See current outages near you, plus an independent restoration forecast when enough trend data exists · Illinois
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customers reported out in Cook County, IL
Reported by the utility's own live outage data — this county isn't included in the slower nationwide county tally.
Official restoration time (ComEd): Oct 4, 2:00 PM CDT· its own reports for places here carry 2 different times, the earliest Oct 4, 1:30 AM CDT
County-wide restoration outlook: no clear recovery trend yet — past outages here of any size in the same kind of weather ran ~16 hr start to finish (22 on record)
County-wide data — your specific neighborhood or circuit may be restored earlier or later.
🔔 Check back after the next update, or keep me updated — we'll alert you when a dependable restoration estimate is ready.
Updated 10:35 PM CDT.
422county-wide trend of customers without power · last 5.7 days · tap or hover a point to see its number
Communities with reported outages — from the utilities that publish city-by-city detail for this county
Maywood — 14 customers reported out · utility est. Oct 4, 1:30 AM CDT
Chicago — 8 customers reported out · utility est. Oct 4, 2:00 PM CDT
⚡ No power in Cook, IL? We'll notify you when the outage we're tracking looks mostly restored.
An alert when an outage is detected here, another once a dependable restoration estimate is ready, and an all-clear when the outage we're tracking looks substantially restored (~90% of customers back). No email, no account — anonymous usage stats only.
County-wide coverage, with utility detail where available. Serving utilities tracked here include ComEd, alongside the nationwide county-by-county tally. Village of Winnetka also serves parts of this county — we don't yet read its own live outage map. Multiple utilities serve parts of this area — enter a street address above for your exact provider.
Outage history — Cook County, IL
Last significant outage: Oct 1, 2026 — peaked at 1,259 customers, restored in ~2.3 days (weather alert).
Across the 40 significant outages tracked here, restoration typically ran about 19.2 hr.
This county-level list covers larger outages (about 200+ customers at peak, lasting 30 minutes or more) — oldest listed: Aug 7, 2026. Smaller or briefer interruptions aren't listed.
Longer-term outage history — Cook County, IL
Federal outage records (EAGLE-I, kept by the U.S. Department of Energy) show
3,583 notable outages (200+ customers at peak) here between 2014 and 2025 — including 59 major events of 10,000+ customers.
Typical restoration ran ~12.5 hr (median), and outages here have been most common in spring.
That is longer than the Illinois norm in the same records, where the typical outage ran ~2.8 hr.
Largest on record: ~279,858 customers out in August 2020, restored after about 5.4 days. The busiest year on record here was 2023.
Source: EAGLE-I (Oak Ridge National Laboratory / U.S. Department of Energy), county-level
records 2014–2025 measured by the same rules as our tracking archive above, over a far longer period than we have been tracking — the same method, a different set of outages. These are federal historical records,
not events tracked live by this site.
Communities in Cook County include Chicago, Cicero, Schaumburg, Evanston, Arlington Heights, Palatine, Skokie and Des Plaines. Searches and the live map cover every address in the county, named here or not.
Common questions
How do I report a power outage in Cook County, IL?
Report it to your electric utility — crews are dispatched from customer reports. Utilities serving parts of Cook include ComEd and Village of Winnetka — service areas overlap and county lines don't decide your provider, so confirm yours, then use its outage line or website. Reporting a downed line also helps crews find the fault faster. In a life-threatening emergency, call 911.
