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Close to 70,000 still without power after storms | |
July 25, 2012 A line of strong thunderstorms swept through the Chicago area early Tuesday, knocking out power to more than 300,000 ComEd customers. As of 7 p.m. Tuesday, 69,500 customers remained without power, while more than 400 ComEd crews were in the field, according to a company spokeswoman. She said the utility hopes to have the majority of the outages restored by Thursday night. Source: http://dailyherald.com/article/20120724/news/707249932/ |