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ComEd: On track to restore power by Sunday night

While around 31,500, most in the Northwest and North suburbs remained without electrical power Saturday night in the wake of Friday's violent storms, ComEd officials said repair crews were making progress and that almost all service is expected to be restored by Sunday night.

Most of the outages were caused by broken limbs and uprooted trees falling onto power lines.

“There was a lot of wind,” said John Schoen, a ComEd spokesman, said Saturday. “The Northwest suburbs got hit hardest.”

The storms knocked out power for more than 174,000 customers. Service had been restored to 142,500 by Saturday evening, according to an update on ComEd's website.

Elgin, one of the hardest hit towns, had approximately 7,940 customers without power Saturday morning, with power restored to approximately 17,810 customers, city officials said.

Other areas that were hit hard included Arlington Heights and Palatine, ComEd said. As of 2 p.m. Saturday afternoon, around 20 percent of Palatine remained without power, according to a storm update email sent out by the village.

ComEd mobilized roughly 470 ComEd and contract crews, including 26 crews from Ameren in downstate Illinois, to restore power as quickly as possible. It dispatched two mobile command vehicles to the areas that were most severely impacted. And it opened a Joint Operations Center in Mount Prospect to enable better communication with the most heavily damaged municipalities in the area.

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