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The blue PACE sign by the road at 2040 Corporate Lane, Naperville, under a maple turning red.

Pace Systems has been a Naperville company since 1983 and minority-owned since the day it was founded.

We started out supplying computer components and today we sell, install, and support the IT, security, electrical, and audio-visual systems that cities, school districts, colleges, hospitals, and businesses run on.

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Legal name
Pace Systems, Inc.
Incorporated
May 3, 1983, in Illinois
Address
2040 Corporate Lane, Naperville, IL 60563
Ownership
Privately held and minority-owned
Certified
MBE through the Chicago MSDC, and Illinois BEP
Electricians
IBEW Local 134 members
Alarm license
Illinois No. 127001360
Main line
630-395-2260

Since 1983

Naperville has been home to Pace since May 3, 1983.

That’s the day Pace Systems, Inc. was incorporated in Illinois, and we’ve operated out of Naperville ever since, so the company you call today is the same one that started here.

Our trailers and vans still carry that year on their sides, in the line “since 1983” under the PACE logo.

A whole white Pace trailer parked in the lot, with the PACE logo and the line since 1983 lettered on its side.

  1. 1983

    Computer components

    Our first business was supplying computer components, and we were minority-owned from the start.

  2. In the years since

    Security, electrical, IT, audio-visual, and software

    We grew from components into the work lettered on our trucks, with electricians from IBEW Local 134, and began writing our software in Naperville.

  3. Today

    • 150+people work for Pace
    • 600+jobs a year
    • 20+technicians on one site in a day
    • 4cooperative contracts to buy on
    • 650+municipal clients use our software
    • 98%of them renew

2040 Corporate Lane

Offices, lab, warehouse and loading dock share one building.

Our 40,000-square-foot facility houses all of these operations under one roof. From receiving and recording orders to imaging, storage and delivery preparation, everything is handled in one building.

An order that needs no setup skips the building and ships from the vendor or the distributor.

Pace’s white building at 2040 Corporate Lane, Naperville, from the air: the front corner, the car park, a red maple and the blue PACE sign by the road.
  1. The view as you walk into Pace’s office at 2040 Corporate Lane: a large screen on the wall showing the PACE logo and Pace Systems, Inc., with a framed certificate and a plaque to the left.

    The offices

    Our account managers, engineers, help desk and software developers all work here, in the same building as the lab and the warehouse.

  2. Long benches in Pace’s imaging lab, every monitor showing a computer being set up, with a pallet of boxed devices waiting.

    The imaging lab

    When an order calls for setup, we image, asset-tag and test each device at one of more than 100 stations here, and record its serial number for you.

  3. Rows of new white medical computer carts on the floor of Pace’s warehouse, under pallet racks of boxed equipment.

    The warehouse and the dock

    Every item is tagged to its order. If your building isn’t ready for your equipment yet, it waits here until you are, and then it leaves from our loading dock.

The people

Your account manager, lab technician and electrician work for Pace.

You work with one dedicated account manager, who quotes and handles every order and every project on your account, so you always know who to call.

Supporting your account manager are our engineers, who plan the networks, security systems and AV rooms, and our lab technicians, who image devices and build and cable medical computer carts for hospitals.

Our warehouse team, electricians from IBEW Local 134, installers, technicians, help desk staff, cybersecurity analysts, software developers and implementation specialists who build each new agency’s Pace Scheduler site all work for Pace too.

Most of them work in this building, and the crews travel to job sites throughout the Chicago area.

Two members of Pace’s warehouse team at work beside a medical computer cart, one in a Pace Systems hoodie, with racks behind.
Two of Pace’s warehouse team at the shipping desk, one turning from his keyboard with a smile, Pace’s web address and phone number on the whiteboard behind them.
Two Pace technicians, in a Pace polo shirt and a Pace hoodie, build medical computer carts side by side in Pace’s lab, cabling the cart bases under their monitors.
A member of Pace’s warehouse team drilling through a white panel at a workbench, with stacks of panels in front and shelves of parts behind.
A white Pace box truck at the loading dock, lettered Security, Electrical, IT and Audio/Visual.

The fleet

Around Chicago, your order arrives on a Pace truck.

Our box trucks deliver orders from our loading dock to buildings around Chicago, while our vans, pickups, trailers and bucket truck transport crews and equipment to job sites.

Orders going anywhere else in the U.S. ship with a carrier, and the tracking number is available in the Pace Hub.

A white Pace pickup with a ladder rack and the PACE logo on the door.
A white Pace van lettered with the PACE logo and Security, Electrical, IT and Audio/Visual.
A Pace bucket truck and a Pace trailer in the lot under a blue sky.

Ownership

Purchasing offices can count Pace as a certified minority-owned business.

We’re privately held, and the National Minority Supplier Development Council certifies us as a Minority Business Enterprise through its Chicago council. Our certificate is renewed annually.

The State of Illinois certifies us under its Business Enterprise Program as well, and both certificates are current.

Pace Systems, Inc. is an Illinois corporation in good standing. If your office needs our W-9, certificate of insurance or MBE certificates, we can provide them the same day you ask.

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Customers

Most of Pace’s work comes from customers who come back.

The customers we can name include cities, a county, an airport, school districts, colleges and universities, hospitals, an arena, a hotel and a manufacturer. Five of these customers have continued to work with us year after year.

All case studies

  1. Daley College, City Colleges of ChicagoWe did the power, fire alarm, AV and network for a new 57,000-square-foot engineering center.Every year
  2. Chicago Public SchoolsWe upgraded video surveillance at dozens of CPS high schools and elementary schools and installed keyless staff entry systems at nearly 50 schools.Every year
  3. RushWe imaged and asset-tagged nearly 4,000 HP mini PCs on one order.Every year
  4. UChicago MedicineWe imaged and asset-tagged about 2,200 laptops and placed field engineers on its team.Every year
  5. RPM International and Rust-OleumWe supply, image and asset-tag laptops and PCs for Rust-Oleum and other RPM companies.Every year
  6. O’Hare International AirportWe moved Guard Post 1H onto a new electrical panel, powered 76 SageGlass units at the Admirals Club and installed a zoned PA system in the Airport Maintenance Complex.
  7. Wintrust Arena at McCormick PlaceOur crews installed the arena’s Cisco network and its broadcast cabling.
  8. University of Chicago Booth School of BusinessWe built a lecture capture system that records more than 35 classrooms at once.
  9. Northwestern UniversityWe designed and installed the AV systems for the Norris University Center’s outdoor pavilion and Campus Pub, using Crestron control.
  10. The Palmer HouseOur crews ran the cabling and power for more than 1,200 Wi-Fi access points.
  11. Illinois TollwayWe replaced the UPS units for its toll-collection system and installed about 150 heated enclosures.
  12. Village of Hoffman EstatesWe installed Wi-Fi throughout NOW Arena and video surveillance for the village.
  13. School District U-46, ElginWe assembled about 1,600 display stands and delivered laptops in batches of 1,300 to 1,400.
  14. Cook CountyWe installed video surveillance in three of the county’s courthouses and trained the staff who operate it.

Awards and memberships

The Illinois Tollway named us DBE Subcontractor of the Year.

The award was for our job-order work at the Tollway’s maintenance facilities in Aurora and Downers Grove.

Axis Communications, the camera manufacturer, named us a Solution Gold Partner. We’re also a member of GMIS Illinois, an association for technology professionals in local government.

We were a platinum sponsor of the IBEW Local 134 Helping Hand Fund and were recognized by Southland Salutes for supporting its BBQ 4 Vets.

Four plaques on a shelf in Pace’s office: Southland Salutes’ thank-you, IBEW Local 134 Helping Hand Fund platinum sponsor, the Illinois Tollway’s DBE Subcontractor of the Year Award and Axis Communications Solution Gold Partner.
A GMIS Illinois new-member plaque beside a carved Pace plaque, Proud Sponsor of the Hodgkins F.O.P. Golf Outing.

What we do

Security, electrical, IT, AV and software all come from Pace.

A city, for instance, can buy its laptops from us, have our crews install its cameras and door access and have its council chamber fitted out, all on one account.

We also develop the Pace Municipal Suite, and police, sheriff, fire, dispatch and corrections departments across the U.S. and Canada schedule their shifts with Pace Scheduler.

All eight servicesThe Pace Municipal Suite

Visit Pace

Come and see the imaging lab and warehouse in Naperville.

Visits are by appointment, so call 630-395-2260 to schedule a time. We’ll walk you through the imaging lab, warehouse and loading dock where your order would leave from.

If you’d rather start with a price, send us your list, since standard items are usually quoted the same business day.

Get a quoteCall 630-395-2260

Pace’s conference room: a long table, black chairs, a wall screen and windows.