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More Than 600,000 ComEd Outages Reported

Monday storms cause 280,000 outages in the North suburbs.

Update 12:30 p.m.:

sent an email out alerting Highland Park residents with no power that and the are open if you'd like to charge your cell phone or laptop.

Rotering with ComEd at the last City Council meeting.

Update 11:00 a.m.:

Park District of Highland Park facilities the , Hidden Creek AquaPark and are closed due to power outages or storm damage.

Earlier:

More than 615,000 Chicago-area Commonwealth Edison customers are presently without electricity after this morning's storms, according to The Huffington Post Chicago.

Approximately 45 percent of these outages (280,000) are localized across the northern suburbs.

A ComEd official said there are more than 450 crew members repairing storm outages. A timetable was not given as to when electricity would be up and running.

To view a detailed map from ComEd or for more information, click here. If you are without power call 1800-Edison1 or report the incident here. 

D July 12, 2011 at 02:33 am
Why can't ComEd provide reliable power? Why don't they have enough resources to fix problems when they do occur? Seems like they are totally unprepared for summer storms. Bringing in crews from as far away as Pennsylvania is not adequate plan. Is it going to be 4 days without power again?

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