When's the Power Back?

Power restored in Lake County, IL after outage that peaked at 66,204 customers

Electricity is back for most of Lake County after an outage that peaked at 66,204 customers out; service was affected for roughly 2 days.

When's the Power Back? editorial · published Jul 27, 1:48 PM CDT · updated Jul 30, 2:05 PM CDT · human-reviewed before publication · corrections: contact us
Power restored
peak of 66,204 customers out · outage lasted roughly 2 days
How it developed8,137 peakJul 29, 10:20 AM CDTJul 29, 1:00 PM CDT
Jul 29, 10:20 AM CDT — 8,137 out · Jul 29, 10:35 AM CDT — 7,818 out · Jul 29, 10:50 AM CDT — 7,658 out · Jul 29, 11:05 AM CDT — 7,596 out · Jul 29, 11:20 AM CDT — 7,521 out · Jul 29, 11:35 AM CDT — 7,504 out · Jul 29, 11:50 AM CDT — 7,385 out · Jul 29, 12:05 PM CDT — 7,642 out · Jul 29, 12:20 PM CDT — 7,285 out · Jul 29, 12:35 PM CDT — 6,871 out · Jul 29, 12:50 PM CDT — 6,331 out · Jul 29, 1:00 PM CDT — 6,331 out
Track it live: the numbers above were frozen when this article was published — the live page for Lake County updates about every 15 minutes with current counts, the utility's latest restoration time, and our estimate.