When's the Power Back?

Power restored in DuPage County, IL after outage that peaked at 80,566 customers

Electricity is back for most of DuPage County after an outage that peaked at 80,566 customers out; service was affected for roughly 2.3 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 80,566 customers out · outage lasted roughly 2.3 days
How it developed9,730 peakJul 29, 4:20 PM CDTJul 29, 7:00 PM CDT
Jul 29, 4:20 PM CDT — 9,730 out · Jul 29, 4:35 PM CDT — 9,498 out · Jul 29, 4:50 PM CDT — 9,405 out · Jul 29, 5:05 PM CDT — 9,079 out · Jul 29, 5:20 PM CDT — 9,147 out · Jul 29, 5:35 PM CDT — 8,999 out · Jul 29, 5:50 PM CDT — 8,354 out · Jul 29, 6:05 PM CDT — 8,658 out · Jul 29, 6:20 PM CDT — 8,242 out · Jul 29, 6:35 PM CDT — 8,172 out · Jul 29, 6:50 PM CDT — 7,910 out · Jul 29, 7:00 PM CDT — 7,910 out
Track it live: the numbers above were frozen when this article was published — the live page for DuPage County updates about every 15 minutes with current counts, the utility's latest restoration time, and our estimate.