Pace Suburban Bus

Pace Suburban Bus (Pace) is a public transit agency serving suburban communities in the Chicago metropolitan area in Illinois, United States. Pace also is the sole paratransit provider in northeastern Illinois, operating one of the largest paratransit services in the United States for riders with disabilities. In 2025, Pace reported ridership of approximately 16.4 million, reflecting 67% of pre-pandemic ridership recovery.

Pace is one of the three service boards financially supported by the Regional Transportation Authority, created by the Regional Transportation Authority Act of 1983. The three service boards, including Pace, Metra, and the Chicago Transit Authority (CTA). The law, in part, unified disparate suburban bus agencies that existed at the time and established the formula that provides funding to the service boards, which make up the transit network in northeastern Illinois.

Today, Pace’s family of services provides transit options for residents living in 274 municipalities located throughout Cook, DuPage, Kane, Lake, McHenry, and Will counties. As one of the largest bus providers in North America, Pace covers 3,677 square miles, an area that is about 15 times the size of the City of Chicago, serving approximately 127,000 daily riders.

Pace is headquartered in Arlington Heights, Illinois, and the agency is governed by a 13-member Board of Directors, 12 of which are current and former suburban mayors who represent their respective communities in the northeastern Illinois region. The remaining director is the Commissioner of the Chicago Mayor's Office for People with Disabilities, who represents the City of Chicago's paratransit riders.