When's the Power Back?

Power restored in Cook County, IL after outage that peaked at 164,406 customers

Electricity is back for most of Cook County after an outage that peaked at 164,406 customers out; service was affected for roughly 3 days.

When's the Power Back? editorial · published Jul 27, 12:44 PM CDT · updated Jul 30, 2:05 PM CDT · human-reviewed before publication · corrections: contact us
Power restored
peak of 164,406 customers out · outage lasted roughly 3 days
How it developed22,555 peakJul 29, 8:35 PM CDTJul 30, 1:15 PM CDT
Jul 29, 8:35 PM CDT — 22,555 out · Jul 30, 10:50 AM CDT — 17,442 out · Jul 30, 11:05 AM CDT — 17,360 out · Jul 30, 11:20 AM CDT — 17,416 out · Jul 30, 11:35 AM CDT — 17,675 out · Jul 30, 11:50 AM CDT — 17,266 out · Jul 30, 12:05 PM CDT — 16,889 out · Jul 30, 12:20 PM CDT — 16,616 out · Jul 30, 12:35 PM CDT — 16,608 out · Jul 30, 12:50 PM CDT — 16,555 out · Jul 30, 1:05 PM CDT — 15,921 out · Jul 30, 1:15 PM CDT — 15,921 out
Track it live: the numbers above were frozen when this article was published — the live page for Cook County updates about every 15 minutes with current counts, the utility's latest restoration time, and our estimate.