ComEd Update: 500 Without Power in Wilmette

Roughly 500 ComEd customers in Wilmette are without power as of Thursday afternoon, according to an e-alert from the village.

Representatives from the power company told Wilmette officials during a conference that all outages should be repaired by Friday at midnight.

However, if "outages continue into the weekend, all open Park District facilities are available as cooling centers," while the will be available as an after hours, emergency cooling center, the alert states.

Meanwhile ComEd has restored power to 95 percent of affected Illinois customers by midnight Thursday. Out of 850,000 customers, that means just under 43,000 people are still without electric power. Additionally, more than 50 miles of electrical wire and 300 poles have been replaced.

“We understand that patience can be challenging particularly for those customers who are still without power,” said Frank M. Clark, ComEd chairman and chief executive officer. “We are using all the resources available to us, including crews from more than a dozen states, allowing us to restore service faster than any time in the last decade.”