Winds cause power outages
Falling tree limbs caused by high winds knocked out power to thousands of ComEd customers Thursday afternoon, but much of the service has since been restored.
Power lines were reportedly down in Grayslake and Fox Lake. A ComEd map shows outages in Crystal Lake, Aurora, Mount Prospect, Libertyville. About 230 customers in Elgin were without power for more than an hour after a tree limb touched power lines on the east side.
ComEd spokesman Jeff Burdick said the Elgin incident was representative of outages across the area. Burdick said there were 10,000 customers without power systemwide as of 7 p.m. Much of those customers are located south of Chicago.
"The system has been scattered with outages, many due to tree contact," Burdick said. "There haven't been too many large scale outages ... they have been scattered from a handful to a few hundred."
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