Ice storm leaves nearly 100,000 without power, closes schools

Wednesday's ice storm has left nearly 100,000 ComEd customers without power and caused several suburban schools to cancel classes today. ComEd is r...

February 23, 2023
9:12 PM

Wednesday's ice storm has left nearly 100,000 ComEd customers without power and caused several suburban schools to cancel classes today. ComEd is reporting the outages mainly in the northern suburbs, which bore the brunt of Wednesday's storm. In a statement on the company's outage map site , ComEd officials said "we expect 80% of outages in your region to be restored by Thursday evening and the majority of our remaining outages restored by Saturday evening." Elgin Area U-46 officials reported the outages caused them to cancel classes today at 10 schools.

Jake Griffin