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ComEd: Residents Will Likely Have to Wait Until Friday for Power
According to the village officials in La Grange and La Grange Park, residents can expect their power turned back on by midnight on Thursday, though some will still need to wait until Saturday.
In updates released today, officials from La Grange and La Grange Park said some residents might have to wait as long as Saturday to get their power back.
About 1,100 ComEd customers in La Grange Park and about 1,800 customers in La Grange are still without power tonight, according to village officials. In the Chicagoland area, about 340,000 are still without power.
In both villages, ComEd has said that about 90 percent of residents should have power again by midnight on Thursday. Additionally, 99 percent should be back on the grid by Saturday morning.
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Village officials also said that ComEd is warning residents that even after power is back on brief outages may continue as crews keep working. The outages, ComEd said, generally last about 30-60 minutes.
ComEd has provided this website to show residents where problems with their power might be stemming from, and whether it is ComEd's responsibly to fix, or the owners. You can visit the page here.
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