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                                                                    Exhibit 10.1

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                             PARTICIPATION AGREEMENT

                           Dated as of April 26, 2000

                                      among

                                MARCHFIRST, INC.,
                    Lessee, Construction Agent and Guarantor

                 MARCHFIRST, INC. HEADQUARTERS TRUST NO. 2000-1
            WILMINGTON TRUST COMPANY, not in its individual capacity,
   except as expressly provided herein, but solely as Owner Trustee under the
  Trust Agreement dated as of the date hereof, between Owner Trustee and Lessor

                     THE PERSONS NAMED ON SCHEDULE I HERETO,
                             as Certificate Holders

                                  BANK ONE, NA,
                     and the various financial institutions
                party to the Loan Agreement from time to time as
                       the Tranche A and Tranche B Lenders

                                       and

                                  BANK ONE, NA,
                                      Agent

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                    Synthetic Lease Financing of Headquarters

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                                Table of Contents

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SECTION 1. DEFINITIONS; INTERPRETATION.......................................2

SECTION 2. DOCUMENTATION DATE; ACQUISITION DATE..............................3

   (a) Documentation Date....................................................3
   (b) Site Acquisition Date.................................................3

SECTION 3. FUNDING OF ADVANCES...............................................4

   (a) Certificate Holders' Commitment.......................................4
   (b) Lenders' Commitment...................................................4
   (c) Procedures for Advances...............................................4
   (d) Allocation of Advances................................................6

SECTION 4. YIELD; INTEREST; COMMITMENT FEES..................................6

   (a) Yield.................................................................6
   (b) Interest on Loans.....................................................7
   (c) Prepayments of Loans and Equity Amounts...............................7
   (d) Nonuse Fee; Other Fees................................................7
   (e) Interest and Yield Protection.........................................8
   (f) Notice of Yield and Interest.........................................10
   (g) Collateralized Margin................................................10

SECTION 5. CERTAIN INTENTIONS OF THE PARTIES; DISTRIBUTIONS.................11

   (a) Nature of Transaction................................................11
   (b) Amounts Due Under Master Lease.......................................12
   (c) Agreement to Pay Amounts Due With Respect to Tranche A Loans.........12
   (d) Distribution.........................................................12

SECTION 6. REPRESENTATIONS, WARRANTIES AND AGREEMENTS OF THE
PARTICIPANTS................................................................17

   (a) Representations and Warranties.......................................17
   (b) Additional Representations and Warranties............................17
   (c) Covenants of the Participants........................................18
   (d) Covenants of the Agent...............................................18
   (e) Covenants of the Certificate Holders.................................19

SECTION 7. REPRESENTATIONS, WARRANTIES AND AGREEMENTS OF
WILMINGTON TRUST COMPANY AND OWNER TRUSTEE..................................19

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   (a) Wilmington Trust Company Representations and Warranties..............19
   (b) Wilmington Trust Company Agreements..................................20
   (c) Owner Trustee and Trust Representations and Warranties...............21
   (d) Owner Trustee and Trust Agreements...................................23

SECTION 8. REPRESENTATIONS, WARRANTIES AND AGREEMENTS OF LESSEE,
CONSTRUCTION AGENT AND GUARANTOR............................................23

   (a) General Representations and Warranties...............................23
   (b) Site Acquisition Date Representations and Warranties.................29
   (c) Funding Date Representations and Warranties..........................30
   (d) Agreements...........................................................34

SECTION 9. CONDITIONS PRECEDENT TO DOCUMENTATION DATE, SITE
ACQUISITION DATES AND ADVANCES..............................................40

   (a) Conditions Precedent to the Documentation Date.......................41
   (b) Conditions Precedent to each Advance.................................42
   (c) Further Conditions to each Site Acquisition Date.....................44
   (d) Conditions to Initial Construction Advance...........................47

SECTION 10. COMPLETION DATE CONDITIONS......................................48

   (a) Completion Date......................................................48
   (b) Reappraisal Upon Completion..........................................48

SECTION 11. TRANSFERS OF LENDERS INTERESTS..................................49

   (a) Permitted Assignments................................................49
   (b) Effect; Effective Date...............................................49
   (c) Rights of Transferees................................................49
   (d) Withholding Taxes; Disclosure of Information; Pledge Under
       Regulation A.........................................................50

SECTION 12. TRANSFERS OF CERTIFICATE HOLDERS INTEREST.......................50

   (a) Assignments..........................................................50
   (b) Rights of Transferees................................................51
   (c) Withholding Taxes; Disclosure of Information; Pledge Under
       Regulation A.........................................................51

SECTION 13. GENERAL TAX INDEMNITY...........................................52

   (a) Tax Indemnitee Defined...............................................52
   (b) Taxes Indemnified....................................................52
   (c) Taxes Excluded.......................................................53
   (d) Payments to the Lessee...............................................56
   (e) Procedures...........................................................57
   (f) Contest..............................................................57
   (g) Reports..............................................................59

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   (h) Non-Parties..........................................................59
   (i) Survival.............................................................59
   (j) Construction Period..................................................59

SECTION 14. GENERAL INDEMNITY...............................................60

   (a) Indemnification......................................................60
   (b) Survival.............................................................62
   (c) Certain Exceptions...................................................62
   (d) Claims Procedure.....................................................63
   (e) Subrogation..........................................................63
   (f) Insured Claims.......................................................64
   (g) Waiver of Certain Claims.............................................64
   (h) Consent..............................................................64
   (i) Construction Period..................................................64

SECTION 15. TRANSACTION EXPENSES............................................64

   (a) Transaction Expenses.................................................65
   (b) Brokers' Fees and Stamp Taxes........................................65
   (c) Loan Agreement and Related Obligations...............................65

SECTION 16. CONSENT TO JURISDICTION.........................................65

SECTION 17. LIMITATIONS OF LIABILITY OF OWNER TRUSTEE.......................66

SECTION 18. LIMITATION OF LIABILITY OF CERTIFICATE HOLDERS..................66

SECTION 19. NOTICES.........................................................67

SECTION 20. SURVIVAL OF REPRESENTATIONS; BINDING EFFECT.....................67

SECTION 21. THE AGENT.......................................................67

   (a) Appointment; Nature of Relationship..................................67
   (b) Powers...............................................................68
   (c) General Immunity.....................................................68
   (d) No Responsibility for Recitals, etc..................................68
   (e) Action on Instructions of Participants...............................68
   (f) Employment of Agents and Counsel.....................................69
   (g) Reliance on Documents; Counsel.......................................69
   (h) Agent's Reimbursement and Indemnification............................69
   (i) Notice of Default....................................................69
   (j) Rights as a Participant..............................................70

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   (k) Participant Credit Decision..........................................70
   (l) Successor Agent......................................................70
   (m) Agent's Fee..........................................................71
   (n) Delegation to Affiliates.............................................71
   (p) Collateral Releases..................................................71

SECTION 22. MISCELLANEOUS...................................................71

   (a) Counterpart Execution................................................71
   (b) Governing Law........................................................71
   (c) Amendments, Supplements, Waivers.....................................71
   (d) Headings.............................................................72
   (e) Business Day.........................................................72
   (f) Reproduction of Documents............................................73
   (g) Opinions.............................................................73
   (h) Survival of Agreements...............................................73
   (i) Enforcement..........................................................73
   (j) Preservation of Rights...............................................73
   (k) Entire Agreement.....................................................74

APPENDIX, SCHEDULES AND EXHIBITS

      APPENDIX A        Definitions and Interpretation
      APPENDIX B        Pricing Schedule

      SCHEDULE 1        Commitments of Participants
      SCHEDULE 2        Payment Instructions
      SCHEDULE 8(a)(8)  Taxes
      SCHEDULE 8(a)(22) Subsidiaries
      SCHEDULE 8(a)(24) Liens
      SCHEDULE 8(d)(9)  Existing Investments
      SCHEDULE 9(d)(1)  Construction Milestones

      EXHIBIT A         Form of Trust Agreement
      EXHIBIT B         Form of Master Lease
      EXHIBIT C         Form of Annual No Default Certificate
      EXHIBIT D-1       Form of Opinion of Internal Counsel of the Lessee
      EXHIBIT D-2       Form of Opinion of Special Counsel to the Lessee
      EXHIBIT E         Form of Opinion of Special Counsel to Wilmington Trust
                        Company and Owner Trustee
      EXHIBIT F         Form of Completion Certificate
      EXHIBIT G         Form of Lender Mortgage
      EXHIBIT H         Form of Funding Request
      EXHIBIT I         Form of Construction Certificate
      EXHIBIT J-1       Form of Assignment Agreement (Lender)
      EXHIBIT J-2       Form of Assignment Agreement (Certificate Holders)
      EXHIBIT K         Form of Compliance Certificate

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      EXHIBIT L         Redevelopment Agreement and Recognition and Consent
                        Agreement
      EXHIBIT M         Investment in Blue Vector

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                             PARTICIPATION AGREEMENT

      THIS PARTICIPATION AGREEMENT (this "Participation Agreement") dated as of
April 26, 2000 is entered into by and among MARCHFIRST, INC., a Delaware
corporation, as Lessee, Construction Agent and Guarantor (together with its
permitted successors and assigns, in its capacity as Lessee, the "Lessee", in
its capacity as Construction Agent, the "Construction Agent", and in its
capacity as Guarantor, the "Guarantor"); WILMINGTON TRUST COMPANY, a Delaware
banking corporation, not in its individual capacity except as expressly provided
herein, but solely as trustee under the Trust Agreement (in such capacity,
together with its successors and permitted assigns under the Trust Agreement the
"Owner Trustee"); MARCHFIRST, INC. HEADQUARTERS TRUST NO. 2000-1, a Delaware
business trust (the "Lessor"); the Persons named on Schedule 1 hereto (together
with their respective permitted successors, assigns and transferees), as owners
of the beneficial interest in the Lessor ("Certificate Holders"); BANK ONE, NA
(with its principal office in Chicago, Illinois) and various financial
institutions party to the Loan Agreement from time to time as the Tranche A and
Tranche B Lenders thereunder (together with each of their permitted successors
and assigns, the "Lenders"); and BANK ONE, NA, in its capacity as Agent
(together with its successors and assigns in such capacity from time to time,
the "Agent") for the Lenders;

                              W I T N E S S E T H:

      WHEREAS, (i) First Chicago Leasing Corporation ("FCLC"), as tenant, and
Lessee, as landlord, have previously entered into that certain Ground Lease
dated as of December 22, 1999 (the "Existing Ground Lease") relating to the
Parking Facility Site, and (ii) FCLC, as lessor, and Lessee, as lessee, have
previously entered into that certain Lease dated as of December 22, 1999 (the
"Existing Lease") relating to the Parking Facility Site, (iii) FCLC and Lessee
have previously entered into that certain Construction Agency Agreement dated as
of December 22, 1999 (the "Existing Construction Agency Agreement") relating to
the Parking Facility Site, and (iv) FCLC and Lessee have previously entered into
that certain Master Agreement dated as of December 22, 1999 (the "Existing
Master Agreement") relating to the foregoing agreements;

      WHEREAS, pursuant to the terms and provisions of the Trust Agreement
(which is substantially in the form of Exhibit A hereto), the Certificate
Holders have authorized the Owner Trustee to take certain actions with respect
to the transactions contemplated hereby for the purpose of providing financing
for (i) the acquisition of a ground leasehold interest in the Parking Facility
Site by assignment from FCLC, (ii) the acquisition of a ground leasehold
interest in the Fulton Center Site under such terms and conditions as may be
agreed upon between Lessee and the Participants (the Parking Facility Site and
Fulton Center Site each, a "Land Interest"), and (iii) the acquisition or
construction of certain facilities currently located or to be constructed on the
Land Interests ground leased by the Lessor for the Lessee including the
acquisition of certain equipment (the "Equipment") currently located or to be
located on and used in connection with certain Land Interests acquired or ground
leased by the Lessor for the Lessee (collectively, with respect to each Land
Interest, "Improvements") ;

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      WHEREAS, each Land Interest, upon becoming subject to a Lease Supplement,
together with any improvements located thereon and any Improvements thereafter
constructed thereon is called a "Site" and all thereof are collectively called
the "Sites";

      WHEREAS, (i) Lessee shall ground lease the Land Interests relating to the
Sites and any improvements then located thereon to the Lessor, (ii) Lessee, as
Construction Agent, shall construct the Improvements on some or all of the Land
Interests and shall apply Advances from Lessor to pay the costs thereof and to
pay for Equipment, and (iii) Lessee shall lease the Sites from Lessor for the
Basic Term pursuant to the Master Lease (which is substantially in the form of
Exhibit B hereto) dated as of even date herewith;

      WHEREAS, the Certificate Holders are willing personally to provide a
portion of the funding of the costs of acquisition of the Sites and the
Improvements;

      WHEREAS, the Lessor wishes to obtain, and the Lenders are willing to
provide, financing of the remaining portion of the funding of the costs of
acquisition of the Sites and the Improvements;

      WHEREAS, the Lessee contemplates leasing from the Lessor the Sites,
including the Improvements constructed thereon by the Lessee in its capacity as
Construction Agent; and

      WHEREAS, to secure such financing, the Lenders will have, to the extent
provided in the Operative Documents, the benefit of a Lien from the Lessor on
the Lessor's right, title and interest in the Sites and on substantially all of
the Lessor's rights against the Lessee under the Master Lease and Lease
Supplements and against the Construction Agent under the Construction Agency
Agreement;

      NOW, THEREFORE, in consideration of the mutual agreements contained in
this Participation Agreement and other good and valuable consideration, the
receipt and sufficiency of which are hereby acknowledged, the parties hereto
agree as follows:

SECTION 1. DEFINITIONS; INTERPRETATION.

      Unless the context shall otherwise require, capitalized terms used and not
defined herein shall have the meanings assigned thereto in Appendix A hereto for
all purposes hereof; and the rules of interpretation set forth in Appendix A
hereto shall apply to this Participation Agreement.

      Anything to the contrary herein notwithstanding, (i) the Lessee is the
owner of the fee interest in the Land which is subject to the Ground Lease, the
Master Lease and the other Operative Documents and (ii) neither the Ground Lease
nor the Master Lease nor any other of the Operative Documents is intended to
transfer any rights in the fee interest in the said land (or any rights of the
Ground Lessor under the Ground Lease)to Lessor (as tenant under the Ground
Lease, lessor under the Master Lease or otherwise), except for the lease of said
land to Lessor, as tenant under the Ground Lease, or to Agent or any Participant
(whether pursuant to the Mortgage, or otherwise), and (iii) except as and to the
extent expressly set forth in Section 6(d)(2)(ix), 6(d)(3) and Section 6(g) of
the Master Lease and Sections 24 and 25 of the Ground Lease, neither the Ground
Lease, the Master Lease nor any of the other Operative Documents is

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intended to create any obligation to transfer any right in the fee interest in
said land (or any rights of the Ground Lessor under the Ground Lease) to any
such Person.

SECTION 2. DOCUMENTATION DATE; ACQUISITION DATE.

      (a) Documentation Date. The Documentation Date (the "Documentation Date")
shall occur (and the Master Agreement shall be amended and restated by this
Participation Agreement) on the earliest date on which the following conditions
precedent shall have been satisfied:

            (i) Participation Agreement. This Participation Agreement shall have
been duly authorized, executed and delivered by the parties hereto.

            (ii) Ground Lease. The Ground Lease shall have been duly authorized,
executed and delivered by the parties thereto, effecting an amendment and
restatement of the Existing Ground Lease.

            (iii) Master Lease. The Master Lease shall have been duly
authorized, executed and delivered by the parties thereto, effecting an
amendment and restatement of the Existing Lease.

            (iv) Construction Agency Agreement; Construction Documents
Assignment. The Construction Agency Agreement and the Construction Documents
Assignment shall have been duly authorized, executed and delivered by the
parties thereto, effecting an amendment and restatement of the Existing
Construction Agency Agreement.

            (v) Construction Agency Agreement Assignment. The Construction
Agency Agreement Assignment shall have been duly authorized, executed and
delivered by the Lessor, as assignor, in favor of the Agent, and consented to
and acknowledged by the Construction Agent.

            (vi) Loan Agreement. The Loan Agreement shall have been duly
authorized, executed and delivered by the parties thereto.

            (vii) Assignment of Leases and Rents. The Master Assignment of
Leases and Rents shall have been duly authorized, executed and delivered by the
Lessor, as assignor, in favor of the Agent, and consented to and acknowledged by
the Lessee.

            (viii) Fees. The Lessee shall have paid in full all fees then due
and payable pursuant to the Fee Letter.

            (ix) Structural Guaranty; Other Operative Documents. The Structural
Guaranty and the other Operative Documents to be delivered in connection with
the Documentation Date shall have been duly authorized, executed and delivered
by the parties thereto.

      (b) Site Acquisition Date. For each Land Interest, the closing date with
respect to the acquisition of the ground leasehold interest therein (each, a
"Site Acquisition Date") shall

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occur on the earliest date on or after the Documentation Date on which all the
conditions precedent thereto set forth in Section 9 with respect to the
acquisition thereof shall have been satisfied or waived by the applicable
parties as set forth therein.

SECTION 3. FUNDING OF ADVANCES.

      (a) Certificate Holders' Commitment. (i) Subject to the conditions and
terms hereof, the Certificate Holders shall cause the Lessor to take the
following actions with respect to the Property at the written request of the
Lessee from time to time during the Construction Period:

                  (1) the Lessor shall ground lease the Sites from the Lessee
            (using funds provided by the Participants) under the Ground Lease;

                  (2) the Lessor shall make Advances (out of funds provided by
            the Participants) to the Construction Agent for the purpose of the
            renovation and construction of Improvements thereon; and

                  (3) the Lessor shall lease the Sites to the Lessee under the
            Master Lease and the Lease Supplement.

Notwithstanding any other provision hereof, the Lessor shall not be obligated to
make any Advance with respect to any Site if, after giving effect thereto, the
aggregate outstanding amounts of the Tranche A Loans, Tranche B Loans and the
Equity Amount allocable to such Site would exceed the Commitments of the Tranche
A Lenders, the Tranche B Lenders and the Certificate Holders, respectively, for
such Site.

            (ii) Subject to the conditions and terms hereof, the Certificate
      Holders shall personally make available at the request of the Lessee from
      time to time during the Construction Period with respect to the Sites, on
      each Funding Date an amount (each an "Equity Amount") in immediately
      available funds equal to the Certificate Holders' Commitment Percentage of
      the amount of the Advance being funded on such Funding Date.
      Notwithstanding any other provision hereof, the Certificate Holders shall
      not be obligated to make available any Equity Amount if, after giving
      effect to the proposed Equity Amount, the outstanding aggregate amount of
      Equity Amounts would exceed the Certificate Holders' Commitment.

      (b) Lenders' Commitment. Subject to the conditions and terms hereof, the
Lenders severally shall make Loans with respect to the Sites to the Lessor at
the request of the Lessee from time to time during the Construction Period, on
each Funding Date in an amount in immediately available funds equal to each such
Lender's Commitment Percentage of the amount of the Advance being funded on such
Funding Date. Notwithstanding any other provision hereof, no Lender shall be
obligated to make any Loan if, after giving effect to the proposed Loan, the
outstanding aggregate amount of such Lender's Loans would exceed such Lender's
Commitment.

      (c) Procedures for Advances. (i) (i) With respect to each funding of an
Advance, the Lessee shall give the Lessor and the Agent prior written notice not
later than 11:00 a.m., Chicago

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time, three (3) Business Days (unless waived) prior to the proposed Funding Date
pursuant to an irrevocable Funding Request substantially in the form of Exhibit
H (a "Funding Request"), specifying: the proposed Funding Date and the amount of
Advance requested. Any Participant may require a duly completed compliance
certificate in substantially the form of Exhibit K as a condition to making an
Advance. With respect to each Funding Request for a Site Acquisition Date, in
addition to the foregoing, the Lessee hereby directs the Lessor to ground lease
the Site and the Lessee shall also specify the Estimated Improvement Costs for
the Site. Each funding shall be in an amount equal to $1,000,000 or an integral
multiple of $100,000 in excess thereof. Lessee shall be allowed a maximum of
three (3) separate LIBO Rate tranches. The proceeds of each funding will be used
to reimburse the Construction Agent for paid Site Costs and to pay accrued and
unpaid interest and Yield and Transaction Expenses; and the Funding Date
therefor shall be a date on or before the applicable Scheduled Payment Date;
provided, however, that if the Lessee fails to duly and timely submit a Funding
Request which provides for the payment of accrued and unpaid interest and Yield
and Transaction Expenses on the applicable Scheduled Payment Date, the Lessee
hereby irrevocably authorizes and directs the Agent (at its option) to cause the
Participants to fund to the Participants such amounts as may be necessary to pay
in full all accrued and unpaid interest and Yield and Transaction Expenses then
due and payable during the Construction Period for such Site and for the one (1)
calendar month thereafter. Fundings for Site Costs (other than interest and
Yield) for any Site shall be made during the Construction Period for such Site.

            (ii) Upon satisfaction or waiver of the conditions precedent to such
Advance set forth in Section 9, in the case of an Advance for the acquisition of
a ground leasehold interest in a Land Interest, the Lessor, as directed by the
Certificate Holders acting at the request of the Lessee, shall pay all Land
Acquisition Costs and pay Transaction Expenses in connection with such
acquisition, and in the case of other Advances, the Lessee, as Construction
Agent, shall pay or retain as payment or reimbursement of Site Costs or
Transaction Expenses the funds provided by the Certificate Holders and the
Lenders for such Advance. The transfer by any Participant of its portion of an
Advance shall evidence such Participant's satisfaction that the conditions
precedent to such Advance have been met or waived. Except as set forth above and
as the parties may otherwise agree in writing, Advances shall be made solely to
provide the Construction Agent with funds with which to pay or reimburse itself
for Site Costs or Transaction Expenses, as the case may be.

            (iii) All remittances made by the Participants for the funding of
any Advance shall be made on the applicable Funding Date in immediately
available Federal funds by wire transfer to the accounts specified in the
applicable Funding Request. Subject to the prior satisfaction of all of the
applicable conditions set forth in Section 9, the Participants will use
reasonable efforts to fund the applicable Advance prior to 1:00 p.m., Chicago
time, on such Funding Date.

            (iv) In no event will (i) the total Property Cost at any time exceed
$93,000,000.00, in the aggregate for the Property under construction or
completed and still subject to the Master Lease, nor (ii) the Site Cost
allocable to the Parking Facility Site exceed $23,000,000.00, nor (iii) the Site
Cost allocable to the Fulton Center Site exceed $70,000,000.00.

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      (d) Allocation of Advances. All Advances shall be allocated between the
Sites in accordance with the Funding Request. Advance amounts which do not
specifically relate to any one Site may be allocated and reallocated by the
Lessee from time to time among the Sites in accordance with their respective
Construction Budgets. Amounts due from Lessee, including Supplemental Rent,
shall be allocated to the specific Site to which such amounts relate; provided,
however, that if any amount does not specifically relate to any particular Site,
such amount shall be allocated among the Sites pro rata in accordance with the
Commitment for each of such Sites. Allocations of payments will be made based
upon the source of such payment as described in Section 5(d). Specifically,
without limitation, the Lessee shall maintain a ledger of the allocation of the
following amounts between the Sites from time to time until expiration or
termination of the Master Lease, based upon the Advances allocable to each of
the Sites and allocation of payments under Section 5(d):

      Available Loan Commitments
      Available Equity Commitments
      Basic Rent
      Equity Balance
      Equity Basic Rent
      Equity Amount
      Lease Balance
      Lender Basic Rent
      Loan Balance
      Participant Balance

SECTION 4. YIELD; INTEREST; COMMITMENT FEES.

      (a) Yield.

            (i) The amount of the Equity Amounts outstanding from time to time
shall accrue yield ("Yield") at the Yield Rate, calculated using the actual
number of days elapsed and, when the Yield Rate is determined by reference to
the LIBO Rate (Reserve Adjusted) or the Alternate Base Rate not based upon the
Prime Rate, a 360-day year basis and, when the Yield Rate is determined by
reference to the Alternate Base Rate based upon the Prime Rate, a 365- (or, if
applicable, 366-) day year basis. If all or any portion of the Equity Amounts,
any Yield payable thereon or any other amount payable to any Certificate
Holders, Lessor or Owner Trustee hereunder shall not be paid when due (whether
at stated maturity, acceleration thereof or otherwise), such overdue amount
shall bear interest at a rate per annum which is equal to the Overdue Rate.

            (ii) The Lessee shall, pursuant to the Assignment of Leases and
Rents, deposit in the Account the Equity Basic Rent (determined on the basis of
accrued Yield due in accordance with clause (i) above) and all other amounts due
with respect to the Equity Amounts payable by the Lessee under the Master Lease
from time to time.

            (iii) During the Construction Period for each Site, Yield with
respect to such Site shall accrue on outstanding Equity Amounts and shall be
funded monthly by the Certificate

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Holders and the Lenders pursuant to Section 3(a) and (b). During the Basic Term,
such Yield shall be paid as a component of Basic Rent.

      (b) Interest on Loans. (i) The amount of each Loan shall accrue interest
at the applicable rate set forth in the Loan Agreement, calculated using the
actual number of days elapsed and, when the interest on the Loans is determined
by reference to the LIBO Rate (Reserve Adjusted) or the Alternate Base Rate not
based upon the Prime Rate, a 360-day year basis and, when such interest is
determined by reference to the Alternate Base Rate based upon the Prime Rate, a
365- (or, if applicable, 366-) day year basis. If all or any portion of the
Loans, any interest payable thereon or any other amount payable to any Lender,
or the Agent hereunder shall not be paid when due (whether at stated maturity,
acceleration thereof or otherwise), such overdue amount shall bear interest at a
rate per annum which is equal to the Overdue Rate.

            (ii) The Lessee shall, pursuant to the Assignment of Leases and
Rents, deposit in the Account the Lender Basic Rent (determined on the basis of
amounts due in accordance with clause (i) above) and all other amounts due with
respect to the Loans payable by the Lessee under the Master Lease from time to
time.

            (iii) During the Construction Period for each Site interest with
respect to such Site shall accrue on outstanding Loans and shall be funded
monthly by the Certificate Holders and the Lenders pursuant to Section 3(a) and
(b). During the Basic Term, such interest shall be paid as a component of Basic
Rent.

      (c) Prepayments of Loans and Equity Amounts. In the event that the Lessee
pays the Property Balance to the Lessor in connection with the Lessee's purchase
of the Property in accordance with Sections 6, 11 or 16 of the Master Lease, the
Lessor will prepay the entire outstanding principal amount of the Loans and
Equity Amounts. Each of the Lenders and the Lessor hereby acknowledges that its
Loans or Equity Amounts, as the case may be, may be so prepaid without any
prepayment premium other than Break Costs and other amounts pursuant to Section
4(e)(iii).

      (d) Nonuse Fee; Other Fees. The Lessee agrees to pay the fees set forth in
this Section 4(d). During the Construction Period fees may, subject to the
conditions hereof (including without limitation the last sentence of Section
3(a)(i)), be paid or reimbursed with the proceeds of an Advance.

            (i) Nonuse Fee. The Lessee agrees to pay to each Tranche A Lender,
each Tranche B Lender and each Certificate Holder for the Construction Period
(including any portion of such Construction Period when any Participant's
Commitment is suspended by reason of the Lessee's inability to satisfy any
condition of Section 9), a nonuse fee (collectively, the "Nonuse Fee") at a per
annum rate equal to the Applicable Nonuse Fee Percentage on such Participant's
Commitment Percentage of the sum of the Available Commitments. The Nonuse Fee
shall be payable by the Lessee in arrears with respect to each three-month
period (or portion thereof, for the first and last such periods) following the
Documentation Date on the first day of each January, April, July and October
(provided, however, that if such day is not a Business Day, such payment shall
be due on the immediately preceding Business Day in the full amount due on such
first day), commencing July 1, 2000 through and including the first day
immediately following

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the expiration of the Construction Period, and shall be determined on the basis
of the daily average Available Commitments during each such three-month period.
The Nonuse Fee shall be computed on the basis of the actual number of days
(including the first day but excluding the last day) occurring during the period
for which such Nonuse Fee is payable over a year of 360 days.

            (ii) Other Fees. The Lessee agrees to pay (w) to the Arranger for
the account of the initial Certificate Holders and Lenders an upfront fee in the
amount set forth in the Fee Letter, payable on the Documentation Date, (x) to
the Agent, for its own account, the Annual Administration Fees, payable on the
Documentation Date and thereafter annually in arrears, (y) to the Arranger, for
its own account, the fees set out in the Fee Letter, and (z) to the Agent, for
the account of the Owner Trustee, the Owner Trustee's Expenses.

      (e) Interest and Yield Protection.

            (i) Alternate Rate of Interest. If prior to the commencement of any
Interest Period for an Advance with interest or Yield determined by reference to
the LIBO Rate (Reserve Adjusted):

                  (1) the Agent determines (which determination shall be
            conclusive absent manifest error) that adequate and reasonable means
            do not exist for ascertaining the Adjusted LIBO Rate or the LIBO
            Rate, as applicable, for such Interest Period; or

                  (2) the Agent is advised by any Participant or Participants
            that because of a change in circumstances affecting the eurocurrency
            market generally the Adjusted LIBO Rate or the LIBO Rate, as
            applicable, for such Interest Period will not adequately and fairly
            reflect the cost to such Participants (or Participant) of making or
            maintaining their Loans or Equity Amounts (or its Loan or Equity
            Amount) for such Interest Period;

then the Agent shall give notice thereof to the Lessee and the Participants by
telephone or telecopy as promptly as practicable thereafter and, until the Agent
notifies the Lessee and the Participants that the circumstances giving rise to
such notice no longer exist, (i) any Funding Request that requests the
conversion or continuation of an Advance with interest determined by reference
to the LIBO Rate (Reserve Adjusted) shall be ineffective, (ii) if any Funding
Request requests an Advance with interest determined by reference to the LIBO
Rate (Reserve Adjusted), such Advance shall be made as an Alternate Base Rate
Advance and (iii) any Funding Request by the Lessee for an Advance with interest
determined by reference to the LIBO Rate (Reserve Adjusted) shall be
ineffective; provided, however, that if the circumstances giving rise to such
notice do not affect all the Participants, then requests by the Lessee for an
Advance with interest determined by reference to the LIBO Rate (Reserve
Adjusted) may be made to Participants that are not affected thereby.

            (ii) Increased Costs.

                  (1) If any Change in Law shall:

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                        (a) impose, modify or deem applicable any reserve,
                  special deposit or similar requirement against assets of,
                  deposit with or for the account of, or credit extended by, any
                  Participant (except any such reserve requirement reflected in
                  the Adjusted LIBO Rate); or

                        (b) impose on any Participant or the London interbank
                  market any other condition affecting this Participation
                  Agreement or Advances made by such Participant under this
                  Participation Agreement

            and the result of any of the foregoing shall be to increase the cost
            to such Participant of making, funding or maintaining any such Loan
            or Equity Amount (or of maintaining its obligation to make any such
            Loan or Equity Amount) or to reduce the amount of any sum received
            or receivable by such Participant hereunder (whether of principal,
            interest, Equity Amount, Yield or otherwise), then the Lessee will
            pay to such Participant such additional amount or amounts as will
            compensate such Participant for such additional costs incurred or
            reduction suffered.

                  (2) If any Participant determines that any Change in Law
            regarding capital requirements has or would have the effect of
            reducing the rate of return on such Participant's capital or on the
            capital of such Participant's holding company, if any, as a
            consequence of this Agreement or the Loans or Equity Amounts made,
            funded or created by, such Participant, to a level below that which
            such Participant or such Participant's holding company could have
            achieved but for such Change in Law (taking into consideration such
            Participant's policies and the policies of such Participant's
            holding company with respect to capital adequacy), then from time to
            time the Lessee will pay to such Participant such additional amount
            or amounts as will compensate such Participant or such Participant's
            holding company for any such reduction suffered.

                  (3) A certificate of a Participant setting forth the amount or
            amounts necessary to compensate such Participant or its holding
            company, as the case may be, as specified in paragraph (1) or (2) of
            this Subsection shall be delivered to the Lessee and shall be
            conclusive absent manifest error. The Lessee shall pay such
            Participant the amount shown as due on any such certificate within
            10 days after receipt thereof.

            (iii) Break Funding Payments. In the event of (1) the payment of any
principal of any Loan or Equity Amount other than on the last day of an Interest
Period applicable thereto (including as result of an Event of Default), (2) the
conversion of any Loan or Equity Amount other than on the last day of the
Interest Period applicable thereto, (3) the failure to borrow, convert, continue
or prepay any Loan or Equity Amount on the date specified in any notice
delivered pursuant hereto (regardless of whether such notice is permitted to be
revocable and is revoked in accordance herewith), or (4) the assignment of any
Loan or Equity Amount other than on the last day of the Interest Period
applicable thereto as a result of a request by Lessee then, in any such event,
the Lessee shall compensate each Participant for the loss, costs and expense
attributable to such event, including, without limitation, Break Costs and any
costs associated

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with the termination by any Participant of any foreign currency exchange
arrangements. The loss to any Participant attributable to any such event shall
be deemed to include an amount determined by such Participant to be equal to the
excess, if any, of (i) the amount of interest that such Participant would pay
for a deposit equal to the principal amount of such Loan or Equity Amount for
the period from the date of such payment, conversion, failure or assignment to
the last day of the then current Interest Period for such Loan or Equity Amount
(or, in the case of a failure to borrow, convert or continue, the duration of
the Interest Period that would have resulted from such borrowing, conversion or
continuation) if the interest rate payable on such deposit were equal to the
Adjusted LIBO Rate for such Interest Period, over (ii) the amount of interest
that such Participant would earn on such principal amount for such period if
such Participant were to invest such principal amount for such period at the
interest rate that would be bid by such Participant (or an Affiliate of such
Participant) for dollar deposits from other banks in an eurodollar market at the
commencement of such period. A certificate of any Participant setting forth any
amount or amounts that such Participant is entitled to receive pursuant to this
Subsection shall be delivered to the Lessee and shall be conclusive absent
manifest error. The Lessee shall pay such Participant the amount shown as due on
any such certificate within 10 days after receipt thereof.

            (iv) If it becomes illegal for any Participant to continue its
participation in the transaction contemplated by the Operative Documents (the
"Overall Transaction"), the Participant shall give notice promptly to the Agent,
Owner Trustee, each other Participant and the Lessee (including in such notice
reasonable details as to the basis of such illegality). Each Participant agrees
for the benefit of the Lessee and (in the case of a Lender) the Certificate
Holders, if so required by the Lessee, to consult in good faith with the Lessee
and such other parties and to use its reasonable best efforts to avoid such
illegality (including by assigning its rights hereunder and under the other
Operative Documents to an Affiliate or branch of the Participant, and providing
that such Affiliate or branch shall assume its obligations hereunder and
thereunder); provided, however, that such Participant shall not in this
connection be obligated to take any action which would be materially prejudicial
to the operations of the Participant; provided further, however, that the
portion of the Loan or Equity Amount held by such Participant shall be prepaid
on or prior to the date (the "Illegality Prepayment Date") which is the earlier
of the 180th day subsequent to the giving by such Participant of such notice and
the date upon which the Participant is obligated under Applicable Law to
terminate its participation in the Overall Transaction if such illegality has
not been avoided or the portion of the Loan or Equity Amount held by such
Participant has not been prepaid prior to the Illegality Prepayment Date.

      (f) Notice of Yield and Interest. The Agent shall deliver to the Lessee
from time to time written notice of the amount of Basic Rent and the due date
therefor (i) promptly after the commencement of each Interest Period
constituting an Odd LIBOR Period or a one-month LIBOR period, and (ii) promptly
after determination of interest and Yield determined by reference to the
Alternate Base Rate.

      (g) Collateralized Margin. The Lessee shall be entitled to have the
applicable margin for interest accruing on the Property Balance reduced to the
Collateralized Applicable Margin so long as (i) Lessee shall have pledged to the
Agent Eligible Collateral as security for Lessee's obligations under the
Operative Documents, and (ii) such Eligible Collateral shall be

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subject to the Pledge Agreement and held by not more than three (3) Securities
Intermediaries (Lessee having a right to change or substitute same) reasonably
acceptable to the Agent pursuant to a Control Agreement. Upon not less than
seven (7) Business Days' notice to the Agent, so long as no Default has occurred
and is continuing, and no Event of Loss, Casualty or Condemnation has occurred,
Lessee may elect to change the composition of the Eligible Collateral and cause
substitute Eligible Collateral to become subject to the Pledge Agreement and
held by a Securities Intermediary pursuant to a Control Agreement. So long as
the minimum Eligible Collateral remains on deposit in the securities accounts
established under the Control Agreements, and so long as no Default has occurred
and is continuing, and no Event of Loss, Casualty or Condemnation has occurred,
the Agent shall permit Lessee to withdraw from such securities account any
accretions (including interest and dividends) to the property held therein.

      The Lessee may elect to switch between the Collateralized Applicable
Margin and the uncollateralized Applicable Margin not more than once in any
Fiscal Quarter. Each determination of an interest rate or yield rate by the
Agent pursuant to any provision of the Operative Documents shall be conclusive
and binding on the Lessor and each Participant in the absence of manifest error.
The Agent shall, at the request of the Lessor, deliver to the Lessor a statement
showing the quotations used by the Agent in determining any interest rate or
yield rate pursuant to the Operative Documents.

SECTION 5. CERTAIN INTENTIONS OF THE PARTIES; DISTRIBUTIONS.

      (a) Nature of Transaction. The parties hereto intend that (1) for
financial accounting purposes with respect to the Lessee, the Lessor will be
treated as the owner or ground lessee and the lessor of the Property, including
the Equipment, and the Lessee will be treated as the lessee of the Property,
including the Equipment, and (2) for all other purposes, including Federal and
all state and local income tax purposes, state real estate law, bankruptcy and
Environmental Law purposes, (x) the Master Lease will be treated as a financing
arrangement, (y) the Participants will be deemed lenders making loans to the
Lessee in an amount equal to the sum of the Equity Amounts and the outstanding
principal amount of the Loans, which loans are secured by the Property, and (z)
the Lessee will be treated as the owner of the Property and will be entitled to
all tax benefits ordinarily available to an owner of property like the Property
for such tax purposes. Nevertheless, the Lessee acknowledges and agrees that
neither the Lessor nor any of the Participants has made any representations or
warranties to the Lessee concerning the tax, accounting or legal characteristics
of the Operative Documents and that the Lessee has obtained and relied upon such
tax, accounting and legal advice concerning the Operative Documents as it deems
appropriate.

            (i) Specifically, without limiting the generality of clause (i), the
parties hereto intend and agree that in the event of any insolvency or
receivership proceedings or a petition under the United States bankruptcy laws
or any other applicable insolvency laws or statute of the United States of
America or any State or Commonwealth thereof affecting the Lessee, the Lessor or
the Participants or any collection actions, the transactions evidenced by the
Operative Documents are loans made to the Lessee by the Participants in each
case as unrelated third party lenders.

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      (b) Amounts Due Under Master Lease. Anything else herein or elsewhere to
the contrary notwithstanding, it is the intention of the Lessee, the Certificate
Holders, the Owner Trustee, the Lessor and the Lenders that: (1) the amount and
timing of installments of Basic Rent due and payable from time to time from the
Lessee under the Master Lease shall be equal to the aggregate payments due and
payable as interest on the Loans and Yield on the Equity Amounts on each Payment
Date; (2) if the Lessee becomes obligated or otherwise elects to purchase the
Property under the Master Lease, the Loans, the Equity Amounts, all interest,
Yield and Commitment Fees thereon and all other obligations of the Lessee owing
to the Lessor, the Certificate Holders, the Owner Trustee and the Lenders shall
be paid in full by the Lessee; and if the Lessee becomes obligated to purchase
any Site under Section 11 of the Master Lease, or if the Lessee elects to
purchase any Sites under Section 6(e) of the Master Lease, the applicable
portions of the Loans and the Equity Amounts, all interest, Yield and Commitment
Fees thereon and all other obligations of the Lessee owing to the Lessor, the
Certificate Holders, the Owner Trustee and the Lenders related to such Site or
Sites, as applicable, shall be paid in full by the Lessee in accordance with the
Master Lease; (3) if the Lessee properly elects the Sale Option with respect to
the Property, the Lessee shall only be required to pay to the Certificate
Holders the proceeds of the sale of the Property, the Applicable Percentage
Amount with respect to the Property and any amounts due pursuant to Sections 13
and 14 hereof and Section 6(d) and Section 6(i) of the Master Lease (which
aggregate amounts may be less than the Property Balance), together with any
accrued Basic Rent and Supplemental Rent then due and owing; and (4) upon an
Event of Default resulting in an acceleration of the Lessee's obligation to
purchase the Property under the Master Lease, the amounts then due and payable
by the Lessee under the Master Lease shall include all amounts necessary to pay
in full the Property Balance, plus all other amounts then due from the Lessee to
the Participants under the Operative Documents.

      (c) Agreement to Pay Amounts Due With Respect to Tranche A Loans. In
furtherance of the intent of the parties as set forth in Sections 5(a) and 5(b)
above and as set forth in Section 20(u) of the Master Lease, the Lessee hereby
absolutely, unconditionally and irrevocably (1) agrees to pay in full when due
(after giving effect to any applicable notice and grace period), whether at
stated maturity, by required prepayment, declaration, acceleration, demand or
otherwise, all amounts owing by the Lessor to the Lenders with respect to the
Tranche A Loans and the portion of the Notes evidencing such Tranche A Loans
(including all such amounts which would become due but for the operation of the
automatic stay under Section 362(a) of the United States Bankruptcy Code, 11
U.S.C. ss.362(a), and the operation of Sections 502(b) and 506(b) of the United
States Bankruptcy Code, 11 U.S.C. ss.502(b) and ss.506(b)), and (2) indemnifies
and holds harmless the Lessor, the Agent and each Tranche A Lender for any and
all costs and expenses (including reasonable attorneys' fees) incurred by the
Lessor, the Agent or such Tranche A Lender in enforcing any rights under this
Section 5(c).

      (d) Distribution.

            (i) Subject to Section 5(d)(vii)(4), each payment of Basic Rent (and
any payment of interest on overdue installments of Basic Rent) received by the
Agent shall be distributed by the Agent to the Participants, pro rata in
accordance with, and for application to, the Tranche A Lender Basic Rent,
Tranche B Lender Basic Rent and Equity Basic Rent then due, as well as any
overdue interest due to each such Participant (to the extent permitted by
Applicable Law).

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            (ii) Subject to Section 5(d)(vii)(4), any payment received by the
Lessor or the Agent as a result of:

                  (1) the purchase of the Property in connection with the
            Lessee's exercise of its option under Section 6(e) of the Master
            Lease, or

                  (2) the Lessee's compliance with its obligation to purchase
            (or cause its designee to purchase) the Property in accordance with
            Sections 6(b), 6(e), 6(f) and 6(i) of the Master Lease, or

                  (3) the payment of the Property Balance or portion thereof in
            accordance with Section 6(e) or Section 11 of the Master Lease, and
            any proceeds from any partial prepayments pursuant to Section 6(e)
            of the Master Lease, or

                  (4) the Lessee failing to fulfill one or more of the
            conditions to the exercise of the Sale Option pursuant to Section
            6(d) of the Master Lease and the Lessor's receipt of the Property
            Balance from the Lessee pursuant to Section 6(d)(3) of the Master
            Lease,

shall be promptly remitted by the Lessor to the Agent (if received by the
Lessor) and in each case, shall be distributed by the Agent to pay in full the
Participant Balance of each Participant.

            (iii) The payment by the Lessee of the Applicable Percentage Amount
and all Supplemental Rent due in accordance with Section 6(d)(3) of the Master
Lease upon the Lessee's exercise of the Sale Option and the payment by the
Lessee of the Construction Failure Payment in accordance with Section 6(h) of
the Master Lease shall be promptly remitted by the Lessor (if received by the
Lessor) to the Agent, and shall be distributed by the Agent in the following
amounts and order of priority:

                  first, so much of such payments or amounts as shall constitute
            Supplemental Rent, to the Persons entitled thereto in accordance
            with Section 5(d)(v); and

                  second, to the Tranche A Lenders for application to pay in
            full the Tranche A Loan Balance of each Tranche A Lender, and in the
            case where the amount so distributed shall be insufficient to pay in
            full as aforesaid, then pro rata among the Tranche A Lenders without
            priority of one Tranche A Lender over the other in the proportion
            that each such Participant's Tranche A Loan Balance bears to the
            aggregate Tranche A Loan Balances of all Tranche A Lenders, and

                  third, to the Tranche B Lenders for application to pay in full
            the Tranche B Loan Balance of each Tranche B Lender, and in the case
            where the amount so distributed shall be insufficient to pay in full
            as aforesaid, then pro rata among the Tranche B Lenders without
            priority of one Tranche B Lender over the other in the proportion
            that each such Participant's Tranche B Loan Balance bears to the
            aggregate Tranche B Loan Balances of all Tranche B Lenders, and

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                  fourth, to the Certificate Holders, personally, for
            application to pay in full the Equity Balance.

            (iv) Any payments received as proceeds from the sale of the Property
sold pursuant to the Lessee's exercise of the Sale Option pursuant to Section
6(c) of the Master Lease shall be promptly remitted by the Lessor (if received
by the Lessor) to the Agent, and shall be distributed by the Agent in the funds
so received in the following order of priority:

                  first, to the Tranche B Lenders for application to pay in full
            the Tranche B Loan Balance of each Tranche B Lender, and in the case
            where the amount so distributed shall be insufficient to pay in full
            as aforesaid, then pro rata among the Tranche B Lenders without
            priority of one Tranche B Lender over the other in the proportion
            that each such Participant's Tranche B Loan Balance bears to the
            aggregate Tranche B Loan Balances of all Tranche B Lenders, and

                  second, to the Tranche A Lenders for application to pay in
            full the Tranche A Loan Balance of each Tranche A Lender, and in the
            case where the amount so distributed shall be insufficient to pay in
            full as aforesaid, then pro rata among the Tranche A Lenders without
            priority of one Tranche A Lender over the other in the proportion
            that each such Participant's Tranche A Loan Balance bears to the
            aggregate Tranche A Loan Balances of all Tranche A Lenders, and

                  third, to the Certificate Holders, personally, for application
            to pay in full the Equity Balance, and

                  fourth, the balance, if any, shall be promptly distributed to,
            or as directed by, the Lessee.

            (v) All payments of Supplemental Rent received by the Lessor shall
promptly be remitted to the Agent. All payments of Supplemental Rent received by
the Agent (excluding any amounts payable pursuant to the preceding provisions of
this Section 5(d), other than clause "first" of Section 5(d)(iii)) shall be
distributed promptly by the Agent upon receipt thereof to the Persons entitled
thereto pursuant to the Operative Documents.

            (vi) Notwithstanding any other provision of this Section 5(d), any
Excepted Payment received at any time by the Lessor or the Agent shall be
promptly remitted by the Lessor (if received by the Lessor) to the Agent, and
shall be distributed by the Agent to the Person entitled to receive such
Excepted Payment pursuant to the Operative Documents.

            (vii) (1) Except as otherwise provided in clause (vii)(2), all
amounts received by the Lessor or the Agent in connection with any sale of all
or any part of the Property after the occurrence of a Lease Event of Default
shall be promptly remitted by the Lessor (if received by the Lessor) to the
Agent, and shall be distributed by the Agent in the following order of priority:

                  first, so much of such payments or amounts as shall be
            required to pay the then existing or prior Participants, the Lessor
            and Wilmington Trust Company the amounts payable to them pursuant to
            any expense reimbursement or indemnification provisions of the
            Operative Documents shall be distributed to

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            each such Person without priority of one over the other in
            accordance with the amount of such payment or payments payable to
            each such Person;

                  second, to the Tranche B Lenders for application to pay in
            full the Tranche B Loan Balance of each Tranche B Lender, and in the
            case where the amounts so distributed shall be insufficient to pay
            in full as aforesaid, then pro rata among the Tranche B Lenders
            without priority of one Tranche B Lender over the other in the
            proportion that each such Participant's Tranche B Loan Balance bears
            to the aggregate Tranche B Loan Balances of all Tranche B Lenders;

                  third, to the Tranche A Lenders for application to pay in full
            the Tranche A Loan Balance of each Tranche A Lender, and in the case
            where the amounts so distributed shall be insufficient to pay in
            full as aforesaid, then pro rata among the Tranche A Lenders without
            priority of one Tranche A Lender over the other in the proportion
            that each such Participant's Tranche A Loan Balance bears to the
            aggregate Tranche A Loan Balances of all Tranche A Lenders;

                  fourth, to the Certificate Holders for application to pay in
            full the Equity Balance; and

                  fifth, the balance, if any, of such payment or amounts
            remaining thereafter shall be promptly distributed to, or as
            directed by, the Lessee.

                  (2) All payments received and amounts realized by the Lessor
            or the Agent in connection with any Casualty or Condemnation after
            the occurrence of a Lease Event of Default shall be promptly
            remitted by the Lessor (if received by the Lessor) to the Agent and
            shall be distributed by the Agent in accordance with Section
            5(d)(ix).

                  (3) All payments received and amounts realized (other than
            payments or amounts described in clause (I) or (ii) above) by the
            Lessor or the Agent after the occurrence of a Lease Event of Default
            shall be promptly remitted by the Lessor (if received by the Lessor)
            to the Agent and shall be distributed by the Agent in the following
            order of priority:

                  first, so much of such payments or amounts as shall be
            required to pay the then existing or prior Participants, the Lessor
            and Wilmington Trust Company the amounts payable to them pursuant to
            any expense reimbursement or indemnification provisions of the
            Operative Documents shall be distributed to each such Participant
            without priority of one over the other in accordance with the amount
            of such payment or payments payable to each such Person;

                  second, to the Participants, the Lessor and Wilmington Trust
            Company, pro rata in accordance with, and for application to, the
            Participant Balance of each Participant; and

                  third, after payment in full of the Participant Balances and
            all other amounts due and owing, the balance, if any, of such
            payment or amounts

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            remaining thereafter shall be promptly distributed to, or as
            directed by, the Lessee.

                  (4) During the occurrence and continuance of a Lease Event of
            Default, all amounts (other than Excepted Payments) received or
            realized by the Lessor or the Agent shall be promptly remitted by
            the Lessor (if received by the Lessor) to the Agent and all such
            amounts otherwise distributable by the Agent pursuant to Sections
            5(d)(i), 5(d)(ii) and 5(d)(ix) shall be distributed by the Agent as
            provided for in clauses (1), (2) and (3) above.

            (viii) (1) Subject to Sections 5(d)(viii)(2) and 5(d)(viii)(3), any
payment received by the Lessor or the Agent for which no provision as to the
application thereof is made in the Operative Documents or elsewhere in this
Section 5(d), including without limitation amounts received pursuant to Section
6(i) of the Master Lease, shall be promptly remitted by the Lessor (if received
by the Lessor) to the Agent and shall be distributed by the Agent pro rata among
the Participants, without priority of one over the other, in the proportion that
the Participant Balance of each bears to the aggregate of all the Participant
Balances.

                  (2) Except as otherwise provided in Sections 5(d)(i), 5(d)(ii)
            and 5(d)(vii), all payments received and amounts realized by the
            Lessor or the Agent under the Master Lease or otherwise with respect
            to the Property, or any proceeds thereof to the extent received or
            realized at any time after an indefeasible payment in full of the
            Participant Balances of all of the Participants and any other
            amounts due and owing to the Participants, the Lessor or Wilmington
            Trust Company, shall be promptly remitted by the Lessor (if received
            by the Lessor) to the Agent and shall be distributed forthwith by
            the Agent in the order of priority set forth in Section
            5(d)(vii)(3), except that such payment shall be distributed omitting
            clause "second" of such Section 5(d)(vii)(3).

                  (3) Any payment received by the Lessor or the Agent for which
            provision as to the application thereof is made in an Operative
            Document but not elsewhere in this Section 5(d) shall be promptly
            remitted by the Lessor (if received by the Lessor) to the Agent and
            shall be distributed forthwith by the Agent to the Person and for
            the purpose for which such payment was made in accordance with the
            terms of such Operative Document.

            (ix) Subject to Section 5(d)(vii)(4), any amounts payable to the
Lessor or the Agent as a result of a Casualty or Condemnation pursuant to
Section 11 of the Master Lease shall be promptly remitted by the Lessor (if
received by the Lessor) to the Agent and shall be distributed by the Agent as
follows:

                  (1) all amounts that are to be applied to the purchase price
            of the Property in accordance with Section 11 and Section 6 of the
            Master Lease shall be distributed by the Agent in accordance with
            Section 5(d)(ii).

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                  (2) all amounts payable to the Lessee for the repair of damage
            caused by such Casualty or Condemnation in accordance with Section
            11(b) and (e) of the Master Lease shall be distributed to, or as
            directed by, the Lessee.

            (x) To the extent any payment made to any Participant is
insufficient to pay in full the Participant Balance of such Participant, then
each such payment shall first be applied to accrued interest or Yield and then
to principal or the Equity Amounts, as applicable.

SECTION 6. REPRESENTATIONS, WARRANTIES AND AGREEMENTS OF THE PARTICIPANTS.

      (a) Representations and Warranties. Each Participant hereby represents and
warrants as to itself to the other Participants and the Lessee that:

            (i) Status; Due Organization. It (i) is either a corporation duly
organized and validly existing in good standing under the laws of the State of
Delaware, or a commercial bank, branch or agency of a foreign bank or other
similar financial institution, or an Affiliate thereof and (ii) has all
requisite power and authority to enter into, and perform its obligations under,
each of the Operative Documents to which it is or will become a party.

            (ii) Due Authorization; Enforceability. Each of the Operative
Documents to which it is or will become a party has been duly authorized by all
appropriate corporate action, and has been or will be executed and delivered by
it, and, assuming due authorization, execution and delivery by the other parties
thereto, constitutes or will constitute upon the due execution thereof the
Participant's legal, valid and binding obligation, enforceable against it in
accordance with its terms, except as enforceability thereof may be limited by
(i) bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization, moratorium or other similar laws
affecting enforcement of creditors' rights generally and (ii) general principles
of equity (regardless of whether such enforceability is considered in a
proceeding in equity or at law).

            (iii) ERISA. It is not and will not be making its Loans or funding
Equity amounts hereunder, and is not performing its obligations under the
Operative Documents with the assets of any "employee benefit plan" (as defined
in Section 3(3) of ERISA) which is subject to Title I of ERISA or "plan" (as
defined in Section 4975(e)(1) of the code).

            (iv) Brokers' Fees. It has not authorized or employed any Person to
act as agent, broker, finder, financial advisor or otherwise in connection with
the transactions contemplated by the Operative Documents other than the Agent
and its Affiliates and Lund Financial.

      (b) Additional Representations and Warranties. Each Certificate Holder
additionally represents, warrants and agrees:

            (i) Acquisition for Investment. It is acquiring its interest in the
Trust Estate, including the trust certificates, for its own account for
investment and not with a view to, or for sale in connection with, any
distribution thereof, but subject, nevertheless, to any requirement of law that
the disposition of its property shall at all times be within its control.

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            (ii) No Offering. Neither such Certificate Holder nor anyone acting
on its behalf has offered, directly or indirectly, any interest in the Trust
Estate, including the trust certificates, for sale to, or solicited any offer to
acquire any of the same from, anyone (it being understood that neither the
Lessee nor any other Person has been authorized to act on behalf of any
Certificate Holder in connection with any such offer or solicitation).

            (iii) Lessor Liens. The Sites are free of Lessor Liens attributable
to such Certificate Holder.

            (iv) Net Worth. Such Certificate Holder has a net worth of at least
four (4) times the Certificate Holder's Commitment;

            (v) Investment Company. Such Certificate Holder is not an
"investment company" or a company "controlled" by an "investment company" within
the meaning of the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended.

            (vi) Lessor Liens. It will not directly or indirectly create, incur,
assume or suffer to exist any Lessor Liens attributable to it on the Trust
Estate. It will, at its own cost and expense, promptly take such action as may
be necessary to discharge fully all such Lessor Liens on the Trust Estate, other
than Lessor Liens being contested by a Permitted Contest. It shall make
restitution to the Trust Estate for any diminution in the value of the Trust
Estate as a result of its failure to discharge any such Lessor Liens. It shall
promptly, and in no event later than thirty days after its Certificate Holder
Officer shall have obtained actual knowledge of the attachment of any Lessor
Lien for which it is responsible, notify the Lessee and the Owner Trustee of the
attachment of such Lessor Lien and the particulars thereof. The term
"Certificate Holder Officer" shall mean an officer of each Certificate Holder
having responsibility for the administration of such Certificate Holder's
interest in the Operative Documents.

      (c) Covenants of the Participants. Each of the Participants hereby agrees
as follows so long as this Participation Agreement is in effect:

                  (1) No Creation of Lessor Liens. It will not create, incur,
            assume or suffer to exist any Lessor Lien attributable to such
            Participant upon the Master Lease or any of the Sites (other than as
            contemplated by any of the Operative Documents); and

                  (2) Removal of Lessor Liens. It will remove any Lessor Lien
            created or incurred by it and remove any Lessor Lien attributable to
            it assumed or suffered to exist by it upon the Master Lease or any
            of the Sites (other than the Lender Mortgage and such other Liens as
            are contemplated by any of the Operative Documents); provided,
            however, that any action taken pursuant to this clause (2) shall not
            limit the Lessee's rights or remedies under any of the Operative
            Documents.

      (d) Covenants of the Agent. The Agent hereby agrees that so long as this
Participation Agreement is in effect:

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                  (1) upon repayment in full of all Loans, the Agent shall
            execute and deliver to the Lessee a release of the Lender Mortgage,
            releases of the Construction Agency Agreement Assignment and
            Assignment of Leases and Rents, and releases of all other Liens
            created by the Operative Documents, and termination statements for
            any UCC Financing Statements relating to the Sites which are then of
            record naming the Agent as secured party or assignee thereof; and

                  (2) from time to time, the Agent will allocate all Advances to
            the applicable Site or Sites, with Site Costs related to a specific
            Site being allocated to such Site, and Site Costs not related to a
            specific Site (such as Transaction Expenses related to the
            Documentation Date) being allocated and reallocated by the Agent
            among the Sites from time to time consistently with the allocation
            thereof by the Lessee pursuant to Section 3(d).

      (e) Covenants of the Certificate Holders. Each Certificate Holder hereby
agrees that so long as this Participation Agreement is in effect until
expiration or earlier termination of the Master Lease, it will not, and will not
cause or direct the Owner Trustee to, terminate the Trust Agreement without the
prior written consent of the Lessee.

SECTION 7. REPRESENTATIONS, WARRANTIES AND AGREEMENTS OF WILMINGTON TRUST
           COMPANY AND OWNER TRUSTEE.

      (a) Wilmington Trust Company Representations and Warranties. Wilmington
Trust Company hereby represents and warrants in its individual capacity that:

                  (1) Due Organization. Wilmington Trust Company (i) is a
            Delaware banking corporation duly organized and validly existing in
            good standing under the laws of the State of Delaware, and (ii) has
            the power and authority to enter into and perform its obligations
            under the Trust Agreement and to serve as trustee thereunder.

                  (2) Trust Agreement; Participation Agreement. Each of the
            Trust Agreement and this Participation Agreement (insofar as
            Wilmington Trust Company is a party thereto and hereto) has been
            duly executed and delivered by Wilmington Trust Company and,
            assuming due authorization, execution and delivery by the other
            parties thereto, the Trust Agreement and this Participation
            Agreement constitute Wilmington Trust Company's legal, valid and
            binding obligations, enforceable against it in accordance with their
            respective terms, except as enforceability thereof may be limited by
            (i) bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization, moratorium or other
            similar laws affecting enforcement of creditors' rights generally
            and (ii) general principles of equity (regardless of whether such
            enforceability is considered in a proceeding in equity or at law).

                  (3) Due Authorization. Each Operative Document to which
            Wilmington Trust Company is or will become a party has been duly
            authorized, and has been or will be duly executed and delivered by
            Wilmington Trust Company.

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                  (4) No Violation. Assuming due authorization, execution and
            delivery of the Trust Agreement by the Certificate Holders, the
            execution and delivery by either the Owner Trustee or Wilmington
            Trust Company, of each Operative Document to which the Owner Trustee
            or Wilmington Trust Company, as the case may be, is or will become a
            party, are not, and the performance by the Owner Trustee or
            Wilmington Trust Company, as the case may be, of their obligations
            under each, is not, and will not be, inconsistent with the Organic
            Documents of Wilmington Trust Company and, taking into account the
            responsibilities of the Owner Trustee, do not and will not
            contravene the provisions of Applicable Law of the United States or
            Delaware (including any rules and regulations of governmental
            agencies and authorities thereto and therein and any judgment or
            order applicable to Wilmington Trust Company) governing the banking
            and trust powers of Wilmington Trust Company or result in any
            violation of or conflict with or constitute a default under, or
            subject the Trust Estate or any of the Sites to any Lien of, any
            indenture, mortgage or other agreement or instrument to which
            Wilmington Trust Company is a party or by which Wilmington Trust
            Company or its properties are bound, or, taking into account the
            responsibilities of the Owner Trustee, require the consent or
            approval of, the giving of notice to, the registration with or the
            taking of any action in respect of or by, any Federal or state
            agency, authority or Person governing the banking and trust powers
            of Wilmington Trust Company or any other local Governmental
            Authority of the State of Delaware, except such as have been
            obtained, given or accomplished.

                  (5) No Litigation. There is no action, suit, investigation or
            proceeding by or before any court, arbitrator, administrative agency
            or other Governmental Authority pending or, to the knowledge of
            Wilmington Trust Company, threatened against or affecting Wilmington
            Trust Company or any of its properties which (i) involves any of the
            transactions contemplated hereunder or by any of the Operative
            Documents or (ii) affects its ability to perform its respective
            obligations under the Operative Documents to which it is or will
            become a party.

                  (6) Lessor Liens. There are no Lessor Liens arising by,
            through or under Wilmington Trust Company, other than relating to or
            in connection with the Operative Documents.

                  (7) Securities. Wilmington Trust Company has not offered
            directly or indirectly any interests in the Trust Estate or any part
            thereof, including the trust certificates, for issue or sale to, or
            solicited any offer to acquire any of the same from, anyone, other
            than as contemplated in the Operative Documents.

      (b) Wilmington Trust Company Agreements. Wilmington Trust Company hereby
agrees that:

                  (1) Lessor Liens. Wilmington Trust Company will not directly
            or indirectly create, incur, assume or suffer to exist any Lessor
            Liens attributable to it on the Trust Estate not resulting from or
            related to the transactions

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            contemplated by the Operative Documents.. Wilmington Trust Company
            will, at its own cost and expense, promptly take such action as may
            be necessary to discharge duly all such Lessor Liens on any part of
            the Trust Estate attributable to Wilmington Trust Company other than
            Lessor Liens being contested by a Permitted Contest. Wilmington
            Trust Company shall make restitution to the Trust Estate for any
            diminution in the value of the Trust Estate as a result of its
            failure to discharge any such Lessor Liens attributable to
            Wilmington Trust Company. It shall promptly, and in no event later
            than thirty (30) days after an Owner Trustee Officer shall have
            obtained actual knowledge of the attachment of any such Lessor Lien
            for which it is responsible, notify the Lessee and the Certificate
            Holders of the attachment of such Lien and the particulars thereof.
            The term "Owner Trustee Officer" shall mean an officer of the Owner
            Trustee having responsibility for the administration of Wilmington
            Trust Company's and the Owner Trustee's interest in the Operative
            Documents.

                  (2) No Issuance. Wilmington Trust Company agrees that neither
            Wilmington Trust Company nor anyone acting on its behalf has offered
            or will offer any interests in the Trust Estate or any part thereof
            (including the trust certificates) or any securities similar thereto
            for issue or sale to, or has solicited or will solicit any offer to
            acquire any of the same from, anyone so as to bring the issuance and
            sale of the interests in the Trust Estate (including the trust
            certificates) within the provisions of Section 5 of the Securities
            Act or any similar provisions under any applicable state "blue sky"
            or similar state securities laws.

      (c) Owner Trustee and Trust Representations and Warranties. The Owner
Trustee and the Trust hereby represent and warrant on the date hereof that:

                  (1) Due Organization. Assuming the due authorization,
            execution and delivery of the Trust Agreement by the Certificate
            Holders, the Owner Trustee has the power and authority under the
            Trust Agreement to enter into and perform its obligations under each
            Operative Document to which the Owner Trustee is or will become a
            party

                  (2) Due Authorization; Enforceability. Assuming due
            authorization, execution and delivery of the Trust Agreement by the
            Participants and Wilmington Trust Company, each Operative Document
            (other than the Trust Agreement) to which the Trust or the Owner
            Trustee is or will become a party constitutes or will constitute
            upon the due execution thereof a legal, valid and binding obligation
            of the Owner Trustee and the Trust, enforceable against the Owner
            Trustee and the Trust, in accordance with its terms, except as
            enforceability thereof may be limited by (i) bankruptcy, insolvency,
            reorganization, moratorium or other similar laws affecting
            enforcement of creditors' rights generally and (ii) general
            principles of equity (regardless of whether such enforceability is
            considered in a proceeding in equity or at law).

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                  (3) No Liens. On each Site Acquisition Date, the Sites to be
            leased on such Site Acquisition Date shall be free and clear of
            Lessor Liens arising by, through or under the Owner Trustee (other
            than Permitted Liens).

                  (4) Chief Executive Office. The principal place of business
            and chief executive office (as such term is used in Article 9 of the
            Uniform Commercial Code) of Owner Trustee and the Trust is located
            at Rodney Square North, 1100 North Market Street, Wilmington,
            Delaware 19890.

                  (5) Due Organization. The Trust has been duly formed and is
            validly existing and in good standing as a statutory business trust
            under the laws of the State of Delaware, and has the power and
            authority to enter into and perform its obligations under each of
            the Operative Documents, including this Participation Agreement, the
            Master Lease and the Lease Supplements to which it is or is to
            become a party.

                  (6) Assignment. It has not assigned or transferred any of its
            right, title or interest in or under the Master Lease or the
            Construction Agency Agreement except in accordance with the
            Operative Documents.

                  (7) Use of Proceeds. The proceeds of the Loans and the Equity
            Amounts shall be applied by the Trust in its capacity as the Lessor
            solely in accordance with the provisions of the Operative Documents.

                  (8) Securities Act. Neither the Trust in its capacity as the
            Lessor nor any Person authorized by the Trust to act on its behalf
            has offered or sold any interest in the Notes or Equity Amounts, or
            in any similar security relating to the Sites, or in any security
            the offering of which for the purposes of the Securities Act would
            be deemed to be part of the same offering as the offering of the
            aforementioned securities to, or solicited any offer to acquire any
            of the same from, any Person other than, in the case of the Notes,
            the Lenders, and neither the Trust in its capacity as the Lessor nor
            any Person authorized by the Trust to act on its behalf will take
            any action which would subject the issuance or sale of any interest
            in the Notes or Equity Amounts to the provisions of Section 5 of the
            Securities Act.

                  (9) Federal Reserve Regulations. The Trust is not engaged
            principally in, and does not have as one of its important
            activities, the business of extending credit for the purpose of
            purchasing or carrying any margin stock (within the meaning of
            Regulation U of the F.R.S. Board), and no part of the proceeds of
            the Loans or the Equity Amounts will be used by it to purchase or
            carry any margin stock or to extend credit to others for the purpose
            of purchasing or carrying any such margin stock or for any purpose
            that violates, or is inconsistent with, the provisions of Regulation
            T, U or X of the F.R.S. Board. Terms for which meanings are provided
            in F.R.S. Board Regulation T, U or X or any regulations substituted
            therefor, as from time to time in effect, are used in this clause
            (9) with such meanings.

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                  (10) Investment Company Act. The Trust is not an "investment
            company" or a company controlled by an "investment company" within
            the meaning of the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended.

      (d) Owner Trustee and Trust Agreements. Owner Trustee and the Trust agree
that:

                  (1) Lessor Liens. The Owner Trustee and the Trust will not
            directly or indirectly create, incur, assume or suffer to exist any
            Lessor Liens arising by, through or under it on the Trust Estate.
            The Owner Trustee shall, at the cost and expense of the Trust
            Estate, promptly take such action as may be necessary to discharge
            duly all Lessor Liens attributable to it on any part of the Trust
            Estate, other than Lessor Liens being contested by a Permitted
            Contest. The Owner Trustee shall make restitution to the Trust
            Estate for any diminution in the value of the Trust Estate as a
            result of its failure to discharge any Lessor Liens attributable to
            it.

                  (2) Notices. In the event any claim with respect to any
            liabilities is filed against the Owner Trustee or the Trust, the
            Owner Trustee shall promptly notify the Certificate Holders and the
            Lessee thereof.

                  (3) Title. On the Documentation Date and each Site Acquisition
            Date the Trust will take whatever interest in the Trust Estate and
            whatever rights to and interests in the Master Lease and the Lease
            Supplements as were granted or conveyed to it, free and clear of any
            Lessor Liens attributable to it.

                  (4) Business of Owner Trustee and Trust. The business of the
            Owner Trustee and the Trust is and will continue to be restricted
            (until the expiration or earlier termination of the Master Lease
            with respect to a Site) to the holding of the Sites and the leasing
            of such pursuant to the Operative Documents and it will not engage,
            and it has not engaged, in any other business transaction except for
            administration of the Trust Estate (including any assignment for
            security of the Master Lease and any Sites) and for matters
            reasonably incidental to any of the foregoing.

                  (5) Trust Agreement. The Owner Trustee agrees that (unless a
            Lease Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing) until
            expiration or earlier termination of the Master Lease, it will not
            terminate the Trust Agreement without the prior written consent of
            the Lessee.

SECTION 8. REPRESENTATIONS, WARRANTIES AND AGREEMENTS OF LESSEE, CONSTRUCTION
           AGENT AND GUARANTOR.

      (a) General Representations and Warranties. The Lessee hereby represents
and warrants to each of the other parties hereto that:

                  (1) Due Organization. The Lessee and each of its Subsidiaries
            (i) is a corporation or other entity duly organized and validly
            existing in good standing

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            under the laws of the jurisdiction of its organization, (ii) has all
            requisite corporate or other power and authority and legal right to
            own, hold under lease and operate its properties and to carry on its
            business as now conducted and as presently proposed to be conducted
            and to enter into, and perform its obligations under, each of the
            Operative Documents to which it is or will become a party, and (iii)
            has duly qualified and is authorized to do business and is in good
            standing as a foreign corporation in the State of Illinois (in the
            case of the Lessee) and in each jurisdiction in which its business
            is conducted.

                  (2) Due Authorization; Enforceability. Each of the Operative
            Documents to which it is or will become a party has been or will be,
            when executed and delivered, duly authorized by all appropriate
            corporate action, and has been or will be executed and delivered by
            the Lessee and, assuming due authorization, execution and delivery
            by the other parties thereto, constitutes or will constitute upon
            the due execution thereof the Lessee's legal, valid and binding
            obligation, enforceable against it in accordance with its terms,
            except as enforceability thereof may be limited by (i) bankruptcy,
            insolvency, reorganization, moratorium or other similar laws
            affecting enforcement of creditors' rights generally and (ii)
            general principles of equity (regardless of whether such
            enforceability is considered in a proceeding in equity or at law).

                  (3) No Violation. The execution and delivery by the Lessee of
            each of the Operative Documents to which it is or will become a
            party are not, and the performance by the Lessee of its obligations
            under each will not be, inconsistent with its Organic Documents, do
            not and will not contravene any Applicable Law in any material
            respect and do not and will not contravene any provision of, or
            constitute a default under, any indenture, mortgage or other
            material contract or other instrument to which the Lessee is a party
            or by which it or its property is bound or require the consent or
            approval of, the giving of notice to, the registration with or the
            taking of any action in respect of or by, any Governmental Authority
            or other Person, except such as have been obtained, given or
            accomplished.

                  (4) Governmental Actions. The Lessee has made or will make all
            filings, recordings and registrations required by any Governmental
            Authority in connection with, and has obtained or will obtain, all
            Governmental Actions necessary or appropriate for the performance by
            the Lessee of the transactions contemplated hereby and by the other
            Operative Documents which are then or theretofore required by
            Applicable Law; the Lessee will make all filings, recordings and
            registrations required by any Governmental Authority in connection
            with, and will obtain, all material Governmental Actions necessary
            or appropriate for the performance by the Lessee of the transactions
            contemplated hereby and by the other Operative Documents not later
            than the dates required by Applicable Law.

                  (5) No Litigation. There is no litigation, arbitration,
            governmental investigation, proceeding or inquiry pending or, to the
            knowledge of any of their

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            officers, threatened against or affecting the Lessee or any of its
            Subsidiaries which could reasonably be expected to have a Material
            Adverse Effect or which seeks to prevent, enjoin or delay the making
            of any Funding hereunder. Other than any liability incident to any
            litigation, arbitration or proceeding which could not reasonably be
            expected to have a Material Adverse Effect, the Lessee has no
            material contingent obligations not provided for or disclosed in the
            financial statements referred to in Section 8(a)(18).

                  (6) Performance. Neither the Lessee nor any Subsidiary is in
            violation of any Applicable Law the violation of which is reasonably
            likely materially and adversely to affect the transactions
            contemplated by this Participation Agreement and the other Operative
            Documents or which would materially adversely affect Lessee's
            ability to perform its obligations under each of the Operative
            Documents or which otherwise could reasonably be expected to have a
            Material Adverse Effect.

                  (7) No Adverse Contracts or Applicable Law. Neither the Lessee
            nor any Subsidiary is a party to, or bound by, any contract or
            agreement or instrument, or subject to any charter or other
            corporate restriction or any Applicable Laws which materially and
            adversely affects the transactions contemplated by this
            Participation Agreement or the Operative Documents or which would
            materially adversely affect its ability to perform its obligations
            under each of the Operative Documents. Neither the Lessee nor any
            Subsidiary is in default in the performance, observance or
            fulfillment of any of the obligations, covenants or conditions
            contained in any agreement to which it is a party, which default
            could reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect. No
            obligation (including any guarantee or other contingent obligation)
            of the Lessee or of any Subsidiary or Affiliate of Lessee in respect
            of any Material Indebtedness now or hereafter outstanding is or has
            become due by its terms whether by acceleration or otherwise and has
            not been paid, extended or refunded.

                  (8) Taxes. The Lessee and its Subsidiaries have filed all
            United States federal income tax returns and all other material tax
            returns which are required to be filed and have paid all taxes due
            pursuant to said returns or pursuant to any assessment received by
            the Lessee or any of its Subsidiaries, except such taxes, if any, as
            are being contested in good faith and as to which adequate reserves
            have been provided in accordance with Agreement Accounting
            Principles and as to which no Lien exists. The United States income
            tax returns of the Lessee and its Subsidiaries have been audited by
            the Internal Revenue Service through the fiscal year ended December
            31, 1996. No tax liens have been filed and no claims are being
            asserted with respect to any such taxes as of the Documentation Date
            except as set forth in Schedule 8(a)(8). The charges, accruals and
            reserves on the books of the Lessee and its Subsidiaries in respect
            of any taxes or other governmental charges are adequate.

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                  (9) Investment Company Act. The Lessee is not an "investment
            company" or a company "controlled" by an "investment company",
            within the meaning of the Investment Company Act of 1940, as
            amended.

                  (10) Disclosure. Neither the financial statements referred to
            in Section 8(a)(18) nor any written statement furnished by or on
            behalf of Lessee in connection with the negotiation of the Master
            Lease or any other Operative Document contains any untrue statement
            of a material fact or omits a material fact necessary to make the
            statements contained therein or herein not misleading. There is no
            fact known to Lessee that has not been disclosed in writing to the
            other parties hereto that materially and adversely affects the
            ability of Lessee to perform its obligations under the Operative
            Documents.

                  (11) Holding Company. Lessee is not subject to regulation as a
            "holding company", an "affiliate" of a "holding company" or a
            "subsidiary company" of a "holding company", within the meaning of
            the Public Utility Holding Company Act of 1935, as amended.

                  (12) Prohibited Transactions. The execution and delivery by
            the Lessee of the Operative Documents to which it is or will become
            a party, will not involve any prohibited transaction within the
            meaning of ERISA or Section 4975 of the Code. The representation by
            the Lessee in this paragraph is made in reliance upon and subject to
            the accuracy of the representations of the Participants in Section
            6(a)(vi) hereof as to the source of funds for the Participant's
            Loans or Equity Amounts, as applicable.

                  (13) Patents and Trademarks. The Lessee owns or possesses or
            has the right to use all the patents, patent rights, trademarks,
            service marks, trade names, copyrights, licenses and similar rights
            necessary for the performance of its obligations under the Operative
            Documents, without any conflict known to it with the actual or
            asserted rights of others which materially and adversely affect the
            Lessee's ability to perform its obligations under the Operative
            Documents to which it is or will become a party. It is understood
            and agreed by the parties hereto that no interest in any trademark,
            trade name, copyright or service mark of the Lessee or an Affiliate
            thereof is being conveyed or transferred to the Owner Trustee or any
            other Person pursuant to any Operative Document.

                  (14) Regulatory Jurisdiction. None of the Participants or
            Owner Trustee or Wilmington Trust Company will become, (i) solely by
            reason of entering into this Participation Agreement or the other
            Operative Documents or (except with respect to the exercise by any
            Person of any control over a Site upon the occurrence of a Lease
            Event of Default or the expiration or other termination of the
            Master Lease) the consummation of any of the transactions
            contemplated hereby or thereby, subject to regulation by any
            Governmental Authority which regulates or otherwise has jurisdiction
            over any facilities for the retail distribution of petroleum
            products; or (ii) except for regulation the applicability of which
            depends on the existence of facts in addition to the ownership of
            the Sites upon

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            the exercise of remedies under the Master Lease or upon the
            expiration of the Master Lease, subject to ongoing regulation of its
            operations by any Governmental Authority.

                  (15) Private Offering. Neither the Lessee nor any Person
            authorized to act on Lessee's behalf has offered, either directly or
            indirectly, the Notes or any interest in the Trust Estate (including
            the trust certificates) for sale to, or solicited offers to buy any
            thereof from or otherwise approached or negotiated with respect
            thereto with any prospective purchaser, other than the Participants.
            The Lessee has not authorized or employed any Person to act as
            agent, broker, finder, financial advisor or otherwise in connection
            with the offering of interests in the Notes or the Trust Estate
            (including the trust certificates).

                  (16) No Defaults. No Lease Default or Lease Event of Default
            has occurred and is continuing.

                  (17) Fees. Neither the Lessee nor any Person authorized or
            employed by the Lessee as agent or otherwise has taken any action
            the effect of which would be to cause the Certificate Holders, the
            Trust Estate, or the Owner Trustee to be liable for any brokers',
            finders', agents', or advisors' fees or commissions or costs of any
            nature or kind claimed by or on behalf of brokers, finders, agents
            or advisors in respect of the transactions contemplated by the
            Operative Documents.

                  (18) Financial Statements; No Material Adverse Change. The
            September 30, 1999 consolidated financial statements of the Lessee
            and its Subsidiaries heretofore delivered to the Participants were
            prepared in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles
            in effect on the date such statements were prepared and fairly
            present the consolidated financial condition and operations of the
            Lessee and its Subsidiaries at such date and the consolidated of
            their operations for the period then ended.

                       Since the period ending September 30, 1999, there has
            been no change in the business, property, condition (financial or
            otherwise) or results of operations of the Lessee and its
            Subsidiaries which could reasonably be expected to have a Material
            Adverse Effect.

                  (19) Chief Executive Office. The principal place of business
            and chief executive office (as such term is used in Article 9 of the
            Uniform Commercial Code) of Lessee is located at 311 South Wacker
            Drive, Chicago, Illinois 60606.

                  (20) Use of Loans and Proceeds. No part of any Advance will be
            used directly or indirectly for the purpose of purchasing or
            carrying, or for payment in full or in part of indebtedness that was
            incurred for the purposes of purchasing or carrying, any margin
            stock as such term is defined in Regulation U of the F.R.S. Board.

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                  (21) Regulations T, U and X. No proceeds of any of the
            Advances will be used for a purpose which violates, or would be
            inconsistent with, F.R.S. Board Regulation T, U or X. Terms for
            which meanings are provided in F.R.S. Board Regulation T, U or X or
            any regulations substituted therefor, as from time to time in
            effect, are used in clauses (20) and (21) with such meanings. Margin
            stock (as defined in Regulation U) constitutes less than 25% of the
            value of those assets of the Lessee and its Subsidiaries which are
            subject to any limitation on sale, pledge, or other restriction
            hereunder.

                  (22) Subsidiaries. Schedule 8(a)(22) contains an accurate list
            of all Subsidiaries of the Lessee as of the date of this Agreement,
            setting forth their respective jurisdictions of organization and the
            percentage of their respective capital stock or other ownership
            interests owned by the Lessee or other Subsidiaries. All of the
            issued and outstanding shares of capital stock or other ownership
            interests of such Subsidiaries have been (to the extent such
            concepts are relevant with respect to such ownership interests) duly
            authorized and issued and are fully paid and nonassessable.

                  (23) ERISA. The Lessee is not an entity deemed to hold "plan
            assets" within the meaning of 29 C.F.R. ss. 2510.3-101 of an
            employee benefit plan (as defined in Section 3(3) of ERISA) which is
            subject to Title I of ERISA or any plan (within the meaning of
            Section 4975 of the Code). The Unfunded Liabilities of all Single
            Employer Plans do not in the aggregate exceed $5,000,000. Each Plan
            complies in all material respects with all Applicable Law, no
            Reportable Event has occurred with respect to any Plan, neither the
            Lessee nor any other member of the Controlled Group has withdrawn
            from any Plan or initiated steps to do so, and no steps have been
            taken to reorganize or terminate any Plan.

                  (24) Except as set forth on Schedule 8(a)(24), on the date of
            this Participation Agreement, the Lessee and its Subsidiaries will
            have good title, free of all Liens other than those permitted by
            Section 8(d)(19), to all of the property and assets reflected in the
            Lessee's most recent consolidated financial statements provided to
            the Agent as owned by the Lessee and is Subsidiaries.

                  (25) In the ordinary course of its business, the officers of
            the Lessee consider the effect of Environmental Laws on the business
            of the Lessee and its Subsidiaries, in the course of which they
            identify and evaluate potential risks and liabilities accruing to
            the Lessee due to Environmental Laws. On the basis of this
            consideration, the Lessee has concluded that Environmental Laws
            cannot reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect.
            Neither the Lessee nor any Subsidiary has received any notice to the
            effect that its operations are not in material compliance with any
            of the requirements of applicable Environmental Laws or are the
            subject of any federal or state investigation evaluating whether any
            remedial action is needed to respond to a release of any toxic or
            hazardous waste or substance into the environment, which
            non-compliance or remedial action could reasonably be expected to
            have a Material Adverse Effect.

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      (b) Site Acquisition Date Representations and Warranties. As of each Site
Acquisition Date, the Lessee hereby represents and warrants to each of the other
parties hereto that:

                  (1) Representations and Warranties. The representations and
            warranties of the Lessee in the Operative Documents and in Section
            8(a) hereof are true and accurate on and as of such Site Acquisition
            Date, as though made on and as of such Site Acquisition Date (or, if
            stated to relate to an earlier date, shall have been true and
            accurate as of such earlier date). No Event of Default has occurred
            and is continuing and no Default of which the Lessee has knowledge
            and that has not been previously disclosed to the Participants has
            occurred and is continuing under the Master Lease or the
            Construction Agency Agreement or, to the knowledge of the Lessee,
            any other Operative Document. No Default or Event of Default under
            the Master Lease or the Construction Agency Agreement or, to the
            knowledge of the Lessee, any other Operative Document, will occur as
            a result of, or after giving effect to, the acquisition of the Land
            Interest on such date.

                  (2) Due Authorization; Enforceability. Each of the Operative
            Documents to which it is or will become a party with respect to such
            Site Acquisition Date has been or will be, when executed and
            delivered, duly authorized by all appropriate corporate action, and
            has been or will be executed and delivered by the Lessee and,
            assuming due authorization, execution and delivery by the other
            parties thereto, constitutes or will constitute upon the due
            execution thereof the Lessee's legal, valid and binding obligation,
            enforceable against it in accordance with its terms, except as
            enforceability thereof may be limited by (i) bankruptcy, insolvency,
            reorganization, moratorium or other similar laws affecting
            enforcement of creditors' rights generally and (ii) general
            principles of equity (regardless of whether such enforceability is
            considered in a proceeding in equity or at law).

                  (3) No Violation. The execution and delivery by the Lessee of
            each of the Operative Documents to which it is or will become a
            party with respect to such Site Acquisition Date are not, and the
            performance by the Lessee of its obligations under each will not be,
            inconsistent with its Organic Documents, do not and will not
            contravene any Applicable Law, and do not and will not contravene
            any provision of, or constitute a default under, any indenture,
            mortgage or other material contract or other instrument to which the
            Lessee is a party or by which it or its property is bound or require
            the consent or approval of, the giving of notice to, the
            registration with or the taking of any action in respect of or by,
            any Governmental Authority or other Person, except such as have been
            obtained, given or accomplished.

                  (4) Governmental Actions. The Lessee has made or will make all
            filings, recordings and registrations required by any Governmental
            Authority in connection with, and has obtained or will obtain, all
            Governmental Actions necessary or appropriate for the construction
            and commercial operation and use of the applicable Site and the
            performance by the Lessee of the transactions

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            contemplated hereby and by the other Operative Documents which are
            then or theretofore required by Applicable Law; the Lessee will make
            all filings, recordings and registrations required by any
            Governmental Authority in connection with, and will obtain, all
            material Governmental Actions necessary or appropriate for the
            construction and commercial operation and use of the applicable Site
            and the performance by the Lessee of the transactions contemplated
            hereby and by the other Operative Documents not later than the dates
            required by Applicable Law.

                  (5) No Litigation. There are no pending or, to the best
            knowledge of the Lessee, threatened actions or proceedings by or
            before any court or administrative agency or other Governmental
            Authority to which the Lessee is or may become a party or the
            applicable Site is or may become subject which (i) involves any of
            the transactions contemplated hereunder or by any of the Operative
            Documents or (ii) if determined adversely to it, would reasonably be
            likely to materially adversely affect the Lessee's ability to
            perform its obligations under each of the Operative Documents to
            which the Lessee is or will become a party.

                  (6) Performance. Neither the Lessee nor the applicable Site is
            in violation of any Applicable Law the violation of which is
            reasonably likely materially and adversely to affect such Site or
            the transactions contemplated by this Participation Agreement and
            the other Operative Documents or which would materially adversely
            affect Lessee's ability to perform its obligations under each of the
            Operative Documents.

                  (7) No Adverse Contracts or Applicable Law. The Lessee is not
            a party to, or bound by, any contract or agreement or instrument, or
            subject to any charter or other corporate restriction or any
            Applicable Laws which materially and adversely affects the
            applicable Site or the transactions contemplated by this
            Participation Agreement or the Operative Documents or which would
            materially adversely affect its ability to perform its obligations
            under each of the Operative Documents.

                  (8) Patents and Trademarks. The Lessee owns or possesses or
            has the right to use all the patents, patent rights, trademarks,
            service marks, trade names, copyrights, licenses and similar rights
            necessary for the use and operation of the applicable Site under the
            Operative Documents, without any conflict known to it with the
            actual or asserted rights of others which materially and adversely
            affect the Lessee's ability to perform its obligations under the
            Operative Documents to which it is or will become a party. It is
            understood and agreed by the parties hereto that no interest in any
            trademark, trade name, copyright or service mark of the Lessee or an
            Affiliate thereof is being conveyed or transferred to the Owner
            Trustee or any other Person pursuant to any Operative Document.

      (c) Funding Date Representations and Warranties. As of each Funding Date
and each applicable Site Acquisition Date, on which an Advance is made and with
respect to each Site, the Lessee represents and warrants that:

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                  (1) Representations and Warranties. The representations and
            warranties of the Lessee in the Operative Documents and in Section
            8(a) and Section 8(b) hereof are true and accurate on and as of such
            Funding Date, as though made on and as of such Funding Date (or, if
            stated to relate to an earlier date, shall have been true and
            accurate as of such earlier date). No Event of Default has occurred
            and is continuing and no Default of which the Lessee has knowledge
            and that has not been previously disclosed to the Participants has
            occurred and is continuing under the Master Lease or the
            Construction Agency Agreement or, to the knowledge of the Lessee,
            any other Operative Document. No Default or Event of Default under
            the Master Lease or the Construction Agency Agreement or, to the
            knowledge of the Lessee, any other Operative Document, will occur as
            a result of, or after giving effect to, the Advance requested by the
            Funding Request on such date.

                  (2) Enforceability. The related Lease Supplement has been duly
            executed and delivered by the Lessee, and, assuming due
            authorization, execution and delivery thereof by the Lessor,
            constitutes the Lessee's legal, valid and binding obligation,
            enforceable against Lessee in accordance with its terms, except as
            enforceability thereof may be limited by (i) bankruptcy, insolvency,
            reorganization, moratorium or other similar laws affecting
            enforcement of creditors' rights generally and (ii) general
            principles of equity (regardless of whether such enforceability is
            considered in a proceeding in equity or at law).

                  (3) No Support Agreements. The ownership and use of such Site
            by the Trust, the Owner Trustee or the Certificate Holders does not
            require the execution by, or assignment to, any such party of any
            easement, utility, maintenance or other support agreements.

                  (4) Applicable Laws. Such Site and the commercial operation
            thereof for its intended purposes and use thereof are and will be in
            compliance with all Applicable Laws, including, without limitation,
            zoning, planning, building, occupational safety and health laws and
            Environmental Laws of any Governmental Authority having jurisdiction
            over such Site, the Trust, the Owner Trustee, the Lessor or the
            Lessee and all Permitted Exceptions affecting such Site, other than
            such non-compliance that would not, individually or in the
            aggregate, (i) have a Material Adverse Effect, or (ii) impose any
            material penalty on, or result in the imposition of any criminal
            liability on, any Indemnified Person. All requirements thereof
            necessary for the use, occupancy and operation of such Site which
            are then or theretofore required by Applicable Laws or applicable
            Permitted Exceptions have been satisfied in all material respects.

                  (5) No Taxes. No sales, use, transfer, documentation, real
            estate or similar taxes, fees or other charges are payable on the
            Site Acquisition Date for each Site under the laws of any State or
            any governmental subdivision thereof in which a Site is located in
            connection with (A) the entering into, or performance under, or
            enforcement of any Operative Document with respect thereto or (B)
            the lease to the Lessee of the Sites, except such taxes, fees and
            other charges as have been

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            paid or will be paid by the Lessee when due or are included in
            Property Cost or Transaction Expenses.

                  (6) No Events of Loss. Except as disclosed in writing to the
            Certificate Holders in accordance with the Operative Documents, no
            Event of Loss with respect to the Property has occurred and no event
            or condition has occurred which would, with the passage of time or
            the giving of notice, or both, constitute an Event of Loss with
            respect to the Property.

                  (7) Advance. The amount of the Advance requested represents
            amounts owed by the Lessee or Construction Agent in respect of Land
            Acquisition Costs, Property Improvement Costs or Transaction
            Expenses, as the case may be, incurred prior to the date of such
            Advance and for which the Lessee has not previously been reimbursed
            by an Advance or represent amounts with respect to Commitment Fees.
            The conditions precedent to such Advance and the related Equity
            Amount and Loans set forth in Section 9 have been satisfied or
            waived by the Participants.

                  (8) Site. The Site has vehicular and pedestrian access to and
            from open, publicly dedicated streets. The Site has available
            through publicly available right-of-ways or valid easements from
            third parties all services of public utilities necessary for use and
            operation of the Site for its current use. The Site is free from
            material physical defects. No fire or other casualty has occurred
            which has had a Material Adverse Effect on the Site and with respect
            to which the Site has not been repaired or restored.

                  (9) Sites Complete, Description of and Title to Sites. On the
            Site Acquisition Date for each Site, all material approvals of any
            Governmental Authority necessary for the commercial operation of
            such Site will have been received and be in full force and effect.
            On each Site Acquisition Date, after giving effect to the
            transactions contemplated hereby, the Trust will have good and
            marketable title to the Improvements and a ground leasehold interest
            in each Land Interest related to such Site Acquisition Date, subject
            to no Title Defects, free and clear of all Liens, except Permitted
            Liens. As of the date of execution thereof, the description set
            forth in each Lease Supplement will be a true, complete and accurate
            description of the property leased thereunder; and each Site shall
            be located wholly within the boundaries of its respective property,
            without any encroachments onto or therefrom.

                  (10) Compliance With Environmental Protection Requirements. On
            the Site Acquisition Date for each Site (except as disclosed in the
            Environmental Audits delivered by Lessee to the Certificate Holders,
            Lessor and the Lenders for each Site) and during the Lease Term,
            each and every Site is in compliance in all material respects with
            all Environmental Laws which are applicable to the Sites including,
            without limitation, Environmental Laws pertaining to design and
            performance standards and quality criteria for air, water and
            reclamation, and the use, storage, disposal and transportation of
            Hazardous Substances.

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                  (11) Information Provided to Appraiser. With respect to each
            Site, all information and materials which have been provided by the
            Lessee to the Appraiser of such Site in connection with the
            Appraisal of such Site are true and accurate in all material
            respects on the date as of which such information and materials are
            dated or certified and are not incomplete by omitting to state any
            fact necessary to make such information (taken as a whole) not
            misleading at such time in light of the circumstances under which
            such information was provided.

                  (12) Environmental Laws. Except as described in the
            Environmental Audit delivered by the Lessee to the Certificate
            Holders, the Lessor and the Lenders, to the best of the Lessee's
            knowledge:

                        (i) there are no pending or threatened claims,
                  complaints, notices or requests for information relating to
                  the Sites received by the Lessee with respect to any alleged
                  violation of any Environmental Law, which may reasonably be
                  expected to have a Material Adverse Effect on the financial
                  condition, operations, assets, business or properties of the
                  Lessee or which may reasonably be expected to have a Material
                  Adverse Effect on the Site, and

                        (ii) there are no pending or threatened complaints,
                  notices or inquiries to the Lessee relating to the Site
                  regarding potential liability of the Lessee under any
                  Environmental Law, which may reasonably be expected to have a
                  Material Adverse Effect on the financial condition,
                  operations, assets, business or properties of the Lessee.

                  (13) Property. The contemplated use of the Sites by the Lessee
            and its agents, assignees, employees, lessees, licensees and tenants
            will comply in all material respects with all Requirements of Law
            (including, without limitation, all zoning and land use laws and
            Environmental Laws) and Insurance Requirements.

                  (14) Plans and Specifications. Upon Completion of the
            Construction with respect to a Site, all water, sewer, electric,
            gas, telephone and drainage facilities, all other utilities required
            to adequately service such Improvements for its intended use and
            means of access between such Improvements and public highways for
            pedestrians and motor vehicles will be available pursuant to
            adequate permits (including any that may be required under
            applicable Environmental Laws). There is no action, suit or
            proceeding (including any proceeding in condemnation or eminent
            domain or under any Environmental Law) pending or, to the best
            knowledge of the Lessee, threatened with respect to the Lessee, its
            respective Affiliates or the Site which adversely affects the title
            to, or materially and adversely affects the use, operation or value
            of, the Site. All utilities serving the Site, or proposed to serve
            the Site in accordance with the Plans and Specifications, are or
            will be located in, and vehicular access to the Improvements on the
            Site is provided by, either public rights-of-way abutting the
            Property or Appurtenant Rights. With respect to the Site, all
            material licenses, approvals, authorizations, consents, permits
            (including, without limitation,

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            building, demolition and environmental permits, licenses, approvals,
            authorizations and consents), easements and rights-of-way, including
            dedication, required for (x) the use, treatment, storage, transport,
            disposal or disposition of any Hazardous Substance on, at, under or
            from the Property during the construction of the applicable
            Improvements thereon, and (y) construction of such Improvements in
            accordance with the related Plans and Specifications and the
            Construction Agency Agreement have either been obtained from the
            appropriate Governmental Authorities having jurisdiction or from
            private parties, as the case may be, or will be obtained from the
            appropriate Governmental Authorities having jurisdiction or from
            private parties, as the case may be, prior to the time required by
            such Governmental Authority or private party.

                  (15) Insurance. The Lessee has obtained insurance coverage
            covering each Site which meets the requirements of Section 12 of the
            Master Lease, and such coverage is in full force and effect. The
            Lessee carries insurance with reputable insurers in respect of the
            Sites and its Material Assets, in such manner, in such amounts and
            against such risks as is customarily maintained by the Lessee or its
            Affiliates that own or operate similar properties.

                  (16) Flood Hazard Areas. Except as otherwise identified on the
            survey delivered pursuant to Section 9(c)(15), no portion of any of
            the Sites is located in an area identified as a special flood hazard
            area by the Federal Emergency Management Agency or other applicable
            agency. If any of the Sites is located in an area identified as a
            special flood hazard area by the Federal Emergency Management Agency
            or other applicable agency, then flood insurance has been obtained
            for such Site in accordance with the National Flood Insurance Act of
            1968, as amended (in which event, the provisions of Section 12 of
            the Master Lease shall be applicable to such flood insurance).

                  (17) Lease Supplement. With respect to a Site, upon the
            execution and delivery of the Lease Supplement, the Lessee will have
            unconditionally accepted such Site (provided, however, that nothing
            contained herein shall be deemed a waiver by the Lessee of any right
            of action against Persons other than the Lessor and the Lenders with
            respect to title to and condition of the Site on the applicable Site
            Acquisition Date), and no right of offset will exist with respect to
            any Rent or other sums payable under the Master Lease.

      (d) Agreements. The Lessee hereby agrees that:

                  (1) Information. During the Lease Term, the Lessee shall
            furnish to the Agent, the Participants and the Owner Trustee:

                        (i) immediately upon a Responsible Employee of the
                  Lessee becoming aware of the existence of a Lease Default, or
                  Lease Event of Default, written notice specifying the nature
                  of such Lease Default or Lease Event of Default and what
                  action the Lessee is taking or proposes to take with respect
                  thereto;

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                        (ii) as soon as they are available but not later than
                  120 days after the close of each Fiscal Year of the Lessee, an
                  audited balance sheet and the related statements of income and
                  cash flows of the Lessee and its Subsidiaries at the end of
                  such Fiscal Year, accompanied by an opinion of a firm of
                  independent certified public accountants of recognized
                  national standing stating that such financial statements
                  present fairly in all material respects the financial
                  condition of the companies being reported upon and have been
                  prepared in accordance with GAAP and that the audit by such
                  accountants in connection with such financial statements has
                  been made in accordance with generally accepted auditing
                  standards;

                        (iii) as soon as they are available but not later than
                  45 days after the close of each of the first three quarters of
                  each Fiscal Year of the Lessee, unaudited consolidated and
                  consolidating balance sheets and related statements of income
                  and cash flows of the Lessee and its Subsidiaries, showing the
                  Lessee's financial condition, on a consolidated and
                  consolidating basis, at and as of the end of such year-to-date
                  period, all certified by one of the Lessee's chief financial
                  officers, principal accounting officer, Treasurer or Assistant
                  Treasurer (each a "Financial Officer") as fairly presenting
                  its financial condition and results of operations on a
                  consolidated and consolidating basis and, with respect to the
                  consolidated statements, in accordance with GAAP consistently
                  applied, subject to normal year-end audit adjustments;

                        (iv) together with the financial statements delivered
                  pursuant to clauses (ii) and (iii) above, a certificate
                  substantially in the form of Exhibit K attached hereto from
                  the Lessee's Financial Officer showing a calculation of the
                  financial covenants set forth in Section 9(d)(8); and

                        (v) promptly upon their becoming available, one copy of
                  each financial statement, report, or proxy statement sent by
                  the Lessee to its shareholders generally, and of each regular
                  or periodic report filed by the Lessee with any securities
                  exchange or with the Securities and Exchange Commission or any
                  successor agency.

                  (2) Property Costs. The Lessee, as Construction Agent, will
            maintain a record of the Property Cost for each Site, and shall
            certify the same periodically to the Lessor, the Agent and the
            Participants from time to time upon request.

                  (3) Real Estate Transfer Tax. The Lessee shall, within one
            hundred eighty (180) days after the date hereof, take such action as
            may be necessary to cause the Cook County Assessor to issue a
            permanent tax identification number which affects only the Property,
            all of the Property and no other real property, including, without
            limitation, a petition for division of property. Lessee shall pay,
            prior to the date the same becomes due and payable, all Taxes
            assessed, billed or imposed with respect to the Property and all
            additional real property which may be assessed, billed or taxed
            together with any portion of the Property. The

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            payment of such Taxes is hereby acknowledged and agreed to be
            included within the scope and intent of the General Tax Indemnity
            set forth in Section 13 of this Participation Agreement.

                  (4) Officer's Certificate. During the Lease Term with respect
            to each Site, within one hundred twenty (120) days after the close
            of each Fiscal Year of the Lessee, the Lessee shall deliver to the
            Certificate Holders, the Agent and the Owner Trustee a certificate
            in the form of Exhibit C hereto of a Responsible Employee of the
            Lessee stating that such Responsible Employee has reviewed the
            required insurance coverages, the relevant terms of the Master Lease
            and the other Operative Documents and has made, or caused to be
            made, under such Responsible Employee's supervision, a review of the
            transactions and conditions of the Lessee from the beginning of the
            fiscal period stated in such request to the date of the certificate
            and that such review has not disclosed the existence during such
            period of any condition or event which constitutes a Lease Default
            or Lease Event of Default or, if any such condition exists,
            specifying the nature and period of existence and what action the
            Lessee has taken or proposes to take with respect thereto.

                  (5) Defense of Title. The Lessee will, at all times, at its
            own cost and expense, warrant and defend the ground leasehold
            interest of the Trust or the Owner Trustee, as the case may be, to
            the Sites.

                  (6) Title Defect. The Lessee will not, directly, or
            indirectly, create, incur, assume or suffer to exist any Title
            Defect.

                  (7) Non-Discrimination. The Lessee will operate and otherwise
            deal with the Sites using the Lessee's same general business
            practices as are applicable generally to its owned and leased
            properties which are similar to such Sites.

                  (8) Financial Covenants.

                        (i) Fixed Charge Coverage Ratio. Lessee will not permit
                  the ratio, determined as of the end of each of its Fiscal
                  Quarters, of (A) Consolidated EBITDA plus Consolidated Rentals
                  to (B) the sum of (x) Consolidated Interest Expense plus (y)
                  Consolidated Rentals, all calculated for the Lessee and its
                  Subsidiaries on a consolidated basis, for the four Fiscal
                  Quarter period then ending to be less than 3.0 to 1.0.

                        (ii) Leverage Ratio. The Lessee will not permit the
                  ratio, determined as of the end of each of its Fiscal
                  Quarters, of (A) Consolidated Funded Indebtedness to (B)
                  Consolidated EBITDA plus Consolidated Rentals for the four
                  Fiscal Quarter period then ending to be greater than 3.0 to
                  1.0.

                        (iii) Minimum Tangible Net Worth. The Lessee will at all
                  times maintain Consolidated Tangible Net Worth of not less
                  than the sum of (A) $500,000,000 plus (B) 50% of Consolidated
                  Net Income earned in

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                  each Fiscal Quarter beginning with the quarter ending June 30,
                  2000 (without deduction for losses) plus (C) 100% of the net
                  cash proceeds of any additional paid-in capital or other
                  equity investment or proceeds from the issuance and sale of
                  any common or preferred stock.

                        (iv) Minimum Current Ratio. The Lessee will (a) at all
                  times between June 30, 2000 and December 30, 2001, inclusive,
                  maintain a Current Ratio greater than 2.00, (b) at all times
                  between December 31, 2001 and December 30, 2002, inclusive,
                  maintain a Current Ratio greater than 2.25, and (c) at all
                  times from and after December 31, 2002 maintain a Current
                  Ratio greater than 2.50. "Current Ratio" shall mean current
                  assets divided by current liabilities as defined by GAAP.

                  (9) Change In Control. Without the prior written consent of
            the Agent and the Required Participants (which consent shall not be
            unreasonably withheld):

                        (i) Lessee will not permit or suffer to occur any Change
                  In Control.

                        (ii) The Lessee will not, nor will it permit any
                  Subsidiary to, merge or consolidate with or into any other
                  Person, except that a Subsidiary may merge into the Lessee or
                  a Wholly Owned Subsidiary.

                        (iii) The Lessee will not, nor will it permit any
                  Subsidiary to, lease, sell or otherwise dispose of its
                  property to any other Person, including any right, title or
                  interest in any of the Operative Documents, except:

                              (A) Sales of inventory in the ordinary course of
                        business; or

                              (B) Leases, sales or other dispositions of its
                        property that, together with all other property of the
                        Lessee and its Subsidiaries previously leased, sold or
                        disposed of (other than inventory in the ordinary course
                        of business) as permitted by this Section during the
                        twelve month period ending with the month in which any
                        such lease, sale or other disposition occurs, do not
                        constitute a Substantial Portion of the property of the
                        Lessee and its Subsidiaries; or

                              (C) Lessee may transfer the Land and Lessee's
                        interests under the Operative Documents to a Wholly
                        Owned Subsidiary of Lessee so long as (1) such Wholly
                        Owned Subsidiary is solvent and (2) marchFIRST, Inc.
                        remains liable for all obligations of the Lessee under
                        the Operative Documents.

                        (iv) The Lessee will not, nor will it permit any
                  Subsidiary to, make or suffer to exist any Investments
                  (including without limitation,

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                  loans and advances to, and other Investments in,
                  Subsidiaries), or commitments therefor, or to become or remain
                  a partner in any partnership or joint venture, or to make any
                  Acquisition of any Person, except:

                              (A)   Permitted Investments; or

                              (B)   Existing Investments in Subsidiaries and
                                    other Investments in existence on the date
                                    hereof and described in Schedule 8(d)(9); or

                              (C)   New cash Investments in any Person
                                    (including any newly created Subsidiary) an
                                    aggregate annual amount (tested as of the
                                    date such Investment is made) not to exceed
                                    $100,000,000 (exclusive of Lessee's
                                    Investment in Blue Vector, Inc. as detailed
                                    in Exhibit M attached hereto)); or

                              (D)   Acquisitions through the payment of cash in
                                    the aggregate amount (tested at the time of
                                    an Acquisition) for all such Acquisitions of
                                    not more than $100,000,000.

      Subject to limitations of Applicable Law, Lessee agrees to give the Agent
      and the Participants reasonable advance notice of (i) any proposed event
      which would require the consent of the Agent and the Required Participants
      under this Section 8(d)(9), (ii) the acquisition by any Person, or two or
      more Persons acting in concert, of beneficial ownership (within the
      meaning of Rule 13d3 of the Securities and Exchange Commission under the
      Securities Exchange Act of 1934) of 30% or more of the outstanding shares
      of voting stock of the Lessee or (iii) Acquisitions through the issuance
      or delivery of the stock (or other equity or debt instrument) of Lessee or
      any Affiliate of Lessee in the amount (tested at the time of an
      Acquisition) of $300,000,000 or more.

                  (10) ERISA. The Lessee will not, in the future, cause directly
            or indirectly any employee benefit plan (other than a governmental
            plan) with respect to which the Lessee or one of its Affiliates is a
            party in interest, all within the meaning of ERISA, to become a
            party to any of the Operative Documents or to have any interest in
            any of the transactions contemplated thereby, directly or
            indirectly. As used in this Section, the terms "employee benefit
            plan" and "party in interest" shall have the meanings assigned to
            them in ERISA.

                  (11) No Issuance. The Lessee agrees that neither the Lessee
            nor anyone acting on its behalf will offer any interests in the
            Trust Estate (including the trust certificates) or any part thereof
            or any securities similar thereto for issue or sale to, or solicit
            any offer to acquire any of the same from, anyone so as to bring the
            issuance and sale of the interests in the Trust Estate (including
            the trust certificates) within the provisions of Section 5 of the
            Securities Act or any similar provisions under any applicable state
            "blue sky" or similar state securities laws.

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                  (12) Ground Leases; Permitted Exceptions. The Lessee agrees to
            duly and timely perform in all material respects all obligations
            under the Permitted Exceptions and all obligations of the ground
            lessee under each Ground Lease (including, without limitation, the
            payment of all ground rent due thereunder from time to time) and to
            comply with all provisions of such Permitted Exceptions and Ground
            Leases; provided, however, that if the Lessee duly exercises the
            Sale Option with respect to any Site and duly consummates the sale
            of such Site, the foregoing covenant shall not be applicable to any
            obligation first accrued after the consummation of such sale.

                  (13) Lessee's Covenant to Notify of Relocation. Lessee
            covenants and agrees to give the Owner Trustee and the Certificate
            Holders at least 30 days' prior written notice of any relocation of
            its chief executive office, principal place of business or the place
            where its records concerning the Sites is located.

                  (14) Corporate Franchises. Lessee covenants and agrees that it
            will at all times maintain its corporate existence and all material
            franchises and qualifications in good standing, provided, however,
            that the foregoing shall not limit or modify Lessee's rights or
            obligations under Section 6(c)(9), and at all times comply in all
            respects with any Applicable Law, rule, regulation, order or decree
            applicable to Lessee or its operations or properties the failure to
            comply with which, in each case or in the aggregate, would have a
            Material Adverse Effect upon Lessee.

                  (15) Completion and Operation. Lessee covenants and agrees
            that each Site shall be operated for the use intended by the Lessee
            upon the Lessor's acquisition of such Site and all related
            Improvements shall be completed on or before the end of the
            Construction Period applicable to such Site. Lessee shall deliver to
            the Certificate Holders and the Owner Trustee, on or before the
            Outside Completion Date applicable to such Site, a certificate of a
            Responsible Employee of the Lessee stating that such Site is
            operating for the use intended by the Lessee upon the Lessor's
            acquisition of such Site and all Construction has been completed on
            or before such date.

                  (16) Compliance With Environmental Protection Requirements;
            Access to Environmental Audits. During the Lease Term, the Lessee
            will cause each and every Site to be in compliance in all material
            respects with all Environmental Laws which are applicable to the
            Sites including, without limitation, Environmental Laws pertaining
            to design and performance standards and quality criteria for air,
            water and reclamation, and the use, storage, disposal and
            transportation of Hazardous Substances. During the Lease Term, the
            Lessee shall furnish to the Agent, the Participants and the Owner
            Trustee, upon request, the Environmental Audits related to the Sites
            and, to the extent not so furnished or if the requesting party shall
            determine (in its reasonable judgment) that additional Environmental
            Audits shall be necessary, the Lessee (at its cost) shall obtain
            from environmental consultants acceptable to the requesting party
            and furnish such additional Environmental Audits (including Phase
            Two Environmental Audits) as

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            any of the Agent, the Participants and the Owner Trustee shall
            request, which Environmental Audits shall be in form and substance
            acceptable to the Agent, the Participants and the Owner Trustee.

                  (17) Development.

                        (i) Lessee covenants and agrees that it shall not
                  (unless Lessee's needs for parking cannot be fully satisfied
                  by the Parking Facility Site and the Parking Facility Site is
                  otherwise fully occupied by Lessee) directly or indirectly
                  purchase, use, provide, lease, rent, construct, subsidize or
                  in any other manner make use of, any parking facilities or
                  services for or in connection with or in any way related to
                  the marchFIRST, Inc. Campus and the parking needs of its
                  employees, guests, visitors and invitees, other than the
                  Parking Facility Site. This covenant shall be placed of record
                  in a document duly recorded with the Cook County Recorder of
                  Deeds as a covenant running with the land, burdening the
                  marchFIRST, Inc. Campus and benefiting the Parking Facility
                  Site.

                        (ii) The TIF Documents Recognition and Consent Agreement
                  and any amendment to the Alley Vacation Ordinance shall be
                  subject to the prior approval of Lessor, such approval not to
                  be unreasonably withheld. The form of the Redevelopment
                  Agreement and Recognition and Consent Agreement (when taken
                  together, but not individually), attached hereto as Exhibit L,
                  are hereby approved by Lessor.

                  (18) Credit Agreement Covenants. The Lessee shall comply with
            and be bound by the covenants contained in the Credit Agreement,
            which provisions, together with the related definitions, as in
            effect on the date hereof, are hereby incorporated by reference
            (mutatis mutandis) for the benefit of the Lessor, the Agent and the
            Participants and shall continue regardless of the termination of the
            Credit Agreement or any amendment of, or any consent to any
            deviation from or other modification of, the Credit Agreement;
            provided that references in the Credit Agreement to (i) any "Lender"
            or "Agent" or words of like import shall be deemed to be references
            to the Participants and the Agent under this Agreement, (ii)
            "Default" shall be deemed to be references to a Default, and (iii)
            any "Loan Document" shall be deemed to be references to the
            Operative Documents.

                  (19) Liens. The Lessee will not, nor will it permit any Lessee
            Subsidiary to, create, incur, or suffer to exist any Lien in, of or
            on the property (other than the Property) of the Lessee or any of
            its Subsidiaries except Liens which, when considered in the
            aggregate, may reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse
            Effect on Lessee.

SECTION 9. CONDITIONS PRECEDENT TO DOCUMENTATION DATE, SITE ACQUISITION DATES
           AND ADVANCES.

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      (a) Conditions Precedent to the Documentation Date. The obligations of the
Lessor, the Participants and the Agent to enter into the Operative Documents on
the Documentation Date, are subject to each of the following conditions
precedent, with all documents to be in form and substance acceptable to the
Agent and the Participants:

                  (1) Corporate Proceedings. Each of the Participants, the
            Agent, the Owner Trustee and the Lessee shall have received evidence
            of the corporate existence and the incumbency of officers, and
            copies of such corporate resolutions and authorizations, of each of
            the other parties as each such party shall reasonably request.

                  (2) Opinions of Counsel for Lessee. Each of the Participants,
            the Agent and the Owner Trustee shall have received favorable
            opinions, dated such date, addressed to each of them from internal
            counsel of the Lessee and Altheimer & Gray, special counsel for the
            Lessee, which opinions shall be substantially in the forms of
            Exhibit D-1 and Exhibit D-2 hereto, respectively.

                  (3) Opinion of Counsel for Owner Trustee. Each of the
            Certificate Holders and the Lessee shall have received a favorable
            opinion, dated such date addressed to each of them from Richards,
            Layton & Finger, special counsel for Wilmington Trust Company and
            the Owner Trustee, which opinion shall be substantially in the form
            of Exhibit E hereto.

                  (4) Illegality. There is no Applicable Law which would make it
            illegal for the Certificate Holders, the Owner Trustee, or the
            Lessee to participate in any of the transactions contemplated by the
            Operative Documents.

                  (5) Documents in Full Force and Effect. Each of this
            Participation Agreement and each of the Operative Documents
            delivered on the Documentation Date shall be in form and substance
            reasonably satisfactory to the Agent, the Lessee, the Participants
            and the Owner Trustee, shall be in full force and effect on the
            Documentation Date, and an executed counterpart of each thereof
            shall have been delivered to each such party.

                  (6) No Default. No Default or Event of Default shall have
            occurred and be continuing on the Documentation Date.

                  (7) Governmental Actions. There shall be no Governmental
            Actions by, from or with any Governmental Authority that are
            necessary or, in the reasonable opinion of the Agent, the Lessee,
            any Participant or the Owner Trustee, advisable (i) in connection
            with the due execution, delivery and performance by the parties to
            each of the Operative Documents of such Operative Documents to which
            it is or will become a party or with respect to the transactions
            contemplated hereby or thereby, and (ii) so that none of the
            Participants, the Agent, Owner Trustee or Wilmington Trust Company
            will become, (x) solely by reason of entering into this
            Participation Agreement or the other Operative Documents or (except
            with respect to the exercise by any Person of any control over a
            Site upon the

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            occurrence of a Lease Event of Default or the expiration or other
            termination of the Lease) the consummation of any of the
            transactions contemplated hereby or thereby, subject to regulation
            by any Governmental Authority which regulates or otherwise has
            jurisdiction over any facilities for the retail distribution of
            petroleum products; or (y) except for regulation the applicability
            of which depends on the existence of facts in addition to the
            ownership of the Sites upon the exercise of remedies under the Lease
            or upon the expiration of the Lease, subject to ongoing regulation
            of its operations by any Governmental Authority.

                  (8) No Litigation. There shall be no legal action, suit,
            investigation or proceeding by or before any Governmental Authority
            pending or threatened against or affecting the Lessee or any of its
            respective properties, which materially and adversely affects any of
            the transactions contemplated by this Participation Agreement or the
            other Operative Documents or the ability of the Lessee to perform
            its obligations hereunder or under the other Operative Documents.

                  (9) No Violation. The Lessee shall be in compliance with all
            Applicable Laws the violation of which is reasonably likely to
            affect materially and adversely the transactions contemplated by
            this Participation Agreement and the other Operative Documents,
            including, without limitation, all Environmental Laws.

                  (10) Representations and Warranties. The representations and
            warranties of each of the Participants, Wilmington Trust Company,
            the Owner Trustee and the Lessee contained herein or in any other
            Operative Document executed and delivered on or prior to such date
            (other than representations and warranties made with respect to
            Sites) shall be true and accurate on and as of the Documentation
            Date, as though made on and as of such date (or, if stated to have
            been made as of an earlier date, shall have been true and accurate
            as of such date) and each of the Participants, the Owner Trustee and
            the Lessee shall have received an Officer's Certificate, dated such
            date, to such effect from each of such parties.

      (b) Conditions Precedent to each Advance. The obligations of the
Participants to make an Advance on each Site Acquisition Date or each Funding
Date, as the case may be, the obligation of the Certificate Holders to fund the
related Equity Amount on each Site Acquisition Date or such Funding Date, as the
case may be, and the obligation of the Lenders to make the related Loan on such
Site Acquisition Date or such Funding Date, as the case may be, are subject to
satisfaction or waiver of the following conditions precedent, with all documents
to be in form and substance acceptable to the Agent and the Participants:

                  (1) Funding Request. Each of the Agent and the Certificate
            Holders shall have received a fully executed counterpart of the
            applicable Funding Request, executed by the Lessee, in accordance
            with Section 3(c). Each of the delivery of a Funding Request and the
            acceptance by the Lessee of the proceeds of such Advance shall
            constitute a representation and warranty by the Lessee that on the
            applicable Funding Date (both immediately before and after giving
            effect to the

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            making of such Advance and the application of the proceeds thereof),
            the statements made in Section 8 are true and correct.

                  (2) Construction Certificate. With respect to any Site Costs
            to be paid or reimbursed using the proceeds of such Advance, the
            Certificate Holders and Agent shall have received, at least three
            (3) days prior to the applicable Funding Date, a Construction
            Certificate in the form of Exhibit I hereto (a "Construction
            Certificate"), together with all attachments thereto.

                  (3) Governmental Permits, etc. The Certificate Holders and
            Agent shall have received evidence satisfactory to it that all
            permits, licenses and consents required by any Governmental
            Authority in connection with the Construction for which the Advance
            is being requested have been obtained and are in full force and
            effect on the applicable Funding Date.

                  (4) Fees. The Arranger shall have received all fees then due
            and payable pursuant to the Fee Letter, and each Participant shall
            have received all Commitment Fees and upfront fees then due and
            payable pursuant to Section 4(d).

                  (5) Representations and Warranties. The representations and
            warranties of each of the Certificate Holders, Wilmington Trust
            Company, the Owner Trustee and the Lessee contained herein or in any
            other Operative Document executed and delivered on or prior to such
            date (other than representations and warranties made with respect to
            Sites that are not the subject of such Site Acquisition Date) shall
            be true and accurate on and as of such Site Acquisition Date, as
            though made on and as of such date (or, if stated to have been made
            as of an earlier date, shall have been true and accurate as of such
            date) and each of the Certificate Holders, Wilmington Trust Company,
            the Owner Trustee, the Agent and the Lessee shall have received an
            Officer's Certificate, dated such date, to such effect from each of
            such parties.

                  (6) No Litigation. There shall be no legal action, suit,
            investigation or proceeding by or before any Governmental Authority
            pending or threatened against or affecting the Lessee or any of its
            respective properties, which materially and adversely affects any
            Site to be leased on such Site Acquisition Date, or any of the
            transactions contemplated by this Participation Agreement or the
            other Operative Documents or the ability of the Lessee to perform
            its obligations hereunder or under the other Operative Documents.

                  (7) Event of Default. There shall not have occurred and be
            continuing any Lease Event of Default, and no Lease Event of Default
            will have occurred after giving effect to the making of the Advance
            requested by such Funding Request.

                  (8) Available Commitments. After giving effect to the
            applicable Advance, the condition set forth in the last sentence of
            Section 3(a)(1) shall not be violated.

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                  (9) Construction Costs. After giving effect to the applicable
            Advance, the estimated as yet unpaid cost to the Construction Agent
            of completing the Construction pursuant to the Construction
            Documents shall not exceed the Available Commitments.

                  (10) Title Insurance Policy. After giving effect to the
            applicable Advance, the aggregate amount of the owner's title
            insurance policy or policies described in clause (x) of Section
            9(c)(13) shall not be less than the Property Cost for the Property,
            and the aggregate amount of the lender's title insurance policy or
            policies described in clause (y) of Section 9(c)(13) shall not be
            less than ninety-six percent (96%) of the Property Cost.

      (c) Further Conditions to each Site Acquisition Date. The obligation of
the Lessor to acquire the Sites on each Site Acquisition Date, the obligation of
the Certificate Holders to fund the related Equity Amount on such Site
Acquisition Date and the obligation of each Lender to make the related Loan on
such Site Acquisition Date, are subject to satisfaction or waiver of the
following conditions precedent, with all documents to be in form and substance
acceptable to the Agent and the Participants:

                  (1) Taxes. All Taxes, if any, due and payable on or prior to
            the Documentation Date in connection with the execution, delivery,
            recording and filing of the Operative Documents and in connection
            with the consummation of the transactions contemplated thereby shall
            have been paid in full on or prior to the Documentation Date.

                  (2) Appraisal. The Appraisal of such Site shall (a) be
            delivered to each Participant, the Lessor, the Agent and the Owner
            Trustee at least one (1) week prior to the applicable Site
            Acquisition Date, (b) comply with FIRREA, and (c) be in form and
            substance satisfactory to the Participants.

                  (3) Governmental Actions. There shall be no Governmental
            Actions by, from or with any Governmental Authority that are
            necessary or, in the reasonable opinion of the Certificate Holders,
            the Owner Trustee, the Agent or the Lessee, advisable (i) in
            connection with the due execution, delivery and performance by the
            Certificate Holders, the Owner Trustee, the Agent, the Lenders or
            Lessee of each Operative Document to which it is or will become a
            party or with respect to the transactions contemplated hereby or
            thereby (including, without limitation, the construction, location,
            sale, ownership, leasing, use or operation of the Sites to be leased
            on such Site Acquisition Date) and (ii) so that none of the
            Certificate Holders, the Owner Trustee, the Lenders or Wilmington
            Trust Company will become, (x) solely by reason of entering into
            this Participation Agreement or the other Operative Documents or
            (except with respect to the exercise by any Person of any control
            over a Site upon the occurrence of a Lease Event of Default or the
            expiration or other termination of the Master Lease) the
            consummation of any of the transactions contemplated hereby or
            thereby, subject to regulation by any Governmental Authority which
            regulates or otherwise has jurisdiction over the commercial
            operations for which such properties are intended; or (y) except for

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            regulation the applicability of which depends on the existence of
            facts in addition to the ownership of the Sites upon the exercise of
            remedies under the Master Lease or upon the expiration of the Master
            Lease, subject to ongoing regulation of its operations by any
            Governmental Authority.

                  (4) No Litigation. There shall be no legal action, suit,
            investigation or proceeding by or before any Governmental Authority
            pending or threatened against or affecting the Lessee or any of the
            Sites, which materially and adversely affects any Site to be leased
            on such Site Acquisition Date, or any of the transactions
            contemplated by this Participation Agreement or the other Operative
            Documents or the ability of the Lessee to perform its obligations
            hereunder or under the other Operative Documents.

                  (5) Illegality. There is no Applicable Law which would make it
            illegal for the Certificate Holders, the Owner Trustee, or the
            Lessee to participate in any of the transactions contemplated by the
            Operative Documents.

                  (6) Recordation. The Lessor, the Certificate Holders and the
            Lenders shall have received evidence reasonably satisfactory to it
            that the Lender Mortgage, Specific Assignment of Leases and Rents
            and Lease Supplement relating to the applicable Site have been, or
            are being, recorded (or satisfactory arrangements have been made for
            prompt recordation) in a manner sufficient to properly secure each
            of their interests therein and fees payable in connection therewith
            have been paid by Lessee.

                  (7) Evidence of Property Insurance. The Agent, the Lessor and
            the Certificate Holders shall have received evidence that the
            insurance maintained by the Lessee with respect to the applicable
            Site satisfies the requirements set forth in Section 12 of the
            Master Lease, setting forth the respective coverage, limits of
            liability, carrier, policy number and period of coverage.

                  (8) Environmental Audit. Each Participant, the Lessor, the
            Agent and the Owner Trustee shall have received an Environmental
            Audit with respect to the applicable Site, dated no earlier than
            five months prior to the applicable Site Acquisition Date, with
            respect to which it shall have received a letter from the
            environmental consultant to the effect that it shall be entitled to
            rely thereupon; and the Environmental Audit shall be satisfactory in
            form and substance to each Participant, the Lessor, the Agent and
            the Owner Trustee in their respective sole discretion.

                  (9) Construction Agency Agreement Supplement. On or prior to
            the applicable Site Acquisition Date, the Lessee and the Lessor
            shall have delivered to the Agent a Construction Agency Agreement
            Supplement with respect to the applicable Site fully executed by the
            Lessee, as Construction Agent, and the Lessor.

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                  (10) Specific Assignment of Leases and Rents. On or prior to
            the applicable Site Acquisition Date, the Lessor shall have
            delivered to the Agent a Specific Assignment of Leases and Rents
            substantially in the form attached to the Master Assignment of
            Leases and Rents with respect to the applicable Site, together with
            a consent to and acknowledgment of such Specific Assignment of
            Leases and Rents duly executed by the Lessee.

                  (11) Lease Supplement. On or prior to the applicable Site
            Acquisition Date, the Lessee and the Lessor shall have delivered the
            original counterpart of the Lease Supplement executed by the Lessee
            and the Lessor with respect to the applicable Site to the Agent.

                  (12) Lender Mortgage. On or prior to the applicable Site
            Acquisition Date, the Lessor shall have delivered to the Agent a
            Lender Mortgage substantially in the form attached hereto as Exhibit
            G (with appropriate modifications for applicable state law) with
            respect to the applicable Site, together with a consent to and
            acknowledgment of such Lender Mortgage duly executed by the Lessee.

                  (13) Property Survey; Title Policies. At least one (1) week
            prior to the applicable Site Acquisition Date, the Lessee shall have
            delivered to the Lessor, Certificate Holders and Agent, on behalf of
            the Lenders, an American Land Title Association ("ALTA")/1992
            (Urban) Survey of the applicable Land Interest certified to the
            Lessor, the Agent and the title company and otherwise in form
            reasonably acceptable to the Agent and a commitment to deliver the
            following title policies (the "Title Policies"): (x) an ALTA
            extended coverage owner's title insurance policy covering the
            applicable Site in favor of the Lessor and (y) an ALTA extended
            coverage lender's title insurance policy covering the applicable
            Site in favor of the Agent, on behalf of the Lenders. The owner's
            policy described in clause (x) shall be subject only to Permitted
            Exceptions, be in an amount not less than the Commitment for the
            applicable Site, be reasonably satisfactory to the Lessor and
            contain comprehensive, mechanics liens, encroachment, non-violation
            of covenants and restrictions, survey matters, recharacterization,
            3.1 zoning (based upon plans and specifications) endorsements and
            such other commercially available endorsements as may be requested
            by the Agent. The lender's title insurance policy described in
            clause (y) shall (i) be subject only to Permitted Exceptions, (ii)
            be in an amount not less than 97% of the amount of the related
            owner's title insurance policy, (iii) be reasonably satisfactory to
            the Agent and contain revolving credit, variable rate, usury,
            comprehensive, fraudulent conveyances, recharacterization, doing
            business, mechanics liens, encroachment, non-violation of covenants
            and restrictions, survey matters, recharacterization, 3.1 zoning
            (based upon plans and specifications) endorsements and such other
            commercially available endorsements as may be requested by the
            Agent.

                  (14) Title Representations. Title to the applicable Site shall
            conform to the representations and warranties set forth in Section
            8(c)(9).

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                  (15) No Default. There shall not have occurred and be
            continuing any Event of Default under any of the Operative
            Documents, and no Event of Default under any of the Operative
            Documents will have occurred after giving effect to the acquisition
            of the Land Interest requested by such Funding Request.

                  (16) Supplemental Opinions of Counsel of Lessee. On or prior
            to the applicable Site Acquisition Date, the Lessee shall have
            delivered to the Agent, each Participant and the Lessor a supplement
            to the opinion of Altheimer & Gray, counsel to the Lessee.

                  (17) UCC Financing Statements. Lessee and Lessor shall have
            executed and submitted for filing or recording, as applicable,
            Uniform Commercial Code financing statements (which may be in the
            form of amendments to existing financing statements) with respect to
            each new Site.

                  (18) Residual Value Insurance Policy. The Agent shall have
            received a residual value insurance policy with respect to such Site
            in form and amount and from an insurer satisfactory to the Agent and
            the Required Participants.

                  (19) Other Documents. The Lessee shall have delivered or
            caused to be delivered such other documents as the Lessor and Agent
            may reasonably request.

      (d) Conditions to Initial Construction Advance. In addition to the
conditions precedent set forth above, for the first Advance with respect to any
Identified Project for the payment of Construction of the applicable
Improvements for such Identified Project, the obligation of the Certificate
Holders to fund the related Equity Amount on such Funding Date and the
obligation of each Lender to make the related Loan on such Funding Date, are
subject to satisfaction or waiver of the following conditions precedent (it
being understood that the Lessor's obligations shall not be subject to the
following to the extent such conditions are actions required of the Lessor):

                  (1) Plans and Specifications; Construction Schedule;
            Construction Milestones. On or prior to the applicable Funding Date,
            the Lessee shall have delivered to the Agent the Plans and
            Specifications (which need not be final construction Plans and
            Specifications, and may be preliminary drawings and specifications),
            a schedule for Construction completion for the Improvements for the
            applicable Property, and the Construction Milestones, certified by
            the Construction Agent;

                  (2) Construction Budget. On or prior to the applicable Funding
            Date, the Lessee shall have delivered to the Agent the Construction
            Budget for the applicable Property, certified by the Construction
            Agent; and

                  (3) Construction Contract. On or prior to the applicable
            Funding Date, the Lessee shall have delivered to the Agent the
            Construction Contract for the Construction of the Improvements on
            the applicable Property, which Construction Contract and the
            contractor party thereto shall have been approved by the Required
            Participants, and under which Construction Contract, the cost of
            design

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            of the applicable Improvements, including, without limitation, the
            applicable Plans and Specifications and the cost of Construction of
            such Improvements in accordance with such Plans and Specifications
            shall not exceed the applicable Construction Budget

All documents and instruments required to be delivered on each Site Acquisition
Date shall be delivered at the offices of Mayer, Brown & Platt, 190 South
LaSalle Street, Chicago, Illinois 60603, or at such other location as may be
determined by the Agent and the Lessee.

SECTION 10. COMPLETION DATE CONDITIONS.

      (a) Completion Date. The Completion Date with respect to each Site shall
be deemed to have occurred for purposes of the Operative Documents on the
earlier of:

                  (1) the earliest date on which each of the following events
            shall have occurred:

                        (a) the Construction relating to such Site shall have
                  been substantially completed in accordance with the Plans and
                  Specifications and all Applicable Law;

                        (b) such Site shall be ready for occupancy and operation
                  for its intended purpose in accordance with the Plans and
                  Specifications, as evidenced by the issuance by the
                  appropriate Governmental Authority of temporary and/or
                  permanent certificates of occupancy for all of the
                  Improvements (other than such Improvements that are not
                  essential to the operation of such Site for its intended
                  purpose in accordance with the Plans and Specifications)
                  contemplated by the Plans and Specifications; and

                        (c) the Lessor and the Agent shall have received a
                  Completion Certificate from the Construction Agent
                  substantially in the form of Exhibit F hereto (a "Completion
                  Certificate"), or

                  (2) the Outside Completion Date.

      (b) Reappraisal Upon Completion. Within ten (10) days from the Completion
Date for any Site, the Participants shall be entitled to require, at Lessee's
sole cost and expense, a new Appraisal of such Site taking into account such
Completion. Such new Appraisal shall use methodology similar to that of the
Appraisal delivered in connection with the applicable Site Acquisition Date,
with appropriate changes in assumptions. In the event such new Appraisal shall
conclude that the Fair Market Sales Value of such Site upon such Completion or
as of the end of the Basic Term, and as may be extended pursuant to Section 6(a)
of the Master Lease, is less than the Site Balance (such amount, a "FMV
Shortfall"), Lessee shall make a special lease payment to the Agent equal to
such FMV Shortfall. Notwithstanding the foregoing, Lessee may elect, at Lessee's
cost, to deliver to the Participants, the Agent and the Owner Trustee, not later
than sixty (60) days prior to the Completion Date, a residual value insurance
policy in amount, form and substance acceptable to each of the Participants, the
Agent and the Owner Trustee from

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an insurance company acceptable to the Participants, the Agent and the Owner
Trustee, which will insure any loss from the value of the applicable Site being
less than the applicable Site Balance. In such event, the Participants shall not
request a new Appraisal.

SECTION 11. TRANSFERS OF LENDERS' INTERESTS.

      (a) Permitted Assignments. Any Lender may, in the ordinary course of its
business and in accordance with Applicable Law, at any time assign to one or
more banks or other entities ("Transferees") all or any part of its rights and
obligations under the Operative Documents or the Property subject to the consent
of Lessee, which consent shall not be unreasonably withheld. Such assignment
shall be substantially in the form of Exhibit J-1 or in such other form as may
be agreed to by the parties thereto. The consent of the Lessee and the Agent
shall be required prior to an assignment becoming effective with respect to a
Transferee which is not a Lender or an Affiliate thereof; provided, however,
that if an Event of Default has occurred and is continuing, the consent of the
Lessee shall not be required. Such consent shall not be unreasonably withheld or
delayed. Each such assignment with respect to a Transferee which is not a Lender
or an Affiliate thereof shall (unless each of the Lessee and the Agent otherwise
consents) be in an amount not less than the lesser of (i) $5,000,000.00 or (ii)
the remaining amount of the assigning Lender's Commitment (calculated as at the
date of such assignment) or outstanding Loans (if the applicable Commitment has
been terminated).

      (b) Effect; Effective Date. Upon (i) delivery to the Agent of an
assignment, together with any consents required by Section 11(a), and (ii)
payment of a $4,000 fee to the Agent for processing such assignment (unless such
fee is waived by the Agent), such assignment shall become effective on the
effective date specified in such assignment. The assignment shall contain a
representation by the Transferee to the effect that none of the consideration
used to make the purchase of the Commitment and Loans under the applicable
assignment agreement constitutes "plan assets" as defined under ERISA and that
the rights and interests of the Transferee in and under the Operative Documents
or the Property will not be "plan assets" under ERISA. On and after the
effective date of such assignment, such Transferee shall for all purposes be a
Lender party to this Agreement and any other Operative Document executed by or
on behalf of the Lenders and shall have all the rights and obligations of a
Lender under the Operative Documents, to the same extent as if it were an
original party hereto, and no further consent or action by the Lessee, the
Lenders or the Agent shall be required to release the transferor Lender with
respect to the percentage of the aggregate Commitments and Loans assigned to
such Transferee. Upon the consummation of any assignment to a Transferee
pursuant to this Section 11(b), the transferor Lender, the Agent and the Lessee
shall, if the transferor Lender or the Transferee desires that its Loans be
evidenced by Notes, make appropriate arrangements so that new Notes or, as
appropriate, replacement Notes are issued to such transferor Lender and new
Notes or, as appropriate, replacement Notes, are issued to such Transferee, in
each case in principal amounts reflecting their respective Commitments, as
adjusted pursuant to such assignment.

      (c) Rights of Transferees. Each of the Lessee and the Lessor acknowledges
and agrees that each Transferee, for purposes of Sections 13 and 14, shall be
considered a Lender; provided, however, that each of the Lessee and the Lessor
shall have no greater liability to any

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Transferee than it would have had to the applicable Lender, except as reflected
in amounts necessary to indemnify such Person on an After-Tax Basis.

      (d) Withholding Taxes; Disclosure of Information; Pledge Under Regulation
A(1). (1) If any Lender (or the assignee in any Note, each a "Transferee") is
organized under the laws of any jurisdiction other than the United States or any
State thereof, then such Participant or Transferee, as applicable, shall (as a
condition precedent to acquiring or participating in such Loan and so long as it
shall be legally entitled to an exemption from withholding as a continuing
obligation to the Lessor and the Lessee), furnish on a timely basis to the
Agent, the Lessor and the Lessee in duplicate, for each taxable year of such
Lender or Transferee during the Lease Term of the Master Lease, a properly
completed and executed copy of either Internal Revenue Service Form W-8ECI or
Internal Revenue Service Form W8-BEN or Internal Revenue Service Form W-9 and
any additional form (or such other form) as is necessary to claim complete
exemption from United States withholding taxes (wherein such Lender or
Transferee claims entitlement to complete exemption from United States
withholding taxes on all payments hereunder), and provide on a timely basis to
the Agent, the Lessor and the Lessee a new Internal Revenue Service Form W-8ECI
or Internal Revenue Service Form W-8BEN or Internal Revenue Service Form W-9 and
any such additional form (or any successor form or forms) upon the expiration or
obsolescence of any previously delivered form and comparable statements in
accordance with applicable United States laws and regulations and amendments
duly executed and completed by such Lender or Transferee, and to comply from
time to time with all applicable United States laws and regulations with regard
to such withholding tax exemption. By its acceptance of a participation or
assignment of a Lender's Note, each Transferee shall be deemed bound by the
provisions set forth in this Section 11.

                  (2) Subject to Section 6(c)(4) hereof (except in the case of
            disclosure of information in connection with Section 11(d)(3)
            below), any Lender may, in connection with any assignment or
            participation or proposed assignment or participation pursuant to
            this Section 11, disclose to the assignee or participant or proposed
            assignee or participant any information relating to the Lessee.

                  (3) Anything in this Section 11 to the contrary
            notwithstanding, any Lender may assign and pledge all or any portion
            of the Notes held by it to any Federal Reserve Bank, the United
            States Treasury or to any other financial institution as collateral
            security pursuant to Regulation A of the F.R.S. Board and any
            operating circular issued by the Federal Reserve System and/or the
            Federal Reserve Bank or otherwise.

SECTION 12. TRANSFERS OF CERTIFICATE HOLDERS' INTEREST.

      (a) Assignments. All or any part of the interest of any Certificate Holder
in, to or under this Participation Agreement, the other Operative Documents, the
Property or the Trust may be assigned or transferred by such Certificate Holder
at any time, subject to the consent of Lessee, which consent shall not be
unreasonably withheld, to (i) any Affiliate of such Certificate Holder, (ii) any
other Participant or any Affiliate of any such other Participant, or (iii) with
the consent of the Agent (such consent not to be unreasonably withheld), to any
other Person; provided, however, that (A) prior to a Lease Event of Default, no
interest shall be assigned to

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Lessee or any Affiliate of Lessee; (B) except as provided in (C) below, each
such assignment is in an amount equal to not less than twenty percent (20%) of
the sum of the aggregate amount of the Available Equity Commitments and the
outstanding Equity Amounts of all Certificate Holders (the "Permitted Equity
Assignment Amount"); (C) with respect to an assignment to a Lender or an
Affiliate of a Lender, each such assignment is in an amount equal to not less
than the product of (x) the sum of the Available Equity Commitment, if any, and
outstanding Equity Amounts of the assignor Certificate Holder and (y) the
fraction, expressed as a decimal, obtained by dividing the sum of the Available
Loan Commitments and outstanding principal amount of Loans of such Lender by the
sum of the aggregate amounts of the Available Loan Commitments and Loans of all
Lenders; and (D) in any event, and the assignor Certificate Holder retains an
interest equal to not less than the Permitted Equity Assignment Amount; and,
provided, further, that notice is given to the Owner Trustee and (A) each
assignment or transfer shall comply with all applicable securities laws; and (B)
the assignee, if it is not a Participant immediately prior to such assignment,
will deliver to the Agent a completed administrative questionnaire in form and
substance acceptable to the Agent. The Agent shall receive an administrative fee
of $4,000 from the applicable transferor or transferee in connection with any
assignment or participation under this Section 12. Each assignee or transferee
acknowledges that the obligations to be performed from and after the date of
such transfer or assignment under this Participation Agreement and all other
Operative Documents are its obligations, including the obligations imposed by
this Section 12(a) (and the transferor and transferee Participant shall deliver
to the Lessee and the Lessor an Assignment Agreement, in substantially the form
of Exhibit J-2, executed by the assignee or transferee) and further represents
and warrants to each Participant and the Lessee as set forth in Section 6 and
that:

            (i) it has a net worth or combined capital and surplus of not less
than four (4) times the Certificate Holder's Commitment;

            (ii) it has the requisite power and authority to accept such
assignment or transfer;

            (iii) it will not transfer any interest in the Trust unless the
proposed transferee makes the foregoing representations and covenants;

            (iv) it will not take any action with respect to such interest in
the Trust that would violate any applicable securities laws; and

            (v) it will not assign or transfer any interest in the Trust except
in compliance with this Section 12.

      (b) Rights of Transferees. Each of the Lessee and the Lessor acknowledges
and agrees that each Transferee, for purposes of Sections 13 and 14, shall be
considered a Certificate Holder; provided, however, that each of the Lessee and
the Lessor shall have no greater liability to any Transferee than it would have
had to the applicable Certificate Holder transferor, except as reflected in
amounts necessary to indemnify such Person on an After-Tax Basis.

      (c) Withholding Taxes; Disclosure of Information; Pledge Under Regulation
A(1) . (1) If any Certificate Holder (or the assignee of any Equity Amount, each
also a "Transferee") is

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organized under the laws of any jurisdiction other than the United States or any
State thereof, then such Participant or Transferee, as applicable, shall (as a
condition precedent to acquiring or participating in such Equity Amount and so
long as it shall be legally entitled to an exemption from withholding as a
continuing obligation to the Lessor and the Lessee), furnish on a timely basis
to the Agent, the Lessor and the Lessee in duplicate, for each taxable year of
such Certificate Holder or Transferee during the Lease Term of the Master Lease,
a properly completed and executed copy of either Internal Revenue Service Form
W-8ECI or Internal Revenue Service Form W-8BEN or Internal Revenue Service Form
W-9 and any additional form (or such other form) as is necessary to claim
complete exemption from United States withholding taxes (wherein such Lender,
the Lessor or Transferee claims entitlement to complete exemption from United
States withholding taxes on all payments hereunder), and provide on a timely
basis to the Agent, the Lessor and the Lessee a new Internal Revenue Service
Form W-8ECI or Internal Revenue Service Form W-8BEN or Internal Revenue Service
Form W-9 and any such additional form (or any successor form or forms) upon the
expiration or obsolescence of any previously delivered form and comparable
statements in accordance with applicable United States laws and regulations and
amendments duly executed and completed by such Certificate Holder or Transferee,
and to comply from time to time with all applicable United States laws and
regulations with regard to such withholding tax exemption. By its acceptance of
a participation or assignment of all or any portion of a Certificate Holder's
Equity Amounts, each Transferee shall be deemed bound by the provisions set
forth in this Section 12.

                  (2) Subject to Section 6(c)(4) hereof (except in the case of
            disclosure of information in connection with Section 12(c)(3)
            below), any Certificate Holder may, in connection with any
            assignment or participation or proposed assignment or participation
            pursuant to this Section 12, disclose to the assignee or participant
            or proposed assignee or participant any information relating to the
            Lessee.

                  (3) Anything in this Section 12 to the contrary
            notwithstanding, any Certificate Holder may assign and pledge all or
            any portion of its interest in the Trust held by it to any Federal
            Reserve Bank, the United States Treasury or to any other financial
            institution as collateral security pursuant to Regulation A of the
            F.R.S. Board and any operating circular issued by the Federal
            Reserve System and/or the Federal Reserve Bank or otherwise.

SECTION 13. GENERAL TAX INDEMNITY.

      (a) Tax Indemnitee Defined. For purposes of this Section 13, "Tax
Indemnitee" means (x) each Participant, the Lessor and the Affiliates of each of
the foregoing, and the Owner Trustee, both in its individual capacity and as
trustee, and each of their respective successors, assigns, servants, agents,
officers, directors and employees and the Trust Estate, and (y) except with
respect to any Taxes relating to a Site during the applicable Construction
Period for such Site, each Lender and its Affiliates, and each of their
respective successors, assigns, servants, agents, officers, directors and
employees.

      (b) Taxes Indemnified. The Lessee agrees to pay promptly when due, and
will indemnify and hold harmless each Tax Indemnitee on an After-Tax Basis
against, all taxes, fees, withholdings, and governmental charges attributable to
the transactions contemplated herein

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including all license, recording, documentary, registration, transfer taxes, and
other fees and all taxes (including, without limitation, income, adjusted gross
income, gross receipts, franchise, net worth, capital, sales, rental, use, value
added, property (tangible and intangible), ad valorem, excise and stamp taxes),
fees, levies, imposts, recording duties, charges, assessments or withholdings of
any nature whatsoever, together with any assessments, penalties, fines,
additions to tax or interest thereon (individually, a "Tax" and collectively
called "Taxes"), however imposed (whether imposed upon any Tax Indemnitee, the
Lessee, or all or any part of the Sites or any payment made in connection with
the transactions contemplated hereunder), by any Federal, state or local
government or taxing authority in the United States of America, or by any
government or taxing authority of a foreign country, of any political
subdivision or taxing authority thereof or by a territory or possession of the
United States of America or an international taxing authority, upon or with
respect to, based upon or measured by:

                  (1) the Sites or any part thereof;

                  (2) the location, replacement, conditioning, refinancing,
            control, purchase, repossession, improvement, maintenance,
            redelivery, manufacture, acquisition, purchase, ownership,
            acceptance, rejection, delivery, non-delivery, leasing, subleasing,
            transportation, insuring, inspection, registration, assembly,
            abandonment, preparation, installation, possession, use, operation,
            return, presence, storage, repair, transfer of title, modification,
            rebuilding, import, export, alteration, addition, replacement,
            assignment, overhaul, transfer or registration, imposition of any
            lien, sale or other disposition of the Sites or any part thereof or
            interest therein;

                  (3) the rentals, receipts or earnings arising from the
            Operative Documents or from the purchase, ownership, delivery,
            leasing, possession, use, operation, return, storage, transfer of
            title, sale or other disposition of the Sites or any part thereof;

                  (4) any or all of the Operative Documents or the Development
            Agreements;

                  (5) the income or other proceeds received with respect to the
            Sites, held by the Owner Trustee under the Trust Agreement; or

                  (6) otherwise with respect to or by reason of the transactions
            described in or contemplated by the Operative Documents.

      (c) Taxes Excluded. The indemnity provided for in paragraph 13(b) above
shall not extend to any of the following (in each case, except in the case of
Taxes otherwise indemnifiable under the Operative Documents, additional amounts
necessary to indemnify a Tax Indemnitee for such Taxes on an After-Tax Basis):

                  (1) Federal income taxes;

                  (2) in the case of each Tax Indemnitee which is a Lender, (i)
            net income taxes and (ii) other taxes that would not have been
            incurred but for such Indemnitee or a person related thereto being
            organized in the jurisdiction

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            imposing such taxes or conducting activities therein that are
            unrelated to the Overall Transaction;

                  (3) in the case of each Certificate Holder, (i) net income
            taxes other than net income taxes imposed by jurisdictions in which
            such Indemnitee is not otherwise subject to such taxes to the extent
            such net income taxes exceed the net income taxes that would have
            been payable if such jurisdiction had treated the Master Lease as a
            secured loan consistent with the parties' intention and (ii) other
            taxes that would not have been incurred but for such Indemnitee or a
            person related thereto being organized in the jurisdiction imposing
            such taxes or conducting activities therein that are unrelated to
            the contemplated transactions;

                  (4) in the case of the Lessor, income, franchise, conduct of
            business or similar taxes that are imposed on the Lessor and not the
            Certificate Holders and that, if imposed on the Certificate Holders,
            would not have been indemnified against;

                  (5) Taxes imposed on or measured by the net or gross income,
            excess profits, receipts, minimum or alternative minimum taxable
            income, capital, net worth, tax preferences, accumulated earnings or
            capital gains of a Tax Indemnitee or that are conduct of business,
            doing business or franchise Taxes of such Tax Indemnitee (other than
            any Taxes which are, or are in the nature of, sales, use, value
            added, transfer, excise, rental, license, ad valorem or property
            Taxes imposed by reason of the location, use, operation or presence
            of a Site or any part thereof or a Person which is the Lessee, any
            sublessee, any sub-sublessee, assignee or any other Person using
            through any of the foregoing (including any Affiliate of any of the
            foregoing, but excluding the Lessor, any Participant or any
            Affiliate of any such excluded Person) (each, a "Lessee Person") in
            such jurisdiction or the fact that any payment by a Lessee Person
            contemplated by the Operative Documents is made from such
            jurisdiction) ("Income Taxes") imposed by the United States or any
            state or local government or taxing authority within the United
            States; provided, however, provisions of this clause (5) relating to
            Income Taxes shall not exclude from the indemnity described in this
            Section 13 any state or local Income Taxes imposed by reason of the
            location, use, operation or presence of any Improvement or any part
            thereof in any state in which a Site is located, other than any
            state which such Tax Indemnitee agrees in writing (on or prior to
            the Improvements becoming subject to the Operative Documents) is
            excluded from the indemnity otherwise implied by the proviso to this
            clause 5;

                  (6) Taxes arising out of or measured by acts, omissions,
            events or periods of time (or any combination of the foregoing)
            which occur after (and are not attributable to acts, omissions or
            events occurring contemporaneously with or prior to) the payment in
            full of all amounts payable by the Lessee pursuant to and in
            accordance with the Operative Documents, or the earlier discharge in
            full of the Lessee's payment obligations under and in accordance
            with the Master Lease and the other Operative Documents, and the
            earliest of (x) the expiration of the Lease Term and return of the
            Sites in accordance with the return provisions of the

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            Master Lease, (y) the termination of the Master Lease in accordance
            with the applicable provisions of the Master Lease and return or
            disposition of the Sites in accordance with the Master Lease, or (z)
            the termination of the Master Lease in accordance with the
            applicable provisions of the Master Lease and the transfer of all
            right, title and interest in the Sites to the Lessee pursuant to its
            exercise of any of its purchase options (other than sales or other
            transfer taxes as imposed thereon) except that, notwithstanding
            anything to the contrary, Taxes incurred in connection with the
            exercise of any remedies following the occurrence of a Lease Event
            to Default shall not be excluded from the indemnity;

                  (7) Taxes imposed on a Tax Indemnitee that would not have been
            imposed but for the willful misconduct or gross negligence of any
            Tax Indemnitee (other than gross negligence or willful misconduct
            not actually committed by but instead imputed to, such Indemnitee by
            reason of such Tax Indemnitee's participation in the transactions
            and entering into the Operative Documents) or the breach by any Tax
            Indemnitee of any representation, warranty or covenant set forth in
            the Operative Documents;

                  (8) Taxes imposed on a Tax Indemnitee which became payable by
            reason of any transfer or disposition by such Tax Indemnitee of any
            interest in some or all of the Sites, the Operative Documents, any
            other Tax Indemnitee or the Trust Estate other than (A) Taxes that
            result from transfers or dispositions which occur while a Lease
            Event of Default has occurred and is continuing or (B) Taxes that
            result from any transfer or disposition pursuant to the terms of the
            Master Lease (other than Section 19(b) thereof if clause (A) of this
            Section 13(c)(8) is not applicable);

                  (9) Taxes imposed upon the Owner Trustee with respect to any
            trustee's fees for services rendered in its capacity as trustee;

                  (10) Taxes that have been included in Property Cost or
            Transaction Expenses; and

                  (11) If Lessee cannot under Applicable Law pay any Taxes
            directly on behalf of a Tax Indemnitee, the failure of such Tax
            Indemnitee to pay such Taxes for which the Lessee has timely
            advanced the funds to such Tax Indemnitee to pay such Taxes.

Notwithstanding any of the exclusions otherwise set forth in Section 13(c)(1)
through (10), the indemnity set forth in Section 13(b) shall apply to any
Illinois franchise taxes imposed on or with respect to the Lessor if:

      (a)   the Lessor is a Delaware business trust and (i) files its relevant
            Illinois tax returns and reports in a manner consistent with such
            status or (ii) files its relevant Illinois tax returns and reports
            in a manner inconsistent with such status as the result of, or in
            response to, any act, omission or breach of any representation,
            warranty or covenant of a Lessee Person;

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      (b)   any Lessee Person prepares or files a Filing (within the meaning of
            Section 13(g) pursuant to Section 13(g)) in a manner inconsistent
            with the status of the Lessor as a Delaware business trust; or

      (c)   the Lessor changes its status from that of a Delaware business trust
            as the result of, or in response to, any act, omission or breach of
            any representation, warranty or covenant of a Lessee Person or in
            connection with the exercise of any remedies following the
            occurrence of a Lease Event of Default.

      (d)   Payments to the Lessee.

                  (1) If any Tax Indemnitee or any Affiliate of any Tax
            Indemnitee actually shall realize a Tax benefit (whether by way of
            deduction, credit, allocation or apportionment or otherwise) with
            respect to a Tax not indemnifiable hereunder which would not have
            been realized but for any Tax with respect to which Lessee has
            reimbursed or indemnified such Tax Indemnitee on an After-Tax Basis
            pursuant to the Operative Documents, which benefit was not
            previously taken into account in determining the amount of the
            Lessee's payment to such Tax Indemnitee, such Tax Indemnitee shall
            pay to the Lessee, on an After-Tax Basis, an amount equal to the
            amount of such Tax benefit; provided, however, that no payment shall
            be made as long as a Payment Default or a Lease Event of Default is
            continuing; provided further, however, that no Tax Indemnitee shall
            be required to pay to the Lessee any Tax benefit to the extent such
            payment is greater than the amount of such Taxes in respect of which
            the reimbursement or indemnification was paid by Lessee, reduced by
            all prior payments by such Tax Indemnitee under this Section 13(d)
            in respect of such amount; any payment to the Lessee which is so
            limited shall, to the extent of such unpaid excess, be carried over
            and shall be available to offset any future obligations of the
            Lessee under this Section 13). If such repaid Tax benefit is
            thereafter lost, the additional Tax payable shall be treated as a
            Tax indemnifiable hereunder without regard to the exclusions set
            forth in Section 13.

                  (2) Upon receipt by a Tax Indemnitee of a refund or credit of
            all or part of any Taxes paid or indemnified against by the Lessee,
            which refund or credit was not previously taken into account in
            determining the amount of the Lessee's payment to such Tax
            Indemnitee, such Tax Indemnitee shall pay to the Lessee, on an
            After-Tax Basis, an amount equal to the amount of such refund, plus
            any interest received by or credited to such Tax Indemnitee with
            respect to such refund; provided, however, that no such payment
            shall be made as long as a Payment Default or a Lease Event of
            Default is continuing.

                  (3) The Tax Indemnitee will, at the Lessee's expense, pursue
            refunds and tax benefits that would result in any such payments to
            the Lessee, but only if the Tax Indemnitee has been notified in
            writing by the Lessee that such refunds or tax benefits are
            available.

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      (e) Procedures. Any amount payable to a Tax Indemnitee pursuant to
paragraph 13(b) shall be paid within thirty (30) days after receipt of a written
demand therefor from such Tax Indemnitee accompanied by a written statement
describing in reasonable detail the basis for such indemnity and the computation
of the amount so payable, provided, however, that such amount need not be paid
prior to the later of (i) the date on which such Taxes are due or (ii) in the
case of amounts which are being contested pursuant to paragraph 13(f) hereof,
the time such contest (including all appeals permitted hereunder) is finally
resolved; provided, further, that with respect to Taxes of a recurring nature,
the Tax Indemnitee shall only be required to provide one such written notice.
Any amount payable to the Lessee pursuant to paragraph 13(d) shall be paid
within thirty (30) days of the day on which a return (including estimated tax
returns) is filed reflecting such Tax benefit or promptly after the Tax
Indemnitee actually receives a refund giving rise to a payment under paragraph
13(d), and shall be accompanied by a written statement by the Tax Indemnitee
setting forth in reasonable detail the basis for computing the amount of such
payment. Within thirty (30) days following the Lessee's receipt of any
computation from the Tax Indemnitee, the Lessee may request that an accounting
firm reasonably acceptable to the Tax Indemnitee determine whether such
computations of the Tax Indemnitee are correct. Such accounting firm shall be
requested to make the determination contemplated by this paragraph 13(e) within
thirty (30) days of its selection. In the event such accounting firm shall
determine that such computations are incorrect, such firm shall determine what
it believes to be the correct computations. The Tax Indemnitee shall cooperate
with such accounting firm and supply it with all information necessary to permit
it to accomplish such determination (which information shall be held by such
firm in confidence). The computations of such accounting firm shall be final,
binding and conclusive upon the parties and the Lessee shall have no right to
inspect the books, records or tax returns of the Tax Indemnitee (or the
information supplied by the Tax Indemnitee to the accounting firm) to verify
such computation or for any other purpose. All fees and expenses of the
accounting firm payable under this Section 13(e) shall be borne by the Lessee,
except that if such accounting firm's computation shall result in a decrease in
the amount due from, or an increase in the amount payable to, the Lessee by more
than the greater of 5% or $10,000, then the Tax Indemnitee shall bear the cost
of such accounting firm.

      (f) Contest. If any claim shall be made against any Tax Indemnitee or if
any proceeding shall be commenced against any Tax Indemnitee (including a
written notice of such proceeding) for any Tax as to which the Lessee may have
an indemnity obligation hereunder, or if any Tax Indemnitee shall determine that
any Tax as to which the Lessee may have an indemnity obligation hereunder may be
payable, such Tax Indemnitee shall promptly notify the Lessee in writing and
shall not take any action with respect to such claim, proceeding or Tax without
the consent of the Lessee for thirty (30) days after receipt of such notice by
the Lessee unless the failure to take action could result in the imposition of
penalties or fines or material danger of sale, forfeiture or loss of, or the
creation of any Lien on, the Sites or any portion thereof or interest therein;
provided, however, that any failure to provide such notice shall not relieve the
Lessee of any obligation to indemnify any Tax Indemnitee hereunder unless the
contest is precluded as a result of such failure and such failure arises out of
or is caused by the misconduct or negligence (excluding imputed negligence) of
such Tax Indemnitee; provided, further, however, that if such Tax Indemnitee
shall be required by law or regulation to take action with respect to any such
claim, proceeding or Tax prior to the end of such thirty (30) day period such
Tax Indemnitee shall, in such notice to the Lessee, so inform the Lessee and
such Tax Indemnitee shall not take any action with respect to such claim,
proceeding or Tax without

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the consent of the Lessee before the date on which such Tax Indemnitee shall be
required to take action. If, within thirty (30) days after its receipt of such
notice (or such shorter period referred to in the preceding sentence), the
Lessee shall request in writing that such Tax Indemnitee contest the imposition
of such Tax, the Tax Indemnitee shall, at the expense of the Lessee, in good
faith contest (including by pursuit of appeals, excluding any requirement to
appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court), and shall not settle without the Lessee's
consent (such consent not to be unreasonably withheld), or if such contest can
be pursued independently from any other proceeding involving a Tax liability of
such Tax Indemnitee (a "Lessee-Controlled Contest"), the Tax Indemnitee shall
allow the Lessee to contest the validity, applicability or amount of such Tax
(other than withholding or net income Taxes indemnifiable hereunder) by, in the
sole discretion of the Person conducting such contest:

                  (1) resisting payment thereof;

                  (2) not paying the same except under protest, if protest shall
            be necessary and proper; or

                  (3) if payment shall be made, using reasonable efforts to
            obtain a refund thereof in appropriate administrative and judicial
            proceedings;

      provided, however, that in no event shall such Tax Indemnitee be required
      to contest (or permit the Lessee to contest) the imposition of any Tax for
      which the Lessee may be obligated unless: (t) if a Payment Default or a
      Lease Event of a Default shall have occurred and be continuing, Lessee
      shall either (I) provide security for such tax indemnity obligations that
      is reasonably acceptable to such Tax Indemnitee or (II) pay such Tax, (u)
      in the case of net income Taxes indemnifiable hereunder, the amount of the
      claim and all future related claims exceeds $25,000, (v) in the case of
      net income and non-U.S. withholding Taxes indemnifiable hereunder, the
      Lessee shall have delivered to the Certificate Holders an opinion of tax
      counsel chosen by, and reasonably acceptable to, the Certificate Holders
      to the effect that there is substantial authority to contest such claim,
      (w) the Lessee shall have acknowledged in writing its liability hereunder
      if the contest is unsuccessful, (x) the Lessee shall have agreed to pay
      such Tax Indemnitee all costs and expenses that such Tax Indemnitee shall
      incur in connection with contesting such claim (including all reasonable
      legal and accounting fees and disbursements and internally allocated time
      charges), (y) the Certificate Holders shall have reasonably determined
      that action to be taken will not result in any material danger of sale,
      forfeiture or loss of the Sites or any portion thereof or interest therein
      and (z) if such contest shall involve payment of the claim, the Lessee
      shall advance the amount thereof, plus interest, penalties and additions
      to Tax with respect thereto, to such Tax Indemnitee on an interest-free
      basis and on an After-Tax Basis to such Tax Indemnitee. The Tax Indemnitee
      shall consult in good faith with the Lessee regarding the conduct of any
      contest controlled by such Tax Indemnitee and shall allow the Lessee to
      attend all hearings at which unrelated issues are not discussed and to
      comment upon all related submissions in such Tax Indemnitee-controlled
      contests and vice versa. Notwithstanding the above, if Lessee has
      reasonably withheld its consent to settlement, a Tax Indemnitee may settle
      and will not be required to contest the imposition of any Taxes if such
      Tax Indemnitee shall waive its right to indemnity with respect to such
      Taxes and shall have

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      paid to the Lessee any and all funds paid by the Lessee to such Tax
      Indemnitee with regard to such contested amount (other than those
      described in clause (x) of this Section 13(f)) plus any interest which the
      Lessee paid on such funds. Any contest by the Lessee or at the Lessee's
      request shall be subject to the following requirements: (i) such contest
      shall be conducted in good faith by appropriate proceedings which have the
      effect of staying the enforcement of the lien for such Taxes and the sale,
      forfeiture or other loss of the applicable Site during the pendency of
      such contest, (ii) none of the Lessor, the Owner Trustee, the Agent and
      the Participants shall be subject to any risk of criminal liability or
      material civil liability by virtue of the matters being contested or such
      proceedings, and (iii) the Lessee, in accordance with prudent practice,
      has set aside adequate reserves for the payment thereof and has provided
      evidence reasonably acceptable to the Agent, the Lessor and the
      Participants of such reserves.

      (g) Reports. In the event any report, return or statement or any
certification or procedure (a "Filing") with respect to Taxes is required to be
made with respect to any Tax that may be subject to indemnification under this
Section 13, the Lessee will, at the Lessee's expense, either prepare and file
such Filing (and in the case of any Filing which is required to be filed on the
basis of individual Sites, such Filing shall be prepared and filed in such
manner as to show as required the interests of each Tax Indemnitee in such
Sites) or, if it shall not be permitted to file the same, it will notify each
Tax Indemnitee of such reporting requirements, prepare such Filing in such
manner as shall be reasonably satisfactory to each Tax Indemnitee and deliver
the same to each Tax Indemnitee within a reasonable period prior to the date the
same is to be filed; provided, however, that the relevant Tax Indemnitees shall
have furnished the Lessee, at the Lessee's request and expense, within a
reasonable time, with such information, not within the control of (nor
reasonably available to) the Lessee, in such Tax Indemnitee's control (or which
is reasonably available to such Tax Indemnitee) and is necessary to complete
such Filing.

      (h) Non-Parties. If a Tax Indemnitee is not a party to this Participation
Agreement, Lessee may require the Tax Indemnitee to agree in writing, in a form
reasonably acceptable to Lessee, to the terms of this Section 13 prior to making
any payment to such Tax Indemnitee under this Section 13.

      (i) Survival. The provisions of this Section 13 shall continue in full
force and effect, notwithstanding the expiration or termination of any Operative
Document, until all obligations hereunder have been met and all liabilities
hereunder paid in full.

      (j) Construction Period. Notwithstanding the foregoing, during the
Construction Period, (i) the Lessor, in lieu of the Lessee, shall indemnify all
Lender Indemnitees under this Section 13, to the same extent that the Lessee is
obligated to so indemnify such parties absent the provisions of this subsection
(j), (ii) the Lessee will indemnify the Lessor for all obligations of the Lessor
under this subsection (j), and (iii) the Lessor hereby assigns to each of the
Lender Indemnitees the Lessor's right to indemnification by the Lessee under
this subsection (j) to the extent of any claim by the respective Lender
Indemnitee under this Section 13. Any indemnification by the Lessor shall be
subject to all of the provisions of this Section 13 to the same extent as
applicable to indemnification by the Lessee under this Section 13.

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SECTION 14. GENERAL INDEMNITY.

      (a) Indemnification. The Lessee does hereby assume liability for, and does
hereby agree to indemnify, defend, protect, save and keep harmless, on an
After-Tax Basis, each Indemnified Person from and against any and all
liabilities, obligations, losses, damages, penalties, claims (including, without
limitation, claims involving strict or absolute liability in tort, warranty
claims, claims based on negligence, products liability or statutory liability or
claims for enforcement, cleanup, removal, response, remedial or other actions or
damages, contribution, indemnification, cost recovery, compensation or
injunctive relief pursuant to any Environmental Law or alleged injury or threat
of injury, to health, safety, the environment or natural resources), actions,
suits, costs, expenses (including transfer taxes) and disbursements (including,
without limitation, reasonable legal fees and expenses and Owner Trustee's
Expenses) of any kind and nature whatsoever (all of the foregoing being referred
to as Claims) which may be imposed on, incurred by or asserted against such
Indemnified Person, whether or not such Indemnified Person shall also be
indemnified as to any such Claim by any other Person, in any way relating to or
arising out of:

                  (1) this Participation Agreement or any other Operative
            Document, or any document contemplated hereby or thereby; or the
            execution, delivery or performance or non-performance or enforcement
            of any of the terms of this Participation Agreement or any other
            Operative Document by the Lessee, the Owner Trustee or the
            Participants or any other Person;

                  (2) the Sites or any part thereof or the purchase,
            manufacture, design, financing, refinancing, construction,
            acceptance, rejection, ownership, management, acquisition, delivery,
            non-delivery, occupancy, lease, ground lease, sublease, rental,
            preparation, inspection, installation, modification, substitution,
            possession, use, non-use, operation, maintenance, condition,
            registration, repair, transportation, transfer of title, any action
            taken by Lessee or requested by Lessee under Section 8(d) of the
            Master Lease, abandonment, rental, importation, exportation, sale
            (including, without limitation, any sale pursuant to the Master
            Lease), retirement, return, storage or other disposition of the
            Sites or any part thereof or any accident in connection therewith
            (including, without limitation, latent and other defects, whether or
            not discoverable, whether preexisting or not and any Claim for
            patent, trademark or copyright infringement) or the failure of any
            Site to be located wholly within the land related thereto;

                  (3) the Development Agreements;

                  (4) the performance of any labor or services or the furnishing
            of any materials or other property in respect of the Sites or any
            part thereof by or on behalf of or with the knowledge of the Lessee
            or any Affiliate;

                  (5) any negligence or tortious acts on the part of the Lessee
            or any Affiliate or any agents, contractors, sublessee, franchisees,
            licensees or invitees thereof;

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                  (6) any alterations, changes, modifications, new construction
            or demolition of any of the Sites or any part thereof;

                  (7) any violation of law by the Lessee, any sublessee of
            Lessee or any Affiliate of the Lessee or any such sublessee; or any
            breach of any covenant, warranty or representation in any Operative
            Document by the Lessee or any certificate required to be delivered
            pursuant to any Operative Document by the Lessee or any Affiliate;

                  (8) the offer, issue, sale, purchase or delivery of any
            interest in the Trust Estate (including the trust certificates) or
            the Trust Agreement or any similar interest or in any way resulting
            from or arising out of the Trust Agreement and the Trust Estate
            (including Claims arising under or resulting from applicable
            Federal, state or foreign securities laws or common law);

                  (9) the imposition of any Lien on any of the Sites (other than
            Permitted Liens or Lessor Liens) or the enforcement of any
            agreement, restriction or legal requirement affecting any of the
            Sites;

                  (10) a disposition of the Sites or any part thereof in
            connection with a termination of the Master Lease pursuant to
            Sections 11 or 16 of the Master Lease;

                  (11) the transactions contemplated by the Master Lease or by
            any other Operative Document, in respect of the application of Parts
            4 and 5 of Subtitle B of Title I of ERISA and any prohibited
            transaction described in Section 4975(c) of the Code; or

                  (12) the presence, Release or threat of Release into the
            environment of any Hazardous Substances; the presence on or under
            any Sites of any Hazardous Substances, or any Releases, threats of
            Release or discharges of any Hazardous Substances on, under or from
            any Sites, irrespective of when such presence, Release, threat of
            Release or discharge of Hazardous Substances occurred or originated;
            any activity carried on or undertaken on or off any Sites in
            connection with the handling, treatment, removal, storage,
            decontamination, clean-up, transport or disposal of any Hazardous
            Substances (including, without limitation, from any corrective
            action plan and the development and implementation thereof); any
            residual contamination on, under or from any Sites and affecting any
            natural resources or any property of others; in any and all such
            circumstances irrespective of whether any of such activities were
            undertaken in accordance with Applicable Law, or whether claims with
            respect thereto are made pursuant to Environmental Law.

      DURING THE LEASE TERM OF ANY SITES, THE LESSEE AGREES THAT NEITHER THE
      CERTIFICATE HOLDERS NOR THE OWNER TRUSTEE (INCLUDING WILMINGTON TRUST
      COMPANY, INDIVIDUALLY) SHALL BE LIABLE TO THE LESSEE FOR ANY CLAIM CAUSED
      DIRECTLY OR

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      INDIRECTLY BY THE INADEQUACY OF SUCH SITES OR ANY PART THEREOF FOR ANY
      PURPOSE OR ANY DEFICIENCY OR DEFECT THEREIN OR ANY FAILURE OF TITLE WITH
      RESPECT THERETO (OTHER THAN BY VIRTUE OF LESSOR LIENS OR THE GROSS
      NEGLIGENCE OR WILLFUL MISCONDUCT OF THE CERTIFICATE HOLDERS OR THE OWNER
      TRUSTEE) OR THE USE OR MAINTENANCE THEREOF OR ANY REPAIRS, SERVICING OR
      ADJUSTMENTS THERETO OR ANY DELAY IN PROVIDING OR FAILURE TO PROVIDE ANY
      THEREOF OR ANY INTERRUPTION OR LOSS OF SERVICE OR USE THEREOF OR ANY LOSS
      OF BUSINESS, ALL OF WHICH SHALL BE THE RISK AND RESPONSIBILITY OF THE
      LESSEE.

      (b) Survival. Unless otherwise expressly provided in the Operative
Documents, the obligations, agreements, rights and liabilities of the Lessee,
the Owner Trustee and each Indemnified Person arising under this Section shall
continue in full force and effect, notwithstanding the expiration or other
termination of the Master Lease or this Participation Agreement. Until all
obligations have been met, all liabilities arising under this Section 14 shall
be enforceable by the Lessee, the Owner Trustee and each Indemnified Person and
their successors, assigns and agents.

      (c) Certain Exceptions. Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Lessee shall
not assume liability for or indemnify, defend, protect, save and keep harmless
pursuant to Section 14(a) hereof (i) any Indemnified Person from and against any
Claims to the extent arising out of any act, occurrence or omission (other than
(x) an act or omission of, or an occurrence caused by, or attributable to, the
Lessee or (y) for any Site, if the Lessee shall duly exercise and consummate the
Sale Option with respect to such Site, occurring during or attributable to any
period ending on or before the consummation of such Sale Option) on, under, in
or from any Site after the Return Date with respect to such Site; (ii) any
Indemnified Person for any Claim that is a Tax or a loss of Tax benefits or the
costs and expenses of contesting any Tax or loss of tax benefits, except to
provide indemnification under this Section 14 on an After-Tax Basis; (iii) any
Indemnified Person for any Claim to the extent it results from any failure on
the part of such Indemnified Person to comply with any representation, warranty,
agreement or covenant of such Indemnified Person in favor of the Lessee in any
Operative Document except to the extent such failure to comply resulted from any
default by the Lessee under any Operative Document; provided, however, that the
failure of any Indemnified Person to comply with any such representation,
warranty, agreement or covenant shall not affect the rights of any other
Indemnified Person hereunder; (iv) any Indemnified Person for any Claim to the
extent a court of competent jurisdiction shall have determined that such Claim
results from acts which would constitute the willful misconduct or gross
negligence (or, in the case of an Indemnified Person operating the business
conducted at such Site, negligence) of such Indemnified Person or a related
Indemnified Person (it being agreed that for purposes of this clause (iv) the
Owner Trustee shall be deemed a related Indemnified Person of the Certificate
Holders only to the extent it acts on the written instructions of the
Certificate Holders); provided that: (A) negligence or gross negligence or
willful misconduct will not be imputed to such Indemnified Person, the
Certificate Holders or any related Indemnified Person solely as a result of the
Owner Trustee's ownership of or ground leasehold interest in Sites; (B) the
willful misconduct or gross negligence of an Indemnified Person shall not affect
the rights of any other Indemnified Person

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hereunder; and (C) with respect to the Owner Trustee, it shall not constitute
willful misconduct or gross negligence of Wilmington Trust Company to rely on
the written instructions of the Certificate Holders; or (v) a transfer of the
Trust Estate by Certificate Holders or Owner Trustee (other than to Lessee or an
Affiliate of Lessee or as the result of or during a Lease Event of Default or an
Event of Loss).

      The indemnities set forth in this Section shall not constitute a
guarantee, representation or warranty to any Indemnified Person of or as to the
value or useful life of any Site.

      (d) Claims Procedure. An Indemnified Person shall, after obtaining actual
knowledge thereof, promptly notify Lessee of any Claim as to which
indemnification is sought (unless Lessee theretofore has notified such
Indemnified Person of such Claim); provided, however, that the failure to give
such notice shall not release Lessee from any of its obligations under this
Section 14, except to the extent that failure to give notice of any action, suit
or proceeding against such Indemnified Person is shown to increase Lessee's
liability under such Claim from that which would have existed if the failure to
give notice had not occurred. Subject to the following paragraph, Lessee agrees
to defend such Claim and shall at its sole cost and expense be entitled to
control, and shall assume full responsibility for, the defense of such Claim;
provided, however, that Lessee shall keep the Indemnified Person that is the
subject of such proceeding fully apprised of the status of such proceeding and
shall provide such Indemnified Person with all information with respect to such
proceeding as such Indemnified Person reasonably requests; and provided,
further, that in the event Lessee fails to defend such Claim, Lessee shall pay
the reasonable costs and expenses (including reasonable legal fees and expenses)
of the Indemnified Person in defending such Claim.

      Notwithstanding any of the foregoing to the contrary, Lessee shall not be
entitled to control and assume responsibility for the defense of such Claim if
(1) a Lease Default or Lease Event of Default exists, and the Indemnified Person
notifies Lessee that it is no longer permitted to control the defense of such
Claim, (2) such proceeding involves any material danger of the sale, forfeiture
or loss of, or the creation of any Lien (other than any Permitted Lien) on, any
Site, (3) the amounts involved, in the good faith opinion of such Indemnified
Person, are likely to have a materially adverse effect on the business of such
Indemnified Person other than the ownership, leasing and financing of the Sites,
(4) in the good faith opinion of such Indemnified Person, there exists an actual
or potential conflict of interest such that it is advisable for such Indemnified
Person to retain control of such proceeding or (5) such Claim or liability
involves the possibility of criminal actions or liability to such Indemnified
Person. In the circumstances described in clauses (1) through (5), the
Indemnified Person shall be entitled to control and assume responsibility for
the defense of such Claim or liability at the expense of Lessee. In addition,
any Indemnified Person, at its own expense, may (A) participate in any
proceeding controlled by Lessee pursuant to this Section 14(d) and (B) employ
separate counsel. Lessee may in any event participate in all such proceedings at
its own cost. Nothing contained in this Section 14(d) shall be deemed to require
an Indemnified Person to contest any Claim or to assume responsibility for or
control of any judicial proceeding with respect thereto.

      (e) Subrogation. If a Claim indemnified by Lessee under this Section 14 is
paid in full by Lessee and/or an insurer under a policy of insurance maintained
by Lessee, or if payment of the Claim has otherwise been provided for in full in
a manner reasonably satisfactory to the

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Indemnified Person, Lessee and/or such insurer, as the case may be, shall be
subrogated to the extent of such payment (or provision) to the rights and
remedies of the Indemnified Person (other than under insurance policies
maintained by such Indemnified Person) on whose behalf such Claim was paid (or
provided for) with respect to the act or event giving rise to such Claim. So
long as no Payment Default and no Lease Event of Default exists, if an
Indemnified Person receives any refund, in whole or in part, with respect to any
Claim paid by Lessee hereunder, it shall promptly pay over the amount refunded
(but not in excess of the amount Lessee or any of its insurers has paid in
respect of such Claim paid or payable by such Indemnified Person on account of
such refund) to Lessee; provided, however, if any Payment Default or Lease Event
of Default exists, any such refund shall be retained by, or paid over to, the
Lessor to be held and applied against amounts payable by the Lessee hereunder
and under the other Operative Documents.

      (f) Insured Claims. In the case of any Claim indemnified by the Lessee
hereunder which is covered by a policy of insurance maintained by or for the
benefit of the Lessee, each Indemnified Person agrees to cooperate, at the
expense of the Lessee, with the insurers in the exercise of their rights to
investigate, defend or compromise such Claim as may be required to retain the
benefits of such insurance with respect to such Claim (but the failure to do so
shall not relieve the Lessee of its obligation to indemnify such Indemnified
Person except to the extent that the Lessee or its insurer is materially
prejudiced as a result of such failure).

      (g) Waiver of Certain Claims. Lessee hereby waives and releases any Claim
now or hereafter existing against any Indemnified Person out of death or
personal injury to personnel of Lessee (including its directors, officers,
employees, agents and servants), loss or damage to property of Lessee or its
Affiliates, of the loss of use of any property of Lessee or its Affiliates,
which may result from or arise out of the condition, use or operation of the
Sites during the Lease Term and the Renewal Term, if any, including, without
limitation, any latent or patent defect whether or not discoverable.

      (h) Consent. Unless an Event of Default shall have occurred and be
continuing, no Indemnified Person shall enter into any settlement or other
compromise with respect to any Claim which is entitled to be indemnified under
this Section 14 without the prior written consent of the Lessee, which consent
shall not be unreasonably withheld, unless such Indemnified Person waives its
right to be indemnified under this Section 14 with respect to such Claim.

      (i) Construction Period. Notwithstanding the foregoing, during the
Construction Period, (i) the Lessor, in lieu of the Lessee, shall indemnify all
Lender Indemnitees under this Section 14, to the same extent that the Lessee is
obligated to so indemnify such parties absent the provisions of this subsection
(i), (ii) the Lessee will indemnify the Lessor for all obligations of the Lessor
under this subsection (i), and (iii) the Lessor hereby assigns to each of the
Lender Indemnitees the Lessor's right to indemnification by the Lessee under
this subsection (i) to the extent of any claim by the respective Lender
Indemnitee under this Section 14. Any indemnification by the Lessor shall be
subject to all of the provisions of this Section 14 to the same extent as
applicable to indemnification by the Lessee under this Section 14.

SECTION 15. TRANSACTION EXPENSES.

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      The Lessee agrees, for the benefit of the Lessor, the Certificate Holders
and the Lenders, that:

      (a) Transaction Expenses.

                  (1) The Lessee shall pay, or cause to be paid, from time to
            time all Transaction Expenses in respect of the transactions on the
            Documentation Date, each Site Acquisition Date and each Funding
            Date; provided, however, that if the Lessee has not received written
            invoices therefor at least five (5) Business Days prior to such
            date, such Transaction Expenses shall be paid within thirty (30)
            days after the Lessee has received written invoices therefor.
            Transaction Expenses may, subject to the conditions hereof
            (including without limitation the last sentence of Section 3(a)(1)),
            be paid with the proceeds of an Advance.

                  (2) The Lessee shall pay or cause to be paid all Transaction
            Expenses incurred by the Agent, the Lessor, any Lender or any
            Certificate Holder in entering into any future amendments or
            supplements with respect to any of the Operative Documents, whether
            or not such amendments or supplements are ultimately entered into,
            or giving or withholding of waivers or consents hereto or thereto or
            review of any matter (including, without limitation, the Development
            Agreements), in each case which have been requested by or approved
            by the Lessee, all Transaction Expenses incurred by the Lessee, the
            Lessor, the Agent, the Lenders or the Certificate Holders in
            connection with any purchase of the Property by the Lessee or other
            Person pursuant to Section 6 of the Master Lease and all Transaction
            Expenses incurred by any of the other parties hereto in respect of
            enforcement of any of their rights or remedies against the Lessee or
            any Affiliate of the Lessee in respect of the Operative Documents.

      (b) Brokers' Fees and Stamp Taxes. The Lessee shall pay or cause to be
paid any brokers' fees (other than brokers' fees that are payable solely as a
result of any Participant's breach of the representation set forth in Section
6(a)(vii)) and any and all stamp, transfer and other similar taxes, fees and
excises, if any, including any interest and penalties, which are payable in
connection with the transactions contemplated by this Participation Agreement
and the other Operative Documents.

      (c) Loan Agreement and Related Obligations. Except as provided in the last
sentence of Section 15(a)(1), the Lessee shall pay, before the delinquency date
thereof, all costs, expenses and other amounts (other than principal and
interest on the Loans which are payable to the extent otherwise required by the
Operative Documents) required to be paid by the Lessor under the Loan Agreement,
the Lender Mortgage, the Assignment of Leases and Rents and the Construction
Agency Agreement Assignment.

SECTION 16. CONSENT TO JURISDICTION.

      Lessee, Certificate Holders and Lessor hereby irrevocably each (i) agree
that any legal or equitable action, suit or proceeding against the Lessee
arising out of or relating to this Participation Agreement or any other
Operative Document or any transaction contemplated

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hereby or thereby or the subject matter of any of the foregoing may be
instituted in any state court of competent jurisdiction in the State of Illinois
or Federal court in the Northern District of Illinois, (ii) to the extent
permitted by Applicable Law, waives any objection which it may now or hereafter
have to the venue of any such action, suit or proceeding, including, without
limitation, inconvenient forum and (iii) submits itself to the jurisdiction of
any state court of competent jurisdiction in the State of Illinois or Federal
court in the Northern District of Illinois for purposes of any such action, suit
or proceeding. Nothing contained in this Section shall be deemed to affect the
rights of the Certificate Holders or the Owner Trustee to serve process in any
other manner permitted by law or to commence legal proceedings or otherwise
proceed against the Lessee in any other jurisdiction.

SECTION 17. LIMITATIONS OF LIABILITY OF OWNER TRUSTEE.

      It is expressly understood and agreed by and among the parties hereto
that, except as otherwise expressly provided herein or therein, each of this
Participation Agreement and the other Operative Documents is executed by
Wilmington Trust Company, not individually or personally but solely as Owner
Trustee under the Trust Agreement in the exercise of the power and authority
conferred and vested in it as such Owner Trustee, that each and all of the
representations, undertakings and agreements herein or therein made on the part
of the Owner Trustee or the Trust are intended not as personal representations,
undertakings and agreements by Wilmington Trust Company, or for the purpose or
with the intention of binding Wilmington Trust Company, personally, but are made
and intended for the purpose of binding only the Trust Estate, that nothing
herein contained shall be construed as creating any liability of Wilmington
Trust Company, or any incorporator or any past, present or future subscriber to
the capital stock of, or stockholder, officer or director of Wilmington Trust
Company, to perform any covenant either express or implied contained herein or
in the other Operative Documents to which the Owner Trustee or the Trust is a
party, and that so far as Wilmington Trust Company is concerned, any Person
shall look solely to the Trust Estate for the performance of any obligation
hereunder or thereunder or under any of the instruments referred to herein or
therein; provided, however, that nothing contained in this Section shall be
construed to limit in scope or substance the general corporate liability of
Wilmington Trust Company, expressly provided (i) to the Certificate Holders
under the Trust Agreement, (ii) in respect of those representations, warranties,
agreements and covenants of Wilmington Trust Company expressly set forth in
Section 7(a) hereof or in any Operative Document to which it is a party or (iii)
pursuant to the Trust Agreement, for the gross negligence or willful misconduct
of Wilmington Trust Company or to exercise the same degree of care and skill as
is customarily exercised by similar institutions in the receipt and disbursement
of moneys under similar circumstances.

SECTION 18. LIMITATION OF LIABILITY OF CERTIFICATE HOLDERS.

      The Certificate Holders shall not have any obligation or duty to Owner
Trustee, the Lessee, Wilmington Trust Company or to others with respect to the
transactions contemplated hereby, or for any loss arising under the Operative
Documents in respect of a Title Defect, except those obligations or duties of
Certificate Holders expressly set forth in this Participation Agreement and the
other Operative Documents and the Certificate Holders shall not be liable for
performance by any other party of such other party's obligations or duties
hereunder or thereunder. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, under
no circumstances whatsoever

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shall the Certificate Holders be liable for any action or inaction on the part
of Owner Trustee in connection with the transactions contemplated herein,
whether or not such action or inaction is caused by the willful misconduct or
gross negligence of Owner Trustee, unless such action or inaction is taken upon
the written instructions of the Certificate Holders or in violation of the
covenants of the Certificate Holders in the Operative Documents.

SECTION 19. NOTICES.

      All communications, demands, notices and consents provided for herein
shall be given in writing (either by mail, reputable overnight courier, personal
delivery or by telecopier) and shall become effective, if given by personal
delivery or telecopier, when given, if given by overnight courier, on the first
Business Day after delivery to said courier, all fees therefor prepaid, and if
given by mail, five (5) days after deposit in the United States mail, with
proper postage for first-class mail prepaid, addressed: (i) if to the
Certificate Holders, at their respective Designated Offices set forth on
Schedule 2; (ii) if to the Owner Trustee, at Wilmington Trust Company, Rodney
Square North, 1100 North Market Street, Wilmington, Delaware 19890, telecopier
number (302) 651-8882 Attention: Corporate Trust Administration; (iii) if to the
Lessee, at 311 South Wacker Drive, Chicago, Illinois 60606, telecopier number
(312) 913-3028, Attention: President; or (iv) if to the Agent or the Lenders at
their respective Designated Offices set forth on Schedule 2, or at such other
address as any party hereto may from time to time designate by notice duly given
in accordance with the provisions of this Section to the other parties hereto.
Each party hereto agrees to provide a copy of each notice of an Event of Default
which it gives to any party, to each party hereto.

SECTION 20. SURVIVAL OF REPRESENTATIONS; BINDING EFFECT.

      All agreements, representations and warranties contained in this
Participation Agreement, or in any agreement, document or certificate delivered
pursuant hereto or in connection herewith shall survive the execution and
delivery of this Participation Agreement and the expiration or other termination
of this Participation Agreement and shall be considered relied upon by each
other party hereto regardless of any knowledge or investigation made by or on
behalf of any such party. All agreements, representations and warranties in this
Participation Agreement shall bind the party making the same and its successors
and permitted assigns and shall inure to the benefit of each party for whom made
and all their respective successors and permitted assigns and all Indemnified
Persons.

SECTION 21. THE AGENT.

      (a) Appointment; Nature of Relationship. The Agent is hereby appointed by
each of the Participants as its contractual representative hereunder and under
each other Operative Document, and each of the Participants irrevocably
authorizes the Agent to act as the contractual representative of such
Participant with the rights and duties expressly set forth herein and in the
other Operative Documents. The Agent agrees to act as such contractual
representative upon the express conditions contained in this Section 21.
Notwithstanding the use of the defined term "Agent," it is expressly understood
and agreed that the Agent shall not have any fiduciary responsibilities to any
Participant by reason of this Participation Agreement or any other Operative
Document and that the Agent is merely acting as the contractual representative
of the

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Participants with only those duties as are expressly set forth in this
Participation Agreement and the other Operative Documents. In its capacity as
the Participants' contractual representative, the Agent (i) does not hereby
assume any fiduciary duties to any of the Participants, (ii) is a
"representative" of the Participants within the meaning of Section 9-105 of the
Uniform Commercial Code and (iii) is acting as an independent contractor, the
rights and duties of which are limited to those expressly set forth in this
Participation Agreement and the other Operative Documents. Each of the
Participants hereby agrees to assert no claim against the Agent on any agency
theory or any other theory of liability for breach of fiduciary duty, all of
which claims each Participant hereby waives.

      (b) Powers. The Agent shall have and may exercise such powers under the
Operative Documents as are specifically delegated to the Agent by the terms of
each thereof, together with such powers as are reasonably incidental thereto.
The Agent shall have no implied duties to the Participants, or any obligation to
the Participants to take any action thereunder except any action specifically
provided by the Operative Documents to be taken by the Agent.

      (c) General Immunity. Neither the Agent nor any of its directors,
officers, agents or employees shall be liable to the Lessee, the Lessor, the
Participants or any Participant for any action taken or omitted to be taken by
it or them hereunder or under any other Operative Document or in connection
herewith or therewith except to the extent such action or inaction is determined
in a final non-appealable judgment by a court of competent jurisdiction to have
arisen from the gross negligence or willful misconduct of such Person.

      (d) No Responsibility for Recitals, etc. Neither the Agent nor any of its
directors, officers, agents or employees shall be responsible for or have any
duty to ascertain, inquire into, or verify (a) any statement, warranty or
representation made in connection with any Operative Document or any advances
thereunder; (b) the performance or observance of any of the covenants or
agreements of any obligor under any Operative Document, including, without
limitation, any agreement by an obligor to furnish information directly to each
Participant; (c) the satisfaction of any condition specified in Article IV,
except receipt of items required to be delivered solely to the Agent; (d) the
existence or possible existence of any Default or Event of Default; (e) the
validity, enforceability, effectiveness, sufficiency or genuineness of any
Operative Document or any other instrument or writing furnished in connection
therewith; (f) the value, sufficiency, creation, perfection or priority of any
Lien in any collateral security; or (g) the financial condition of the Lessee or
any guarantor of any of the Obligations or of any of the Lessee's or any such
guarantor's respective Subsidiaries. The Agent shall have no duty to disclose to
the Participants information that is not required to be furnished by the Lessee
to the Agent at such time, but is voluntarily furnished by the Lessee to the
Agent (either in its capacity as Agent or in its individual capacity).

      (e) Action on Instructions of Participants. The Agent shall in all cases
be fully protected in acting, or in refraining from acting, hereunder and under
any other Operative Document in accordance with written instructions signed by
the Required Participants, and such instructions and any action taken or failure
to act pursuant thereto shall be binding on all of the Participants. The
Participants hereby acknowledge that the Agent shall be under no duty to take
any discretionary action permitted to be taken by it pursuant to the provisions
of this Participation Agreement or any other Operative Document unless it shall
be requested in writing

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to do so by the Required Participants. The Agent shall be fully justified in
failing or refusing to take any action hereunder and under any other Operative
Document unless it shall first be indemnified to its satisfaction by the
Participants pro rata against any and all liability, cost and expense that it
may incur by reason of taking or continuing to take any such action.

      (f) Employment of Agents and Counsel. The Agent may execute any of its
duties as Agent hereunder and under any other Operative Document by or through
employees, agents, and attorneys-in-fact and shall not be answerable to the
Participants, except as to money or securities received by it or its authorized
agents, for the default or misconduct of any such agents or attorneys-in-fact
selected by it with reasonable care. The Agent shall be entitled to advice of
counsel concerning the contractual arrangement between the Agent and the
Participants and all matters pertaining to the Agent's duties hereunder and
under any other Operative Document.

      (g) Reliance on Documents; Counsel. The Agent shall be entitled to rely
upon any Note, notice, consent, certificate, affidavit, letter, telegram,
statement, paper or document believed by it to be genuine and correct and to
have been signed or sent by the proper person or persons, and, in respect to
legal matters, upon the opinion of counsel selected by the Agent, which counsel
may be employees of the Agent.

      (h) Agent's Reimbursement and Indemnification. The Participants agree to
reimburse and indemnify the Agent ratably in proportion to their respective
Commitments (or, if the Commitments have been terminated, in proportion to their
Commitments immediately prior to such termination) (i) for any amounts not
reimbursed by the Lessee for which the Agent is entitled to reimbursement by the
Lessee under the Operative Documents, (ii) for any other expenses incurred by
the Agent on behalf of the Participants, in connection with the preparation,
execution, delivery, administration and enforcement of the Operative Documents
(including, without limitation, for any expenses incurred by the Agent in
connection with any dispute between the Agent and any Participant or between two
or more of the Participants) and (iii) for any liabilities, obligations, losses,
damages, penalties, actions, judgments, suits, costs, expenses or disbursements
of any kind and nature whatsoever which may be imposed on, incurred by or
asserted against the Agent in any way relating to or arising out of the
Operative Documents or any other document delivered in connection therewith or
the transactions contemplated thereby (including, without limitation, for any
such amounts incurred by or asserted against the Agent in connection with any
dispute between the Agent and any Participant or between two or more of the
Participants), or the enforcement of any of the terms of the Operative Documents
or of any such other documents, provided that no Participant shall be liable for
any of the foregoing to the extent any of the foregoing is found in a final
non-appealable judgment by a court of competent jurisdiction to have resulted
from the gross negligence or willful misconduct of the Agent. The obligations of
the Participants under this Section 21(h) shall survive payment of the
Obligations and termination of this Participation Agreement.

      (i) Notice of Default. The Agent shall not be deemed to have knowledge or
notice of the occurrence of any Default or Event of Default hereunder unless the
Agent has received written notice from a Participant or the Lessee referring to
this Agreement describing such Default or Event of Default and stating that such
notice is a "notice of default". In the event that the Agent receives such a
notice, the Agent shall give prompt notice thereof to the Participants.

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      (j) Rights as a Participant. In the event the Agent is a Participant, the
Agent shall have the same rights and powers hereunder and under any other
Operative Document with respect to its Commitment and its Loans as any
Participant and may exercise the same as though it were not the Agent, and the
term "Participant" or "Participants" shall, at any time when the Agent is a
Participant, unless the context otherwise indicates, include the Agent in its
individual capacity. The Agent and its Affiliates may accept deposits from, lend
money to, and generally engage in any kind of trust, debt, equity or other
transaction, in addition to those contemplated by this Participation Agreement
or any other Operative Document, with the Lessee or any of its Subsidiaries in
which the Lessee or such Subsidiary is not restricted hereby from engaging with
any other Person. The Agent, in its individual capacity, is not obligated to
remain a Participant.

      (k) Participant Credit Decision. Each Participant acknowledges that it
has, independently and without reliance upon the Agent, the Arranger or any
other Participant and based on the financial statements prepared by the Lessee
and such other documents and information as it has deemed appropriate, made its
own credit analysis and decision to enter into this Participation Agreement and
the other Operative Documents. Each Participant also acknowledges that it will,
independently and without reliance upon the Agent, the Arranger or any other
Participant and based on such documents and information as it shall deem
appropriate at the time, continue to make its own credit decisions in taking or
not taking action under this Participation Agreement and the other Operative
Documents.

      (l) Successor Agent. The Agent may resign at any time by giving written
notice thereof to the Participants and the Lessee, such resignation to be
effective upon the appointment of a successor Agent or, if no successor Agent
has been appointed, forty-five days after the retiring Agent gives notice of its
intention to resign. The Agent may be removed at any time with or without cause
by written notice received by the Agent from the Required Participants, such
removal to be effective on the date specified by the Required Participants. Upon
any such resignation or removal, the Required Participants shall have the right
to appoint, on behalf of the Lessee and the Participants, a successor Agent. If
no successor Agent shall have been so appointed by the Required Participants
within thirty days after the resigning Agent's giving notice of its intention to
resign, then the resigning Agent may appoint, on behalf of the Lessee and the
Participants, a successor Agent. Notwithstanding the previous sentence, the
Agent may at any time without the consent of the Lessee or any Participant,
appoint any of its Affiliates which is a commercial bank as a successor Agent
hereunder. If the Agent has resigned or been removed and no successor Agent has
been appointed, the Participants may perform all the duties of the Agent
hereunder and the Lessee shall make all payments in respect of the Obligations
to the applicable Participant and for all other purposes shall deal directly
with the Participants. No successor Agent shall be deemed to be appointed
hereunder until such successor Agent has accepted the appointment. Any such
successor Agent shall be a commercial bank having capital and retained earnings
of at least $100,000,000. Upon the acceptance of any appointment as Agent
hereunder by a successor Agent, such successor Agent shall thereupon succeed to
and become vested with all the rights, powers, privileges and duties of the
resigning or removed Agent. Upon the effectiveness of the resignation or removal
of the Agent, the resigning or removed Agent shall be discharged from its duties
and obligations hereunder and under the Operative Documents. After the
effectiveness of the resignation or removal of an Agent, the provisions of this
Section 21 shall continue in effect for the benefit of such Agent in respect of
any actions taken or omitted to be taken by it while it was acting as the Agent
hereunder and

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under the other Operative Documents. In the event that there is a successor to
the Agent by merger, or the Agent assigns its duties and obligations to an
Affiliate pursuant to this Section 21(l), then the term "Prime Rate" as used in
this Participation Agreement shall mean the prime rate, base rate or other
analogous rate of the new Agent.

      (m) Agent's Fee. The Lessee agrees to pay to the Agent, for its own
account, the fees agreed to by the Lessee and the Agent pursuant to the Fee
Letter and the Agent's reasonable fees, costs and expenses for the performance
of Agent's obligations hereunder.

      (n) Delegation to Affiliates. The Lessee and the Participants agree that
the Agent may delegate any of its duties under this Participation Agreement to
any of its Affiliates. Any such Affiliate (and such Affiliate's directors,
officers, agents and employees) which performs duties in connection with this
Agreement shall be entitled to the same benefits of the indemnification, waiver
and other protective provisions to which the Agent is entitled under Section 13
and 14.

      (o) Execution of Collateral Documents. The Participants hereby empower and
authorize the Agent to execute and deliver to the Lessee on their behalf the
Pledge Agreement and all related financing statements and any financing
statements, agreements, documents or instruments as shall be necessary or
appropriate to effect the purposes of the Pledge Agreement and any other
Operative Document.

      (p) Collateral Releases. The Participants hereby empower and authorize the
Agent to execute and deliver to the Lessee on their behalf any agreements,
documents or instruments as shall be necessary or appropriate to effect any
releases of Collateral which shall be permitted by the terms hereof or of any
other Operative Document or which shall otherwise have been approved by the
Required Participants (or, if required by the terms of Section 22(c), all of the
Participants) in writing.

SECTION 22. MISCELLANEOUS.

      (a) Counterpart Execution. This Participation Agreement may be executed in
any number of counterparts and by the different parties hereto on separate
counterparts, each of which, when so executed and delivered, shall be an
original, but all such counterparts shall together constitute but one and the
same instrument.

      (b) Governing Law. THIS PARTICIPATION AGREEMENT SHALL BE GOVERNED BY, AND
BE CONSTRUED IN ACCORDANCE WITH, THE INTERNAL LAWS OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS
WITHOUT REGARD TO CONFLICT OF LAW PRINCIPLES.

      (c) Amendments, Supplements, Waivers. Neither this Participation Agreement
nor any other Operative Document nor any of the terms hereof or thereof may be
amended, supplemented, waived or modified orally, or terminated in any manner
whatsoever except by written instrument signed by the Lessee (if Lessee is a
party thereto or if the Operative Document is the Loan Agreement, the Lender
Mortgage, the Master Assignment of Leases and Rents or the Specific Assignment
of Leases and Rents, or if such action adversely affects the

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Lessee), the Agent, the Required Participants and the Owner Trustee (if such
action adversely affects the Owner Trustee) and Wilmington Trust Company (if
such action adversely affects Wilmington Trust Company); and provided that the
following actions may not be taken:

                  (1) without the consent of the applicable party, any action
            which will modify the timing or amount of any payment to such party
            or increase the amount of its Commitment;

                  (2) without the consent of the applicable party, any action
            which requires the consent of such party in its sole discretion if
            such party has not provided its consent (including, without
            limitation, consents under the provisions of Section 9(c)(9) and
            Section 13(f) above);

                  (3) without the consent of all Participants, any action which
            will modify any of the provisions of this Section 22(c), change the
            definition of "Required Participants" or modify or waive any
            provision of any Operative Document requiring action by any of the
            foregoing, or extend the Expiration Date, or release all or
            substantially all of the collateral;

                  (4) without the consent of the applicable party, any action
            which will reduce, modify, amend or waive any indemnities in favor
            of any Participant, the Agent or the Owner Trustee;

                  (5) without the consent of all Participants, modify, amend,
            waive or supplement any of the provisions of Sections 11, 12, 14, 15
            or 16 of the Master Lease;

                  (6) without the consent of all Participants, consent to any
            assignment of the Master Lease or other Operative Document releasing
            the Lessee from its obligations thereunder or changing the absolute
            and unconditional character of such obligations;

                  (7) without the consent of all Participants, permit the
            creation of any Lien on any of the Sites or any part thereof except
            as contemplated by the Operative Documents, or deprive any
            Participant of the benefit of the security interest and lien secured
            by the Sites.

Each party hereto shall be notified of each amendment to or supplement of any
Operative Document.

      (d) Headings. The headings of the sections and paragraphs of this
Participation Agreement and the table of contents have been inserted for
convenience of reference only and shall not affect the construction or
interpretation of this Participation Agreement.

      (e) Business Day. If the date on which any payment is to be made pursuant
to this Participation Agreement or any other Operative Document is not a
Business Day, then (except as otherwise expressly provided herein of in any
other applicable Operative Document) the payment otherwise payable on such date
shall be payable on the next succeeding Business Day,

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and, except as may otherwise be required by the Master Lease, without any
additional amount accruing with respect thereto, with the same force and effect
as if made on the date when such payment is due.

      (f) Reproduction of Documents. This Participation Agreement, all documents
constituting exhibits hereto, and all documents relating hereto received by a
party hereto, including, without limitation, (a) consents, waivers and
modifications that may hereafter be executed, (b) documents received by
Certificate Holders in connection with Owner Trustee's purchase of the Sites,
and (c) financial statements, certificates, and other information previously or
hereafter furnished to Certificate Holders or Owner Trustee may be reproduced by
the party receiving the same by any photographic, photostatic, microfilm or
other similar process. Each party hereto agrees and stipulates that, to the
extent permitted by law, any such reproduction shall be admissible in evidence
as the original itself in any judicial or administrative proceeding (whether or
not such reproduction was made by such party in the regular course of business)
and that, to the extent permitted by law, any enlargement, facsimile, or further
reproduction of such reproduction shall likewise be admissible in evidence.

      (g) Opinions. The parties to this Participation Agreement hereby
acknowledge that they have irrevocably instructed their respective counsel to
deliver to and for the benefit of the addressees thereof, the opinions of such
counsel referred to in and required by Section 9 and Section 13(f) of this
Participation Agreement.

      (h) Survival of Agreements. All agreements, indemnities, representations
and warranties contained in this Participation Agreement or in any agreement,
document or certificate delivered pursuant hereto following or in connection
herewith shall survive the execution and delivery of this Participation
Agreement and the expiration or other termination of this Participation
Agreement

      (i) Enforcement. Any provision of this Participation Agreement which may
be determined by competent authority to be prohibited or unenforceable in any
jurisdiction shall, as to such jurisdiction, be ineffective to the extent of
such prohibition or unenforceability without invalidating the remaining
provisions hereof, and any such prohibition or unenforceability in any
jurisdiction shall not invalidate or render unenforceable such provision in any
other jurisdiction. To the extent permitted by Applicable Law, the Lessee hereby
waives any provision of law which renders any provision hereof prohibited or
unenforceable in any respect.

      (j) Preservation of Rights. No delay or omission of the Participants or
the Agent to exercise any right under the Operative Documents shall impair such
right or be construed to be a waiver of any Event of Default or an acquiescence
therein, and the making of an Advance notwithstanding the existence of an Event
of Default or the inability of the Lessee to satisfy the conditions precedent to
such Advance shall not constitute any waiver or acquiescence. Any single or
partial exercise of any such right shall not preclude other or further exercise
thereof or the exercise of any other right, and no waiver, amendment or other
variation of the terms, conditions or provisions of the Operative Documents
whatsoever shall be valid unless in writing signed by the Participants required
pursuant to Section 22(c), and then only to the extent in such writing
specifically set forth. All remedies contained in the Operative Documents or by
law

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afforded shall be cumulative and all shall be available to the Agent and the
Participants until the Obligations have been paid in full.

      (k) Entire Agreement. This Participation Agreement, together with the
other Operative Documents, represents the entire agreement of the parties hereto
with respect to the subject matter hereof and supersedes any and all prior
understandings.

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      WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have each caused this Participation
Agreement to be duly executed by their respective officers hereunto duly
authorized as of the date first above written.

                                 MARCHFIRST, INC., a Delaware corporation,
                                 as Lessee, Construction Agent and Guarantor

                                 By: ___________________________________________
                                 Name:__________________________________________
                                 Title:_________________________________________

                                 MARCHFIRST, INC. HEADQUARTERS TRUST NO. 2000-1,
                                 a Delaware business trust, as Lessor

                                 By:  Wilmington Trust Company, not in its
                                      individual capacity, but solely as owner
                                      trustee of marchFIRST, Inc. Headquarters
                                      Trust No. 2000-1

                                      By:
                                         ---------------------------------------
                                      Name:
                                           -------------------------------------
                                      Title:    Authorized Officer
                                             -----------------------------------

                                 WILMINGTON TRUST COMPANY, not in its individual
                                 capacity except as expressly provided herein,
                                 but solely as Owner Trustee, and in its
                                 individual capacity

                                 By:
                                    --------------------------------------------
                                 Name:
                                      ------------------------------------------
                                 Title:    Authorized Officer
                                       -----------------------------------------

                                 BANK ONE, NA,
                                 as a Lender and as Agent for the Lenders

                                 By: ___________________________________________
                                 Name:__________________________________________
                                 Title:_________________________________________

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                                 BANK ONE, NA,
                                 as a Lender

                                 By: ___________________________________________
                                 Name:__________________________________________
                                 Title:_________________________________________

                                 BANK ONE LEASING SERVICES CORP.,
                                 as a Certificate Holder

                                 By: ___________________________________________
                                 Name:__________________________________________
                                 Title:_________________________________________

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                                  SCHEDULE 1 to
                             Participation Agreement

                           COMMITMENTS OF PARTICIPANTS

--------------------------------------------------------------------------
                               Equity Commitment             Commitment
Participant                    and Loan Commitment           Percentage
-----------                    -------------------           -----------
--------------------------------------------------------------------------
Lender
(Tranche A and Tranche B)
--------------------------------------------------------------------------
Bank One, NA                   $90,210,000                   97%
--------------------------------------------------------------------------

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Certificate Holders
--------------------------------------------------------------------------
Banc One Leasing Services
Corp.                          $2,790,000                    3%
--------------------------------------------------------------------------
                               --------------
--------------------------------------------------------------------------
TOTAL                          $93,000,000                   100%
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                                  SCHEDULE 2 to
                             Participation Agreement

                    NOTICE ADDRESSES AND PAYMENT INSTRUCTIONS

      1.    Wilmington Trust Company

            (A) All payments on account of the Owner Trustee shall be made by
      wire transfer of immediately available funds to the following Payment
      Office:

                  Wilmington Trust Company
                  ABA No. 031 100 092
                  Account Name: marchFIRST, Inc.
                  Account Number:  51515-0
                  Attention:  Robert Hines / Corporate Trust Administration

      with sufficient information to identify the source and application of
      funds. In addition, a confirmation of each payment shall be sent
      concurrently with such payment to the address stated in paragraph (B)
      below.

            (B)   The Designated Office of the Owner Trustee is:

                  Wilmington Trust Company
                  Rodney Square North
                  1100 North Market Street
                  Wilmington, Delaware 19890
                  Attention:  Corporate Trust Administration Department

      2.    Banc One Leasing Services Corp. - Certificate Holder

            (A) All payments on account of the Certificate Holders shall be made
      by wire transfer of immediately available funds to the following Payment
      Offices:

                  Bank One, N.A.
                  Chicago, Illinois
                  ABA#: 071000013
                  Account #: 481152860000
                  For Credit LS2 Incoming Account
                  Reference: MarchFirst Synthetic Lease
                  Attention: Kathie Blomquist

      with sufficient information to identify the source and application of
      funds. In addition, a confirmation of each payment shall be sent
      concurrently to the address stated in Section 19 of the Participation
      Agreement.

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            (B)   The Designated Office of Banc One Leasing Services Corp. is:

                  1 Bank One Plaza
                  Mail Suite IL1-0088
                  Chicago, Illinois  60670

      3.    Bank One, NA, as Agent

            (A) All payments on account of Bank One, NA, as agent for the
      Lenders shall be made by wire transfer of immediately available funds to
      the following Payment Office:

                  Bank One, N.A.
                  Chicago, Illinois
                  ABA#: 071000013
                  Account #: 481152860000
                  For Credit LS2 Incoming Account
                  Reference: MarchFirst Synthetic Lease
                  Attention: Kathie Blomquist

      with sufficient information to identify the source and application of
      funds. In addition, a confirmation of each payment shall be sent
      concurrently to the address stated in Section 19 of the Participation
      Agreement.

            (B) The Designated Office of Bank One, NA, as Agent for the Lenders
      is:

                  1 Bank One Plaza
                  Mail Suite  IL1-0088
                  Chicago, Illinois  60670

      4. Each of the foregoing payment instructions are subject to change from
      time to time by the applicable recipient (including, without limitation,
      any applicable assignee), by notice made in accordance with Section 19 of
      the Participation Agreement.

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                               SCHEDULE 8(a)(8) to
                             Participation Agreement

                                      TAXES

                                      None

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                              SCHEDULE 8(a)(22) to
                             Participation Agreement

                                  SUBSIDIARIES

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                              SCHEDULE 8(a)(24) to
                             Participation Agreement

                                      LIENS

                                      None

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                               SCHEDULE 8(d)(9) to
                             Participation Agreement

                              EXISTING INVESTMENTS

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                               SCHEDULE 9(d)(1) to
                             Participation Agreement

                             CONSTRUCTION MILESTONES

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                                    EXHIBIT A

                             Form of Trust Agreement

                                                        Participation Agreement
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                                    EXHIBIT B

                              Form of Master Lease

                                                        Participation Agreement
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                                    EXHIBIT C

                      Form of Annual No Default Certificate

                              OFFICER'S CERTIFICATE

To:   Banc One Leasing Services Corp., as Owner Participant
      Wilmington Trust Company, as Owner Trustee

      On behalf of marchFIRST, Inc., a Delaware corporation (the "Company"), I,
the undersigned officer of the Company, hereby certify, pursuant to Section
8(d)(4)the Participation Agreement, dated as of April [__], 2000 (the
"Participation Agreement"), among the Company, as Lessee, Construction Agent and
Guarantor, marchFIRST, Inc. Headquarters Trust No. 2000-1, as Lessor, Wilmington
Trust Company, individually and as Owner Trustee, Banc One Leasing Services
Corp., Inc., as Owner Participant, Bank One, NA, and the various financial
institutions party to the Participation Agreement from time to time, as the
Tranche A and Tranche B Lenders, and Bank One, NA, as Agent, that:

                  (a) I am a Responsible Employee and an officer of the Company;

                  (b) I have reviewed the required insurance coverages, the
            relevant terms of the Master Lease and the other Operative Documents
            and have made, or caused to be made, under my supervision, a review
            of the transactions and the condition of the Lessee for the fiscal
            year beginning on through the date of this certificate; and

                  (c) Such review has not disclosed the existence during such
            period of any condition or event which constitutes a Lease Default
            or Lease Event of Default [or, if any such condition exists, specify
            the nature and period of existence and what action the Lessee has
            taken or proposes to take with respect thereto].

      Capitalized terms used herein and not otherwise defined herein shall have
the respective meanings assigned thereto in Appendix A to the Participation
Agreement.

      IN WITNESS WHEREOF, on behalf of the Company, the undersigned has executed
this Officer's Certificate as of the ___ day of _______________, ______.

                                          By:
                                              ---------------------------------
                                          Name:
                                                -------------------------------
                                          Title:
                                                -------------------------------

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                                   EXHIBIT D-1

                Form of Opinion of In-house Counsel to the Lessee

                                                         Participation Agreement
<PAGE>

                                   EXHIBIT D-2

                Form of Opinion of Special Counsel to the Lessee

                                                         Participation Agreement
<PAGE>

                                    EXHIBIT E

                Form of Opinion of Special Counsel to Wilmington
                         Trust Company and Owner Trustee

                                                         Participation Agreement
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                                    EXHIBIT F

                         Form of Completion Certificate

                             COMPLETION CERTIFICATE

      To:   _________________________, as Owner Trustee

            _________________________, as Agent,

            _________________________, as a Participant,

            _________________________, as a Participant,

                                        [list all Participants]

            This Completion Certificate is delivered to you pursuant to Section
      10(a) of the Participation Agreement, date as of [_______], 2000 (the
      "Participation Agreement"), among marchFIRST, Inc. (the "Lessee,"
      "Construction Agent" or "Guarantor,") as Lessee, Construction Agent and
      Guarantor, Wilmington Trust Company, as Owner Trustee, marchFIRST, Inc.
      Headquarters Trust No. 2000-1, as Lessor, the Persons named on Schedule
      [____] hereto, as Certificate Holders, Bank One, NA, and other such
      Lenders as may from time to time become parties thereto, as Tranche A
      Lenders and Tranche B Lenders, and Bank One, NA, as Agent. Capitalized
      terms used but not otherwise defined herein have the respective meanings
      specified in Appendix A to the Participation Agreement.

            With respect to the Site that is subject to Lease Supplement No. ___
      (the "Subject Property"), the Construction Agent hereby certifies that:

            (i) The representations and warranties of the Lessee set forth in
      Section 8 of the Participation Agreement and in the other Operative
      Documents are true and correct with respect to the Subject Property as of
      the date hereof.

            (ii) All amounts owing to third parties for the Construction of the
      Improvements on the Subject Property have been paid in full (other than
      contingent obligations for which the Lessee has made adequate reserves or
      other amounts which are being disputed by the Lessee in good faith).

            (iii) No changes or modifications were made to the Plans and
      Specifications relating to the Subject Property after the related Site
      Acquisition Date that have had a Material Adverse Effect on the value,
      condition, use or useful life of the Subject Property.

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            The Construction Agent has caused this Completion Certificate to be
      executed and delivered this ________ day of _______________, ____.

                                          MARCHFIRST, INC.

                                          By:
                                              ---------------------------------
                                          Name:
                                                -------------------------------
                                          Title:
                                                -------------------------------

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                                    EXHIBIT G

                             Form of Lender Mortgage

                                                         Participation Agreement
<PAGE>

                                    EXHIBIT H

                             Form of Funding Request

                             FORM OF FUNDING REQUEST

      To:   [          ] as Owner Trustee

            [            ] as Agent for the Lenders

            This Funding Request is delivered to you pursuant to Section 9(b)
      [and 9(c)] of the Participation Agreement dated as of [__________], 2000
      (the "Participation Agreement"), among marchFIRST, Inc., a Delaware
      corporation (the "Lessee"), as Lessee, Construction Agent and Guarantor,
      Wilmington Trust Company, as Owner Trustee, marchFIRST, Inc. Headquarters
      Trust No. 2000-1, as Lessor, the Persons listed on Schedule [__] thereto,
      as Certificate Holders, Bank One, NA, and other such Lenders as may from
      time to time become parties thereto, as Tranche A Lenders and Tranche B
      Lenders, and Bank One, NA, as Agent. Capitalized terms used but not
      otherwise defined herein have the respective meanings specified in
      Appendix A to the Participation Agreement.

            The Lessee hereby notifies you and certifies to you that:

            (i)   The Lessee requests the making of an Advance in the amount of
            $__________________ on [DATE] (the "Proposed Funding Date");

            (ii)  The Proposed Funding Date [will] [will not] also be a Site
            Acquisition Date;

            (iii) The Advance will be allocated between the Sites and their
            respective Site Costs as set forth on Schedule A hereto (and pro
            rata portions of the related Equity Amounts and Loans shall likewise
            be deemed to be so allocated); and

            (iv) The interest and Yield shall be based on [the LIBO Rate for a
            [1][3][6][9][12] month period] [the Alternate Base Rate]; provided,
            however, that from the date of funding to the next Scheduled Payment
            Date, interest and Yield will be based upon the Alternate Base Rate;
            and provided, further, that during the Construction Period interest
            and Yield shall be based upon [the LIBO Rate for a one (1) month
            period][the Alternate Base Rate].

            (v) [with respect to each acquisition of a ground leasehold interest
            in a Land Interest, the following information is set forth on
            Schedule B hereto: (A) a description of the Land Interest to be
            acquired (the "Subject Property"), (B) whether the Subject Property
            consists of a Land Interest only or a Land Interest and Improved
            Property, (C) the Estimated Improvement Costs for the

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<PAGE>

            Subject Property, description of the Plans and Specifications, the
            construction budget and anticipated disbursement schedule, (D) the
            estimated sales costs as of the Expiration Date for such Site on the
            assumption that the Lessee will elect the Sale Option, and (E)
            evidence satisfactory to the Agent and the Participants that (x) the
            portion of the total Commitments of the Participants properly
            allocable to the Site Costs of such Site will be sufficient to
            finance the Construction of such Site through Completion and (y)
            such Construction is reasonably capable of being completed by the
            applicable Outside Completion Date, in accordance with the Plans and
            Specifications.](1)

      In connection with such requested Advance, the Lessee hereby represents
      and warrants to you as follows:

            (a) On the Proposed Funding Date, each and every representation and
            warranty of the Lessee contained in the Participation Agreement
            (including without limitation Section 8 thereof) and in each of the
            other Operative Documents are true and correct in all material
            respects on and as of the Proposed Funding Date except to the extent
            such representations or warranties relate solely to an earlier date,
            in which case such representations and warranties shall have been
            true and correct in all material respects on and as of such earlier
            date.

            (b) Each Operative Document to which the Lessee is a party is in
            full force and effect with respect to the Lessee.

            (c) On the Proposed Funding Date, no Lease Event of Default or
            Construction Agency Agreement Event of Default has occurred and is
            continuing and no Lease Default or Construction Agency Agreement
            Default of which the Lessee has knowledge and that has not been
            previously disclosed to the Agent, the Owner Trustee and the
            Participants has occurred and is continuing under the Master Lease
            or the Construction Agency Agreement or, to the knowledge of the
            Lessee, under any other Operative Document; provided, however, that
            the Participants shall not be obligated to fund any Advance if such
            a Default shall be continuing whether or not the Lessee shall have
            previously disclosed the existence thereof. No Default or Event of
            Default under the Master Lease or the Construction Agency Agreement
            or, to the knowledge of the Lessee, and other Operative Document,
            will occur as a result of or after giving effect to, the Advance
            requested hereby.

            (d) After giving effect to the Advance requested hereby, (i) the
            aggregate outstanding amounts of each of the Loans and Equity
            Amounts do not exceed the Commitments of the Participants, and (ii)
            the aggregate outstanding amounts of each of the Loans and Equity
            Amounts allocable to each Site do not exceed the Commitments of the
            respective Participants with respect to such Site.

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(1) Included for Advances in connection with the acquisition of a ground
leasehold interest in a Land Interest.

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<PAGE>

            (e) All of the conditions precedent set for in Section 9 of the
            Participation Agreement applicable to the Advance requested hereby
            have been satisfied or waived.

            (f) The Lessee has duly performed and complied in all material
            respects with all covenants, agreements and conditions contained in
            the Participation Agreement or in any other Operative Document
            required to be performed or complied with by it on or prior to the
            Proposed Acquisition Date.

      The undersigned hereby certifies that [s]he is a __________________ of the
      Lessee, and that, as such [s]he is authorized to execute and deliver this
      Funding Request on behalf of the Lessee

      The Lessee has caused this Funding Request to be executed and delivered by
      its duly authorized Responsible Employee this ______________________[TO BE
      DELIVERED NO LATER THAN 10:00 AM FIVE (5) BUSINESS DAYS PRIOR TO THE
      PROPOSED FUNDING DATE].

      Please wire transfer the proceeds of the Advance to the accounts specified
      by the Lessee in written notice to the Agent.

                                          MARCHFIRST, INC.

                                          By:
                                              ---------------------------------
                                          Name:
                                                -------------------------------
                                          Title:
                                                -------------------------------

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                                   SCHEDULE A
                           TO FORM OF FUNDING REQUEST

                              ALLOCATION OF ADVANCE

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                           APPLICABLE     CURRENT         AGGREGATE ADVANCES
                           SITE(2)        REQUESTED       TO DATE (after
                                          ADVANCE         giving effect to
                                                          the Current
ITEM                                                      Requested Advance)
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Site Costs
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Transaction Expenses
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Fees
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Basic Rent
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                                          ------------    -------------
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TOTAL ADVANCE
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(2) Allocate separately for each Site. For Transaction Expenses, Fees and Basic
Rent, see Section 3(d) of the Participation Agreement regarding the method of
allocation.

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                                   SCHEDULE B
                           TO FORM OF FUNDING REQUEST

                            INFORMATION REQUIRED FOR
                                SITE ACQUISITION

1)   Description of the Subject Site:

2)   The Subject Site Consists of [Land Interest Only] [Land Interest and
     Improved Property].

3)   Estimated Improvement Costs for the Subject Site:
     $____________________________.

4)   Description of the Plans and Specifications, the construction budget and
     anticipated disbursement schedule.

5)   Attached is evidence that (x) the portion of the total Commitments of
     the Participants properly allocable to the Estimated Improvement Costs
     of such Site will be sufficient to finance the Construction of such Site
     through Completion and (y) such Construction is reasonably capable of
     being completed by the applicable Outside Completion Date, in accordance
     with the Plans and Specifications.

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<PAGE>

                                    EXHIBIT I

                        Form of Construction Certificate

                            CONSTRUCTION CERTIFICATE

     To:   _________________________, as Owner Trustee

      _________________________, as Agent,

      _________________________, as a Participant,

      _________________________, as a Participant,

                             [list all Participants]

      This Construction Certificate is delivered to you pursuant to Section
9(b)(2) of the Participation Agreement dated as of [__________], 2000 (the
"Participation Agreement"), among marchFIRST, Inc. (the "Construction Agent"),
as Lessee, Construction Agent and Guarantor, Wilmington Trust Company, as Owner
Trustee, marchFIRST, Inc. Headquarters Trust No. 2000-1, as Lessor, _________,
as Certificate Holders, Bank One, NA, and other such Lenders as may from time to
time become parties thereto, as Tranche A Lenders and Tranche B Lenders, and
Bank One, NA, as Agent. Capitalized terms used but not otherwise defined herein
have the respective meanings specified in Appendix A to the Participation
Agreement.

      The Construction Agent hereby certifies to the Agent, the Owner Trustee
and each Participant as follows:

      1. This Construction Certificate is being delivered in connection with an
   Advance that the Lessee expects to request be made on
   _______________________, ___ (the "Current Advance").

      2. The portion of the Current Advance that is to be made in connection
   with Property Improvement Costs will be used solely for the payment of
   Property Improvement Costs relating to the Sites described on Schedule A
   attached hereto (the "Subject Sites"), allocated to the applicable Subject
   Site as shown on Schedule A.

      3. With respect to each Subject Site, after giving effect to the making of
   the Current Advance and the allocation thereof among the Subject Site, the
   Property Improvement Costs for such Subject Site will not exceed the
   Estimated Improvement Costs for such Subject Site.

      4. All construction work for which funds are requested has been performed.

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<PAGE>

      5. To the Construction Agent's knowledge, no Force Majeure Event or Event
   of Loss has occurred other than a Force Majeure Event or Event of Loss of
   which the Construction Agent has provided written notice to the Agent, the
   Owner Trustee and the Participants; provided, however, that the Participants
   shall not be obligated to fund any Advance if such a event shall be
   continuing whether or not the Lessee shall have previously disclosed the
   existence thereof.

      6. All building permits required by any Governmental Authority in
   connection with the Construction for which the Current Advance is being
   requested have been obtained.

      7. No item for which payment is to be made from the Current Advance has
   heretofore been paid or reimbursed to the Construction Agent from the
   proceeds of any prior Advance.

      8. All previous Advances received by the Construction Agent pursuant to
   Construction Certificates dated prior to the date hereof on account of
   Property Improvement Costs have been applied in accordance with the
   Construction Agency Agreement and the other Operative Documents and paid to
   the Persons entitled thereto in cash or by check.

      9. All of the conditions set forth in Section 9 [(including, without
   limitation, Section 9(c))^3 of the Participation Agreement are satisfied as
   of the date hereof and will be satisfied or waived upon the funding of the
   Current Advance.

      The Construction Agent has caused this Construction Certificate to be
executed and delivered by its duly authorized Responsible Employee as of this
_____ day of _______________, ____ [TO BE DELIVERED NOT LATER THAN FIVE (5) DAYS
PRIOR TO THE DATE OF THE CURRENT ADVANCE].

                                          MARCHFIRST, INC.

                                          By:
                                              ---------------------------------
                                          Name:
                                                -------------------------------
                                          Title:
                                                -------------------------------

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<PAGE>

                                   SCHEDULE A
                           TO CONSTRUCTION CERTIFICATE

                                  Subject Sites

 --------------------------------------------------------------------------
 Description                                    Lease Supplement No.
 -----------                                    --------------------
 --------------------------------------------------------------------------
 1.  Parking Facility and Fulton Center        No. 1
 --------------------------------------------------------------------------

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                                   EXHIBIT J-1

                      Form of Assignment Agreement (Lender)

                              ASSIGNMENT AGREEMENT

      This Assignment Agreement (this "Assignment Agreement") between
_______________ _______________ (the "Assignor") and (the "Assignee") is dated
as of ___________, 20___ . The parties hereto agree as follows:

      1. PRELIMINARY STATEMENT. The Assignor is a party to a Participation
Agreement (which, as it may be amended, modified, renewed or extended from time
to time is herein called the "Participation Agreement") described in Item 1 of
Schedule 1 attached hereto ("Schedule 1"). Capitalized terms used herein and not
otherwise defined herein shall have the meanings attributed to them in the
Participation Agreement.

      2. ASSIGNMENT AND ASSUMPTION. The Assignor hereby sells and assigns to the
Assignee, and the Assignee hereby purchases and assumes from the Assignor, an
interest in and to the Assignor's rights and obligations under the Participation
Agreement and the other Operative Documents, such that after giving effect to
such assignment the Assignee shall have purchased pursuant to this Assignment
Agreement the percentage interest specified in Item 3 of Schedule 1 of all
outstanding rights and obligations under the Participation Agreement and the
other Operative Documents relating to the facilities listed in Item 3 of
Schedule 1. The aggregate Commitment (or Loans, if the applicable Commitment has
been terminated) purchased by the Assignee hereunder is set forth in Item 4 of
Schedule 1.

      3. EFFECTIVE DATE. The effective date of this Assignment Agreement (the
"Effective Date") shall be the later of the date specified in Item 5 of Schedule
1 or two Business Days (or such shorter period agreed to by the Agent) after
this Assignment Agreement, together with any consents required under the
Participation Agreement, are delivered to the Agent. In no event will the
Effective Date occur if the payments required to be made by the Assignee to the
Assignor on the Effective Date are not made on the proposed Effective Date.

      4. PAYMENT OBLIGATIONS. In consideration for the sale and assignment of
Loans hereunder, the Assignee shall pay the Assignor, on the Effective Date, the
amount agreed to by the Assignor and the Assignee. On and after the Effective
Date, the Assignee shall be entitled to receive from the Agent all payments of
principal, interest and fees with respect to the interest assigned hereby. The
Assignee will promptly remit to the Assignor any interest on Loans and fees
received from the Agent which relate to the portion of the Commitment or Loans
assigned to the Assignee hereunder for periods prior to the Effective Date and
not previously paid by the Assignee to the Assignor. In the event that either
party hereto receives any payment to which the other party hereto is entitled
under this Assignment Agreement, then the party receiving such amount shall
promptly remit it to the other party hereto.

                                                         Participation Agreement
<PAGE>

      5. RECORDATION FEE. The Assignor and Assignee each agree to pay one-half
of the recordation fee required to be paid to the Agent in connection with this
Assignment Agreement unless otherwise specified in Item 6 of Schedule 1.

      6. REPRESENTATIONS OF THE ASSIGNOR; LIMITATIONS ON THE ASSIGNOR'S
LIABILITY. The Assignor represents and warrants that (i) it is the legal and
beneficial owner of the interest being assigned by it hereunder, (ii) such
interest is free and clear of any adverse claim created by the Assignor and
(iii) the execution and delivery of this Assignment Agreement by the Assignor is
duly authorized. It is understood and agreed that the assignment and assumption
hereunder are made without recourse to the Assignor and that the Assignor makes
no other representations or warranty of any kind to the Assignee. Neither the
Assignor nor any of its officers, directors, employees, agents or attorneys
shall be responsible for (i) the due execution, legality, validity,
enforceability, genuineness, sufficiency or collectability of any Operative
Document, including without limitation, documents granting the Assignor and the
other Lenders a security interest in assets of the Lessee or any guarantor, (ii)
any representation, warranty or statement made in or in connection with any of
the Operative Documents (iii) the financial condition or creditworthiness of the
Lessee or any guarantor, (iv) the performance of or compliance with any of the
terms or provisions of any of the Operative Documents, (v) inspecting any of the
property, books or records of the Lessee, (vi) the validity, enforceability,
perfection, priority, condition, value or sufficiency of any collateral securing
or purporting to secure the Loans or (vii) any mistake, error of judgment, or
action taken or omitted to be taken in connection with the Loans or the
Operative Documents.

      7. REPRESENTATIONS AND UNDERTAKINGS OF THE ASSIGNEE. The Assignee (i)
confirms that it has received a copy of the Participation Agreement, together
with copies of the financial statements requested by the Assignee and such other
documents and information as it has deemed appropriate to make its own credit
analysis and decision to enter into this Assignment Agreement, (ii) agrees that
it will, independently and without reliance upon the Agent, the Assignor or any
other Lender and based on such documents and information at it shall deem
appropriate at the time, continue to make its own credit decisions in taking or
not taking action under the Operative Documents, (iii) appoints and authorizes
the Agent to take such action as agent on its behalf and to exercise such powers
under the Operative Documents as are delegated to the Agent by the terms
thereof, together with such powers as are reasonably incidental thereto, (iv)
confirms that the execution and delivery of this Assignment Agreement by the
Assignee is duly authorized, (v) agrees that it will perform in accordance with
their terms all of the obligations which by the terms of the Operative Documents
are required to be performed by it as a Lender, (vi) agrees that its payment
instructions and notice instructions are as set forth in the attachment to

                                                         Participation Agreement
<PAGE>

Schedule 1, (vii) confirms that none of the funds, monies, assets or other
consideration being used to make the purchase and assumption hereunder are "plan
assets" as defined under ERISA and that its rights, benefits and interests in
and under the Operative Documents will not be "plan assets" under ERISA, (viii)
agrees to indemnify and hold the Assignor harmless against all losses, costs and
expenses (including, without limitation, reasonable attorneys' fees) and
liabilities incurred by the Assignor in connection with or arising in any manner
from the Assignee's non-performance of the obligations assumed under this
Assignment Agreement, and (ix) if applicable, attaches the forms prescribed by
the Internal Revenue Service of the United States certifying that the Assignee
is entitled to receive payments under the Operative Documents without deduction
or withholding of any United States federal income taxes.

      8. GOVERNING LAW. This Assignment Agreement shall be governed by the
internal law, and not the law of conflicts, of the State of Illinois.

      9. NOTICES. Notices shall be given under this Assignment Agreement in the
manner set forth in the Participation Agreement. For the purposes hereof, the
addresses of the parties hereto (until notice of a change is delivered) shall be
the address set forth in the attachment to Schedule 1.

      10. COUNTERPARTS; DELIVERY BY FACSIMILE. This Assignment Agreement may be
executed in counterparts. Transmission by facsimile of an executed counterpart
of this Assignment Agreement shall be deemed to constitute due and sufficient
delivery of such counterpart and such facsimile shall be deemed to be an
original counterpart of this Assignment Agreement.

      IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the duly authorized officers of the parties hereto
have executed this Assignment Agreement by executing Schedule 1 hereto as of the
date first above written.

                                                         Participation Agreement
<PAGE>

                                   EXHIBIT J-2

               Form of Assignment Agreement (Certificate Holders)

                                     [Date]

To:   marchFIRST, Inc.

      -----------------------------------------------

      -----------------------------------------------

      Attention:
                 -------------------------------

To:   marchFIRST, Inc. Headquarters Trust No. 2000-1

      -----------------------------------------------

      -----------------------------------------------

      Attention:
                 -------------------------------

To:   Bank One, NA, as Agent

      -----------------------------------------------

      -----------------------------------------------

      Attention:
                 -------------------------------

            Re: Participation Agreement, dated as of April ___, 2000 (as
            amended, modified or supplemented, the "Participation Agreement"),
            among Banc One Leasing Services Corp. (the "Owner Participant"), as
            Owner Participant, Wilmington Trust Company (the "Owner Trustee"),
            individually and as Owner Trustee, marchFIRST, Inc. (the "Lessee"),
            as Lessee, Construction Agent and Guarantor, marchFIRST, Inc.
            Headquarters Trust No. 2000-1, (the "Lessor") as Lessor, Bank One,
            NA and such other Lenders as may from time to time be or become
            parties thereto as Tranche A Lenders and Tranche B Lenders
            (collectively, the "Lenders"), and Bank One, NA (the "Agent"), as
            Agent.

Ladies and Gentlemen:

      We refer to Section 12(a) of the Participation Agreement defined above.
Capitalized terms used but not otherwise defined herein have the respective
meanings specified in Appendix A to the Participation Agreement.

      This Assignment Agreement (this "Assignment Agreement") is delivered to
you pursuant to Section 12(a) of the Participation Agreement and also
constitutes notice of the assignment and delegation by ________________ (the
"Assignor") to ___________________ (the "Assignee") of [all] [a portion having
an aggregate principal amount of $ ] of the Assignor's right, title and interest
in and obligations with respect to the Equity Amounts, the Equity Commitment and
the interest in the Lessor of the Assignor. After giving effect to the foregoing
assignment and delegation, the Assignee shall hold the Commitments and
Commitment Percentages under

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<PAGE>

the Participation Agreement previously held by Assignor. Such information is set
forth on Schedule 1 hereto.

      The Assignee hereby acknowledges and confirms that it has received a copy
of the Participation Agreement and the exhibits related thereto, the Master
Lease, the Lease Supplements and each other document delivered under the
Participation Agreement as a condition to the obligations set forth in Section 3
thereof. The Assignee further confirms and agrees that in becoming a Participant
and a holder of such Equity Amounts, Equity Commitment and interest in the
Lessor, such actions have and will be made without recourse to, or
representation or warranty by the Lessor or the Agent.

      Except as otherwise provided in the Participation Agreement, effective as
of the date of acceptance hereof by the Lessor (the "Effective Date"),

            (a)   the Assignee:

                        (i) shall be deemed automatically to have become a party
            to the Participation Agreement and have all the rights and
            obligations of a "Participant" under the Participation Agreement and
            the other Operative Documents as if it were an original signatory
            thereto to the extent specified in the second paragraph hereof; and

                        (ii) agrees to be bound by the terms and conditions set
            forth in the Participation Agreement and the other Operative
            Documents as if it were an original signatory thereto; and

            (b) the Assignor shall be released from its obligations under the
      Participation Agreement and the other Operative Documents first arising
      from and after the date hereof.

      The Assignee (a) acknowledges that the obligations to be performed from
and after the Effective Date under the Participation Agreement and all other
Operative Documents, to the extent of the interest purchased by Assignee as set
forth in the second paragraph of this Assignment Agreement, are its obligations,
including the obligations imposed by Section 12(a) of the Participation
Agreement, and (b) represents and warrants to the Lessor, each Participant and
the Lessee as set forth in Section 6(a) and clauses (i) through (v) of Section
12(a) of the Participation Agreement.

      The Assignee hereby advises each of you of the administrative details with
respect to the assigned Equity Amounts, Equity Commitment and interest in the
Lessor described in Attachment 1 hereto.

      The Assignee (a) agrees to furnish the tax form or forms required by
Section 11(f) of the Participation Agreement (if so required) (i) no later than
the date of acceptance hereof by the Lessor and (ii) from time to time
thereafter as required by said Section 11(f), and (b) to comply

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<PAGE>

from time to time with all applicable United States laws and regulations with
regard to withholding tax exemption.

      Assignor's rights under Section 14(a) of the Participation Agreement shall
remain in full force and effect, and the provisions of Section 14(d) of the
Participation Agreement shall continue to be applicable to Assignor and Lessee.

      THIS ASSIGNMENT AGREEMENT SHALL IN ALL RESPECTS BE GOVERNED BY THE
INTERNAL LAW OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS AS TO ALL MATTERS OF CONSTRUCTION,
VALIDITY AND PERFORMANCE, WITHOUT REFERENCE TO CONFLICTS OF LAW.

                                                        Participation Agreement
<PAGE>

      This Assignment Agreement may be executed by the Assignor and Assignee in
separate counterparts, each of which when so executed and delivered shall be
deemed to be an original and all of which taken together shall constitute one
and the same agreement.

                                          ASSIGNOR:

                                          [NAME OF ASSIGNOR]

                                          By:
                                              ---------------------------------
                                          Name:
                                                -------------------------------
                                          Title:
                                                -------------------------------

                                         ASSIGNEE:

                                          [NAME OF ASSIGNEE]

                                          By:
                                              ---------------------------------
                                          Name:
                                                -------------------------------
                                          Title:
                                                -------------------------------

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<PAGE>

Received and accepted this ______ day of
__________, ____:
MARCHFIRST, INC., as Lessee

By:
    --------------------------------------------------------------------
   Name:
         ---------------------------------------------------------------
   Title:
          --------------------------------------------------------------

Received and accepted this ______ day of
__________, ____:

MARCHFIRST, INC. HEADQUARTERS TRUST NO. 2000-1,
  as Lessor

By:   Wilmington Trust Company, not in its individual
      capacity, but solely as owner trustee of
      MARCHFIRST, INC.,HEADQUARTERS
      TRUST NO. 2000-1

By:
    --------------------------------------------------------------------
   Name:
         ---------------------------------------------------------------
   Title:
          --------------------------------------------------------------

Received and accepted this ______ day of
__________, ____:

BANK ONE, NA,

By:
    --------------------------------------------------------------------
   Name:
         ---------------------------------------------------------------
   Title:
          --------------------------------------------------------------

                                                        Participation Agreement
<PAGE>

                                   SCHEDULE 1
                  Adjusted and Assigned Commitment Percentages

                                                        Participation Agreement
<PAGE>

                                  ATTACHMENT 1
                             to Assignment Agreement

                    [Attach Administrative Information Sheet]

                                                        Participation Agreement
<PAGE>

                                    EXHIBIT K

                             COMPLIANCE CERTIFICATE

To:   The Lenders parties to the
      Participation Agreement Described Below

      This Compliance Certificate is furnished pursuant to that certain
Participation Agreement dated as of April ___, 2000 (as amended, modified,
renewed or extended from time to time, the "Agreement") among marchFIRST, Inc.
(the "Lessee"), the lenders party thereto marchFIRST, Inc. Headquarters Trust
No. 2000-1, Banc One Leasing Services Corp., and Bank One, NA (with its
principal office in Chicago, Illinois), as Agent for the Lenders. Unless
otherwise defined herein, capitalized terms used in this Compliance Certificate
have the meanings ascribed thereto in the Agreement.

      THE UNDERSIGNED HEREBY CERTIFIES THAT:

   1. I am the duly elected ______________ of the Lessee;

   2. I have reviewed the terms of the Agreement and I have made, or have caused
to be made under my supervision, a detailed review of the transactions and
conditions of the Lessee and its Subsidiaries and Affiliates during the
accounting period covered by the attached financial statements;

   3. The examinations described in paragraph 2 did not disclose, and I have no
knowledge of, the existence of any condition or event which constitutes a
Default or an Event of Default during or at the end of the accounting period
covered by the attached financial statements or as of the date of this
Certificate, except as set forth below; and

   4. Schedule I attached hereto sets forth Lessee's most current quarterly
financial statements and computations evidencing the Lessee's compliance with
the covenants of Section 8(d)(8) of the Agreement, all of which data and
computations are true, complete and correct.

   5. Schedule II hereto sets forth the determination of the interest rates to
be paid for Advances and the Nonuse Fee rates commencing on the day hereof.

   6. Schedule III attached hereto sets forth the various reports and deliveries
which are required at this time under the Agreement and the other Operative
Documents and the status of compliance.

      Described below are the exceptions, if any, to paragraph 3 by listing, in
detail, the nature of the condition or event, the period during which it has
existed and the action which the Lessee has taken, is taking, or proposes to
take with respect to each such condition or event:

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<PAGE>

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      The foregoing certifications, together with the computations set forth in
Schedule I and Schedule II hereto and the financial statements delivered with
this Certificate in support hereof, are made and delivered this ___ day of
________, _____.

                                                     ___________________________

                                                        Participation Agreement
<PAGE>

                      SCHEDULE I TO COMPLIANCE CERTIFICATE

                     Compliance as of __________, ____ with
                          Provisions of ___ and ____ of
                                  the Agreement

                                                        Participation Agreement
<PAGE>

                      SCHEDULE II TO COMPLIANCE CERTIFICATE

                    Borrower's Applicable Margin Calculation

                                                        Participation Agreement
<PAGE>

                     SCHEDULE III TO COMPLIANCE CERTIFICATE

                      Reports and Deliveries Currently Due

                                                        Participation Agreement
<PAGE>

                                   SCHEDULE 1
                             to Assignment Agreement

1.    Description and Date of Participation Agreement:

2.    Date of Assignment Agreement:  __________, 20__

3.    Amounts (As of Date of Item 2 above):

                                        Facility     Facility
                                        1*           2*
       a.    Assignee's percentage of
             each Facility purchased
             under the Assignment
             Agreement**                 _________%   _________%

       b.    Amount of each Facility
             purchased under the
             Assignment Agreement***    $_________   $_________

4.    Assignee's Commitment (or Loans
      with respect to terminated
      Commitments) purchased hereunder: $______________________

5.    Proposed Effective Date:          _______________________

6.    Non-standard Recordation Fee
      Arrangement                                   N/A***
                                          [Assignor/Assignee
                                          to pay 100% of fee]
                                          [Fee waived by Agent]

Accepted and Agreed:

[NAME OF ASSIGNOR]                        [NAME OF ASSIGNEE]

By:______________________________         By:_______________________________

Title:_____________________________       Title:______________________________
<PAGE>

ACCEPTED AND CONSENTED TO****BY     ACCEPTED AND CONSENTED TO****
[NAME OF BORROWER]                        BY [NAME OF AGENT]

By:_______________________________        By:________________________________

Title:______________________________      Title:_______________________________

* Insert specific facility names per Credit Agreement
** Percentage taken to 10 decimal places
*** If fee is split 50-50, pick N/A as option
**** Delete if not required by Participation Agreement

                                                        Participation Agreement
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                Attachment to SCHEDULE 1 to ASSIGNMENT AGREEMENT

                        ADMINISTRATIVE INFORMATION SHEET

         Attach Assignor's Administrative Information Sheet, which must
           include notice addresses for the Assignor and the Assignee
                            (Sample form shown below)

ASSIGNOR INFORMATION

Contact:

Name:___________________________    Telephone No.:_____________________________
Fax No.:_________________________   Telex No.:_________________________________
                                    Answerback:________________________________
Payment Information:

Name & ABA # of Destination Bank:______________________________________________
_______________________________________________________________________________

Account Name & Number for Wire Transfer:_______________________________________
                                        _______________________________________
Other Instructions:____________________________________________________________
_______________________________________________________________________________

Address for Notices for Assignor:______________________________________________
                                 ______________________________________________
                                 ______________________________________________

ASSIGNEE INFORMATION

Credit Contact:

Name:______________________________       Telephone No.:_______________________
Fax No.:___________________________       Telex No.:___________________________
                                          Answerback:__________________________

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Key Operations Contacts:

Booking Installation:__________________   Booking Installation:_________________
Name:__________________________________   Name:_________________________________
Telephone No.:_________________________   Telephone No.:________________________
Fax No.:_______________________________   Fax No.:______________________________
Telex No.:_____________________________   Telex No.:____________________________
Answerback:____________________________   Answerback:___________________________

Payment Information:

Name & ABA # of Destination Bank: ______________________________________________
________________________________________________________________________________

Account Name & Number for Wire Transfer:  ______________________________________
                                          ______________________________________

Other Instructions:_____________________________________________________________
________________________________________________________________________________

Address for Notices for Assignor:_______________________________________________
                                 _______________________________________________
                                 _______________________________________________

BANK ONE INFORMATION

      Assignee will be called promptly upon receipt of the signed agreement.

Initial Funding Contact:                        Subsequent Operations Contact:

Name:______________________________       Name:_________________________________
Telephone No.:  (312)______________       Telephone No.:  (312)_________________
Fax No.:  (312)____________________       Fax No.:  (312)_______________________
                                          Telex No.: 190201(Answerback: FNBC UT)
Initial Funding Standards:

Libor - Fund 3 days after rates are set.

Wire Instructions:      Bank One, NA, ABA #____________________
                        BNF = Ref:__________________

Address for Notices:    1 Bank One Plaza, [Mail Suite _____] Chicago, IL  60670
                        Attn:_________________________
                        Fax No. (312) ___________ or (312) ______________

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                                    EXHIBIT L

                             Redevelopment Agreement
                      and Recognition and Consent Agreement

                                                        Participation Agreement
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                                    EXHIBIT M

                            Investment in Blue Vector

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                                MARCHFIRST, INC.

                            INDEMNIFICATION AGREEMENT

This Indemnification Agreement ("Agreement") is made as of this 22nd day of
May, 2000 by and between marchFIRST, Inc., a Delaware corporation (the
"Company"), and ______________ ("Indemnitee").

     WHEREAS the Company and Indemnitee recognize the increasing difficulty
in obtaining directors' and officers' liability insurance, the significant
increases in the cost of such insurance and the general reductions in the
coverage of such insurance;

     WHEREAS the Company and Indemnitee further recognize the substantial
increase in corporate litigation in general, subjecting officers and
directors to expensive litigation risks at the same time as the availability
and coverage of liability insurance has been severely limited; and

     WHEREAS the Company desires to attract and retain the services of highly
qualified individuals, such as Indemnitee, to serve as officers and directors
of the Company and to indemnify its officers and directors so as to provide
them with the maximum protection permitted by law.

     NOW, THEREFORE, in consideration for Indemnitee's services as an officer
or director of the Company, the Company and Indemnitee hereby agree as
follows:

     1. INDEMNIFICATION.

        a) THIRD PARTY PROCEEDINGS.  The Company shall indemnify Indemnitee
if Indemnitee is or was a party or is threatened to be made a party to any
threatened, pending or completed action, suit, proceeding or any alternative
dispute resolution mechanism, whether civil, criminal, administrative or
investigative (other than an action by or in the right of the Company) by
reason of the fact that Indemnitee is or was a director, officer, employee or
agent of the Company, or any subsidiary of the Company, or by reason of the
fact that Indemnitee is or was serving at the request of the Company as a
director, officer, employee or agent of another corporation, partnership,
joint venture, trust or other enterprise, against expenses (including
attorneys' fees), judgments, fines and amounts paid in settlement (if such
settlement is approved in advance by the Company, which approval shall not be
unreasonably withheld) actually and reasonably incurred by Indemnitee in
connection with such action, suit or proceeding if Indemnitee acted in good
faith and in a manner Indemnitee reasonably believed to be in or not opposed
to the best interests of the Company, and, with respect to any criminal
action or proceeding, had no reasonable cause to believe Indemnitee's conduct
was unlawful.  The termination of any action, suit or proceeding by
judgment, order, settlement, conviction, or upon a plea of NOLO CONTENDERE
or its equivalent, shall not, of itself, create a presumption that
Indemnitee did not act in good faith and in a manner which Indemnitee
reasonably believed to be in or not opposed to the best interests of the
Company, and, with respect to any criminal action or proceeding, had
reasonable cause to believe that Indemnitee's conduct was unlawful.

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        b) Proceedings By or in the Right of the Company.  The Company shall
indemnify Indemnitee if Indemnitee was or is a party or is threatened to be
made a party to any threatened, pending or completed action or suit by or in
the right of the Company or any subsidiary of the Company to procure a
judgment in its favor by reason of the fact that Indemnitee is or was a
director, officer, employee or agent of the Company, or any subsidiary of the
Company, or by reason of the fact that Indemnitee is or was serving at the
request of the Company as a director, officer, employee or agent of another
corporation, partnership, joint venture, trust or other enterprise, against
expenses (including attorneys' fees) and, to the fullest extent permitted by
law, amounts paid in settlement actually and reasonably incurred by
Indemnitee in connection with the defense or settlement of such action or
suit if Indemnitee acted in good faith and in a manner Indemnitee reasonably
believed to be in or not opposed to the best interests of the Company, except
that no indemnification shall be made in respect of any claim, issue or
matter as to which Indemnitee shall have been adjudged to be liable to the
Company unless and only to the extent that the Court of Chancery of the State
of Delaware or the court in which such action or suit was brought shall
determine upon application that, despite the adjudication of liability but in
view of all the circumstances of the case, Indemnitee is fairly and
reasonably entitled to indemnity for such expenses which the Court of
Chancery of the State of Delaware or such other court shall deem proper.

        c) Mandatory Payment of Expenses.  To the extent that Indemnitee has
been successful on the merits or otherwise in defense of any action, suit or
proceeding referred to in Subsections (a) and (b) of this Section 1, or in
defense of any claim, issue or matter therein, Indemnitee shall be
indemnified against expenses (including attorneys' fees) actually and
reasonably incurred by Indemnitee in connection therewith.

        d) INDEMNIFICATION AS WITNESS.  Notwithstanding any other provision
of this Agreement, to the extent the Indemnitee is, by reason of the fact
that he is or was an agent of the Company, a witness in any proceeding, the
Indemnitee shall be indemnified against any and all expenses actually and
reasonably incurred by or for him in connection therewith.

     2. AGREEMENT TO SERVE.  In consideration of the protection afforded by
this Agreement, if Indemnitee is a director of the Company he agrees to serve
at least for the six months after the effective date of this Agreement as a
director and not to resign voluntarily during such period without the written
consent of a majority of the Board of Directors. If Indemnitee is an officer
of the Company not serving under an employment contract, he agrees to serve
in such capacity at least for the balance of the current fiscal year of the
Company and not to resign voluntarily during such period without the written
consent of a majority of the Board of Directors.  Following the applicable
period set forth above, Indemnitee agrees to continue to serve in such
capacity at the will of the Company (or under separate agreement, if such
agreement exists) so long as he is duly appointed or elected and qualified in
accordance with the applicable provisions of the Bylaws of the Company or any
subsidiary of the Company or until such time as he tenders his resignation in
writing.  Nothing contained in this Agreement is intended to create in
Indemnitee any right to continued employment.

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     3. EXPENSES; INDEMNIFICATION PROCEDURE.

        a) ADVANCEMENT OF EXPENSES.  The Company shall advance all expenses
incurred by Indemnitee in connection with the investigation, defense,
settlement or appeal of any civil or criminal action, suit or proceeding
referenced in Section 1(a) or (b) hereof (but not amounts actually paid in
settlement of any such action, suit or proceeding).  Indemnitee hereby
undertakes to repay such amounts advanced only if, and to the extent that, it
shall ultimately be determined that Indemnitee is not entitled to be
indemnified by the Company as authorized hereby.  The advances to be made
hereunder shall be paid by the Company to Indemnitee within thirty (30) days
following delivery of a written request therefor by Indemnitee to the Company.

        b) NOTICE/COOPERATION BY INDEMNITEE.  Indemnitee shall, as a
condition precedent to his right to be indemnified under this Agreement, give
the Company notice in writing as soon as practicable of any claim made
against Indemnitee for which indemnification will or could be sought under
this Agreement.  Notice to the Company shall be directed to the President of
the Company at the address shown on the signature page of this Agreement (or
such other address as the Company shall designate in writing to Indemnitee).
Notice shall be deemed received three business days after the date postmarked
if sent by domestic certified or registered mail, properly addressed, five
business days if sent by airmail to a country outside of North America;
otherwise notice shall be deemed received when such notice shall actually be
received by the Company.  In addition, Indemnitee shall give the Company such
information and cooperation as it may reasonably require and as shall be
within Indemnitee's power.

        c) PROCEDURE.  Any indemnification and advances provided for in
Section 1 and this Section 3 shall be made no later than thirty (30) days
after receipt of the written request of Indemnitee.  If a claim under this
Agreement, under any statute, or under any provision of the Company's
Certificate of Incorporation or Bylaws providing for indemnification, is not
paid in full by the Company within thirty (30) days after a written request
for payment thereof has first been received by the Company, Indemnitee may,
but need not, at any time thereafter bring an action against the Company to
recover the unpaid amount of the claim and, subject to Section 14 of this
Agreement, Indemnitee shall also be entitled to be paid for the expenses
(including attorneys' fees) of bringing such action.  It shall be a defense
to any such action (other than an action brought to enforce a claim for
expenses incurred in connection with any action, suit or proceeding in
advance of its final disposition) that Indemnitee has not met the standards
of conduct which make it permissible under applicable law for the Company to
indemnify Indemnitee for the amount claimed.  However, Indemnitee shall be
entitled to receive interim payments of expenses pursuant to Subsection 3(a)
unless and until such defense may be finally adjudicated by court order or
judgment from which no further right of appeal exists.  It is the parties'
intention that if the Company contests Indemnitee's right to indemnification,
the question of Indemnitee's right to indemnification shall be for the court
to decide, and neither the failure of the Company (including its Board of
Directors, any committee or subgroup of the Board of Directors, independent
legal counsel, or its stockholders) to have made a determination that
indemnification of Indemnitee is proper in the circumstances because
Indemnitee has met the applicable standard of conduct required by applicable
law, nor an actual determination by the Company (including it Board of
Directors, any committee or subgroup of the Board of Directors, independent
legal counsel, or its stockholders) that Indemnitee has not met such
applicable

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standard of conduct, shall create a presumption that Indemnitee has or has
not met the applicable standard of conduct.

         d) NOTICE TO INSURERS.  If, at the time of the receipt of a notice of
a claim pursuant to Section 3(b) hereof, the Company has director and officer
liability insurance in effect, the Company shall give prompt notice of the
commencement of such proceeding to the insurers in accordance with the
procedures set forth in the respective policies.  The Company shall
thereafter take all necessary or desirable action to cause such insurers to
pay, on behalf of the Indemnitee, all amounts payable as a result of such
proceeding in accordance with the terms of such policies.

         e) SELECTION OF COUNSEL.  In the event the Company shall be
obligated under Section 3(a) hereof to pay the expenses of any proceeding
against Indemnitee, the Company, if appropriate, shall be entitled to assume
the defense of such proceeding, with counsel approved by Indemnitee, upon the
delivery to Indemnitee of written notice of its election to do so.  After
delivery of such notice, approval of such counsel by Indemnitee and the
retention of such counsel by the Company, the Company will not be liable to
Indemnitee under this Agreement for any fees of counsel subsequently incurred
by Indemnitee with respect to the same proceeding, provided that (i)
Indemnitee shall have the right to employ his counsel in any such proceeding
at Indemnitee's expense; and (ii) if (A) the employment of counsel by
Indemnitee has been previously authorized by the Company, (B) Indemnitee
shall have reasonably concluded that there may be a conflict of interest
between the Company and Indemnitee in the conduct of any such defense, or (C)
the Company shall not, in fact, have employed counsel to assume the defense
of such proceeding, then the fees and expenses of Indemnitee's counsel shall
be at the expense of the Company.

     4. ADDITIONAL INDEMNIFICATION RIGHTS; NONEXCLUSIVITY.

        a) SCOPE.  Notwithstanding any other provision of this Agreement, the
Company hereby agrees to indemnify the Indemnitee to the fullest extent
permitted by law, notwithstanding that such indemnification is not
specifically authorized by the other provisions of this Agreement, the
Company's Certificate of Incorporation, the Company's Bylaws or by statute.
In the event of any change, after the date of this Agreement, in any
applicable law, statute, or rule which expands the right of a Delaware
corporation to indemnify a member of its board of directors or an officer,
such changes shall be, ipso facto, within the purview of Indemnitee's rights
and Company's obligations, under this Agreement.  In the event of any change
in any applicable law, statute or rule which narrows the right of a Delaware
corporation to indemnify a member of its board of directors or an officer,
such changes, to the extent not otherwise required by such law, statute or
rule to be applied to this Agreement shall have no effect on this Agreement
or the parties' rights and obligations hereunder.

        b) NONEXCLUSIVITY.  The indemnification provided by this Agreement
shall not be deemed exclusive of any rights to which Indemnitee may be
entitled under the Company's Certificate of Incorporation, its Bylaws, any
agreement, any vote of stockholders or disinterested Directors, the General
Corporation Law of the State of Delaware, or otherwise, both as to action in
Indemnitee's official capacity and as to action in another capacity while
holding such office.  The indemnification provided under this Agreement shall
continue as to Indemnitee for any

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action taken or not taken while serving in an indemnified capacity even
though he may have ceased to serve in such capacity at the time of any
action, suit or other covered proceeding.

     5. PARTIAL INDEMNIFICATION.  If Indemnitee is entitled under any
provision of this Agreement to indemnification by the Company for some or a
portion of the expenses, judgments, fines or penalties actually or reasonably
incurred by him in the investigation, defense, appeal or settlement of any
civil or criminal action, suit or proceeding, but not, however, for the total
amount thereof, the Company shall nevertheless indemnify Indemnitee for the
portion of such expenses, judgments, fines or penalties to which Indemnitee
is entitled.

     6. MUTUAL ACKNOWLEDGEMENT.  Both the Company and Indemnitee acknowledge
that in certain instances, Federal law or applicable public policy may
prohibit the Company from indemnifying its directors and officers under this
Agreement or otherwise.  Indemnitee un derstands and acknowledges that the
Company has undertaken or may be required in the future to undertake with the
Securities and Exchange Commission to submit the question of indemnification
to a court in certain circumstances for a determination of the Company's
right under public policy to indemnify Indemnitee.

     7. OFFICER AND DIRECTOR LIABILITY INSURANCE.  The Company shall, from
time to time, make the good faith determination whether or not it is
practicable for the Company to obtain and maintain a policy or policies of
insurance with reputable insurance companies providing the officers and
directors of the Company with coverage for losses from wrongful acts, or to
ensure the Company's performance of its indemnification obligations under
this Agreement.  Among other considerations, the Company will weigh the costs
of obtaining such insurance coverage against the protection afforded by such
coverage.  In all policies of director and officer liability insurance,
Indemnitee shall be named as an insured in such a manner as to provide
Indemnitee the same rights and benefits as are accorded to the most favorably
insured of the Company's directors, if Indemnitee is a director; or of the
Company's officers, if Indemnitee is not a director of the Company but is an
officer.  Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Company shall have no obligation
to obtain or maintain such insurance if the Company determines in good faith
that such insurance is not reasonably available, if the premium costs for
such insurance are disproportionate to the amount of coverage provided, if
the coverage provided by such insurance is limited by exclusions so as to
provide an insufficient benefit, or if Indemnitee is covered by similar
insurance maintained by a subsidiary or parent of the Company.

     8. SEVERABILITY.  Nothing in this Agreement is intended to require or
shall be construed as requiring the Company to do or fail to do any act in
violation of applicable law.  The Company's inability, pursuant to court
order, to perform its obligations under this Agreement shall not constitute a
breach of this Agreement. The provisions of this Agreement shall be severable
as provided in this Section 8.  If this Agreement or any portion hereof shall
be invalidated on any ground by any court of competent jurisdiction, then the
Company shall nevertheless indemnify Indemnitee to the full extent permitted
by any applicable portion of this Agreement that shall not have been
invalidated, and the balance of this Agreement not so invalidated shall be
enforceable in accordance with its terms.

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     9. EXCEPTIONS.  Any other provision herein to the contrary
notwithstanding, the Company shall not be obligated pursuant to the terms of
this Agreement:

         a) CLAIMS INITIATED BY INDEMNITEE.  To indemnify or advance expenses
to Indemnitee with respect to proceedings or claims initiated or brought
voluntarily by Indemnitee and not by way of defense, except with respect to
proceedings brought to establish or enforce a right to indemnification under
this Agreement or any other statute or law or otherwise as required under
Section 145 of the Delaware General Corporation Law, but such indemnification
or advancement of expenses may be provided by the Company in specific cases
if the Board of Directors has approved the initiation or bringing of such
suit; or

         b) Lack of Good Faith.  To indemnify Indemnitee for any expenses
incurred by the Indemnitee with respect to any proceeding instituted by
Indemnitee to enforce or interpret this Agreement, if a court of competent
jurisdiction determines that each of the material assertions made by the
Indemnitee in such proceeding was not made in good faith or was frivolous; or

         c) Insured Claims.  To indemnify Indemnitee for expenses or
liabilities of any type whatsoever (including, but not limited to, judgments,
fines, ERISA excise taxes or penalties, and amounts paid in settlement) which
have been paid directly to Indemnitee by an insurance carrier under a policy
of officers' and directors' liability insurance maintained by the Company.

         d) Claims Under Section 16(b).  To indemnify Indemnitee for expenses
and the payment of profits arising from the purchase and sale by Indemnitee
of securities in violation of Section 16(b) of the Securities Exchange Act of
1934, as amended, or any similar successor statute.

     10. CONSTRUCTION OF CERTAIN PHRASES.

         a) For purposes of this Agreement, references to the "Company" shall
include, in addition to the resulting corporation, any constituent
corporation (including any constituent of a constituent) absorbed in a
consolidation or merger which, if its separate existence had continued, would
have had power and authority to indemnify its directors, officers, and
employees or agents, so that if Indemnitee is or was a director, officer,
employee or agent of such constituent corporation, or is or was serving at
the request of such constituent corporation as a director, officer, employee
or agent of another corporation, partnership, joint venture, trust or other
enterprise, Indemnitee shall stand in the same position under the provisions
of this Agreement with respect to the resulting or surviving corporation as
Indemnitee would have with respect to such constituent corporation if its
separate existence had continued.

        b) For purposes of this Agreement, references to "other enterprises"
shall include employee benefit plans; references to "fines" shall include any
excise taxes assessed on Indemnitee with respect to an employee benefit plan;
and references to "serving at the request of the Company" shall include any
service as a director, officer, employee or agent of the Company which
imposes duties on, or involves services by, such director, officer, employee
or agent with respect to an employee benefit plan, its participants, or
beneficiaries; and if Indemnitee acted in good faith and in a manner
Indemnitee reasonably believed to be in the interest of the participants

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and beneficiaries of an employee benefit plan, Indemnitee shall be deemed to
have acted in a manner "not opposed to the best interests of the Company" as
referred to in this Agreement.

     11. COUNTERPARTS.  This Agreement may be executed in one or more
counterparts, each of which shall constitute an original.

     12. SUCCESSORS AND ASSIGNS.  This Agreement shall be binding upon the
Company and its successors and assigns, and shall inure to the benefit of
Indemnitee and Indemnitee's estate, heirs, legal representatives and assigns.

     13. ATTORNEYS' FEES.  In the event that any action is instituted by
Indemnitee under this Agreement to enforce or interpret any of the terms
hereof, Indemnitee shall be entitled to be paid all court costs and expenses,
including reasonable attorneys' fees, incurred by Indemnitee with respect to
such action, unless as a part of such action, the court of competent
jurisdiction determines that each of the material assertions made by
Indemnitee as a basis for such action were not made in good faith or were
frivolous.  In the event of an action instituted by or in the name of the
Company under this Agreement or to enforce or interpret any of the terms of
this Agreement, Indemnitee shall be entitled to be paid all court costs and
expenses, including attorneys' fees, incurred by Indemnitee in defense of
such action (including with respect to Indemnitee's counterclaims and
crossclaims made in such action), unless as a part of such action the court
determines that each of Indemnitee's material defenses to such action were
made in bad faith or were frivolous.

     14. NOTICE.  All notices, requests, demands and other communications
under this Agreement shall be in writing and shall be deemed duly given (i)
if delivered by hand and receipted for by the party addressee, on the date of
such receipt, or (ii) if mailed by domestic certified or registered mail with
postage prepaid, on the third business day after the date postmarked.
Addresses for notice to either party are as shown on the signature page of
this Agreement, or as subsequently modified by written notice.

     15. CONSENT TO JURISDICTION.  The Company and Indemnitee each hereby
irrevocably consent to the jurisdiction of the courts of the State of
Delaware for all purposes in connection with any action or proceeding which
arises out of or relates to this Agreement and agree that any action
instituted under this Agreement shall be brought only in the state courts of
the State of Delaware.

     16. CHOICE OF LAW.  This Agreement shall be governed by and its provisions
construed in accordance with the laws of the State of Delaware, as applied to
contracts between Delaware residents entered into and to be performed
entirely within Delaware without regard to the conflict of law principles
thereof.

     17. PERIOD OF LIMITATIONS.  No legal action shall be brought and no
cause of action shall be asserted by or in the right of the Company against
Indemnitee, Indemnitee's estate, spouse, heirs, executors or personal or
legal representatives after the expiration of two years from the date of
accrual of such cause of action, and any claim or cause of action of the
Company shall be extinguished and deemed released unless asserted by the
timely filing of a legal action within

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such two-year period; provided, however, that if any shorter period of
limitations is otherwise applicable to any such cause of action, such shorter
period shall govern.

     18. SUBROGATION.  In the event of payment under this Agreement, the
Company shall be subrogated to the extent of such payment to all of the
rights of recovery of Indemnitee, who shall execute all documents required
and shall do all acts that may be necessary to secure such rights and to
enable the Company effectively to bring suit to enforce such rights.

     19. AMENDMENT AND TERMINATION.  No amendment, modification, termination
or cancellation of this Agreement shall be effective unless it is in writing
signed by both the parties hereto.  No waiver of any of the provisions of
this Agreement shall be deemed or shall constitute a waiver of any other
provisions hereof (whether or not similar) nor shall such waiver constitute a
continuing waiver.

     20. INTEGRATION AND ENTIRE AGREEMENT.  This Agreement sets forth the
entire understanding between the parties hereto and supersedes and merges all
previous written and oral negotiations, commitments, understandings and
agreements relating to the subject matter hereof between the parties hereto.

     IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have executed this Agreement as
of the date first above written.

                                    marchFIRST, Inc.

                                    By:_____________________________________
                                       President and Chief Executive Officer

                                       Address: 311 South Wacker Drive
                                                Suite 3500
                                                Chicago, Illinois 60606

AGREED TO AND ACCEPTED:

INDEMNITEE:

_____________________________________
(signature)

Address:

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