200 Lose Power After Tuesday Night Storm

Last night's knocked power out for 140,000 ComEd customers in the Chicagoland area. 

Of those, 200 live in Highland Park, according to the city's website.

ComEd currently has crews working to restore power, a process the city expects to be complete by the end of the day.

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The outages continue a string of trouble ComEd has been having in Highland Park throughout the summer. The utility has come under fire from Highland Park , and  upset by the thousands of outages they experienced after storms in June and July as well as a delayed restoration process.

“If you don’t know it, don’t say it,” Highland Park City Manager Dave Limardi at a July 29 meeting in Lake Forest. “My residents are tearing the faces off my staff because we don’t get information from ComEd."

Patch columnist Ed Brill discussed ComEd in Wednesday's :

Over the last eight weeks, Highland Park officials and neighbors have struggled to define what "normal" really is for our 

Even though all four places I've lived in Highland Park have been served by underground wiring, the occasional outage resulting from storms or high demand seems normal to me. But after the most recent outage, I asked my Facebook friends -- who live all over the U.S. and the world -- what normal electrical service means to them. Most of the respondents said they never suffer outages. If they do, the outages are brief, exceptional events. 

Which means we have a problem here at home.

Keep checking back for outage updates.