. (Exhibit 2 to T-1 to Registration Statement No. 2-29577).
	Exhibit 3 — Copy of authorization of the Trustee to exercise corporate trust powers. (Exhibit 3 to T-1 to Registration Statement No. 2-55519)
	Exhibit 4 — Copy of existing By-Laws of the Trustee. (Exhibit 4 to T-1 to Registration Statement No. 33-34988)
	Exhibit 5 — Not applicable.

Exhibit 6 — The consent of the Trustee required by Section 321(b) of the Trust Indenture Act of 1939. (Exhibit 6 to T-1 to Registration Statement No. 33-19227.)

Exhibit 7 — Copy of the latest Report of Condition of Citibank, N.A. (as of December 31, 2005 — attached)

Exhibit 8 - Not applicable.

Exhibit 9 - Not applicable.

SIGNATURE

          Pursuant to the requirements of the Trust Indenture Act of 1939, the Trustee, Citibank, N.A., a national banking association organized and existing under the laws of the United States of America, has duly caused this statement of eligibility to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized, all in The City of New York and State of New York, on the 4th day of May, 2006.

CITIBANK, N.A.
By	/s/ John J. Byrnes John J. Byrnes
	Vice President

Charter No. 1461
Comptroller of the Currency
Northeastern District
REPORT OF CONDITION
CONSOLIDATING
DOMESTIC AND FOREIGN
SUBSIDIARIES OF

Citibank, N.A. of New York in the State of New York, at the close of business on December 31, 2005, published in response to call made by Comptroller of the Currency, under Title 12, United States Code, Section 161. Charter Number 1461 Comptroller of the Currency Northeastern District.

	Thousands of dollars
ASSETS
Cash and balances due from depository institutions:
Noninterest-bearing balances and currency and coin	$	15,706,000
Interest-bearing balances		22,704,000
Held-to-maturity securities		0
Available-for-sale securities		120,718,000
Federal funds sold in domestic Offices		6,925,000
Federal funds sold and securities purchased under agreements to resell		8,262,000
Loans and leases held for sale		2,635,000
Loans and lease financing receivables:
Loans and Leases, net of unearned income		385,998,000
LESS: Allowance for loan and lease losses		6,307,000
Loans and leases, net of unearned income, allowance, and reserve		379,691,000
Trading assets		86,966,000
Premises and fixed assets (including capitalized leases)		4,072,000
Other real estate owned		53,000
Investments in unconsolidated subsidiaries and associated companies		1,269,000
Customers’ liability to this bank on acceptances outstanding		994,000
Intangible assets: Goodwill		9,093,000
Intangible assets: Other intangible assets		10,644,000
Other assets		36,765,000
TOTAL ASSETS	$	706,497,000
LIABILITIES
Deposits: In domestic offices	$	135,426,000
Noninterest- bearing		23,360,000
Interest- bearing		112,066,000
In foreign offices, Edge and Agreement subsidiaries, and IBFs		350,564,000
Noninterest- bearing		28,842,000
Interest- bearing		321,722,000
Federal funds purchased in domestic Offices		11,516,000
Federal funds purchased and securities sold under agreements to repurchase		13,751,000
Demand notes issued to the U.S. Treasury		0

	Thousands of dollars
Trading liabilities		46,812,000
Other borrowed money (includes mortgage indebtedness and obligations under capitalized leases): ss		42,540,000
Bank’s liability on acceptances executed and outstanding		994,000
Subordinated notes and debentures		15,250,000
Other liabilities		32,883,000
TOTAL LIABILITIES	$	649,736,000
Minority interest in consolidated Subsidiaries		497,000
EQUITY CAPITAL
Perpetual preferred stock and related surplus		0
Common stock		751,000
Surplus		27,244,000
Retained Earnings		30,651,000
Accumulated net gains (losses) on cash flow hedges		–2,382,000
Other equity capital components		0
TOTAL EQUITY CAPITAL	$	56,264,000
TOTAL LIABILITIES AND EQUITY CAPITAL	$	706,497,000

I, William J. Gonska, Controller & Vice President of the above-named bank do hereby declare that this Report of Condition is true and correct to the best of my knowledge and belief.

William J. Gonska, CONTROLLER & VICE PRESIDENT

We, the undersigned directors, attest to the correctness of this Report of Condition. We declare that it has been examined by us, and to the best of our knowledge and belief has been prepared in conformance with the instructions and is true and correct.

ALAN S. MACDONALD
WILLIAM R. RHODES
SALLIE L. KRAWCHECK
DIRECTORS