Aventine's assets include the Pekin campus on the east bank of the Illinois River, 257km southwest of Chicago, which has been producing ethanol since 1981. The premises were originally built in 1899 as a facility for sugar-processing. The Pekin site has plants utilising both wet- and dry-mill processes. It has one of the few coal-fired, wet-mill corn plants in the country, and the site currently has the capacity to produce approximately 100 million gallons (378.5