Exhibit (23)-2
                                                     Commonwealth Edison Company
                                                     Form 10-K  File No. 1-1839



                   CONSENT OF INDEPENDENT PUBLIC ACCOUNTANTS
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     As independent public accountants, we hereby consent to the incorporation
by reference in this Form 10-K of our report dated January 26, 1996, on
Commonwealth Edison Company and subsidiary companies' consolidated financial
statements as of and for the year ended December 31, 1995 (Report), included in
Commonwealth Edison Company's Current Report on Form 8-K dated January 26, 1996,
to the inclusion in this Form 10-K of our report dated January 26, 1996, on the
supplemental schedule of Commonwealth Edison Company as of and for the year
ended December 31, 1995, and to the incorporation of such reports into
Commonwealth Edison Company's previously filed prospectuses as follows: (1)
prospectus dated August 21, 1986, constituting part of Form S-3 Registration
Statement File No. 33-6879, as amended (relating to the Company's Debt
Securities and Common Stock); (2) prospectus dated January 7, 1994, constituting
part of Form S-3 Registration Statement File No. 33-51379 (relating to the
Company's Debt Securities and Cumulative Preference Stock); and (3) prospectus
dated September 19, 1995, constituting part of Amendment No. 1 to Form S-3
Registration Statement File No. 33-61343, as amended (relating to Company-
Obligated Mandatorily Redeemable Preferred Securities of Subsidiary Trust). We
also consent to the application of our Report, incorporated by reference in this
Form 10-K, to the ratios of earnings to fixed charges and the ratios of earnings
to fixed charges and preferred and preference stock dividend requirements for
each of the years ended December 31, 1995, 1994 and 1993 appearing in Exhibit 99
of Unicom Corporation's Current Report on Form 8-K dated January 26, 1996.



                                         ARTHUR ANDERSEN LLP



Chicago, Illinois
March 28, 1996