© commonwealth edison company, 2024. Comed’s efforts to tackle the widespread outages are in full swing, spanning from winneka to joliet, chicago, and kankakee. Additional crews were dispatched to kankakee.

Understanding the Context

As of 2 a. m. Wednesday, comed’s outage map showed over 11,000 customers in the des plaines/mount prospect area without power. You can track comed power outages in your area here.

Key Insights

Around 4:30 a. m. , a severe thunderstorm warning was issued for dupage county, accompanied by winds of up to. According to the map, more than 10,000 customers in lake county were without power. A message posted to comed's website said crews expect to restore 80% of outages.

Final Thoughts

Thousands of comed customers across northern illinois were left without power tuesday. Comed has avoided more than 17 million outages for customers, saving more than $3 billion in outage costs. Utilities must continue to invest in the power grid to address severe weather and. As of 9 a. m. , over 100,000 comed customers remained without power, the utility company's outage map showed.

The majority of those outages were in cook county, where. Comed has recently launched on interactive online power outage tracker. With this tool, customers can view current outages in their area, report outages and even enroll in. According to comed's outage map, over 31,000 customers are without power as of 6:40 p.