When's the Power Back?

When will the power be back in Cicero, IL?

See current outages near you, plus an independent restoration forecast when enough trend data exists · Cook County, Illinois
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customers reported out in Cook, Illinois · updated 9:15 PM CDT · utility data as of 9:16 PM CDT
Official restoration time (ComEd): ~9.5 hr from now
County-wide restoration outlook: ~6 min to restore at the current pace (roughly 288 customers an hour)
🎯 Likely 0.1–0.2 hr — based on how accurate our past estimates like this have been.
Reported by the utility's own live outage data — this county isn't included in the slower nationwide county tally.
Showing County-wide data because we don't have Cicero-specific numbers right now — your neighborhood may be restored earlier or later.
Open the live outage map Report an outage — official utility site ↗
Utility informationOur restoration forecast
Official ETA, when the utility posts oneIndependent estimated return window when trend data allows — often available first
Utility-reported status & customer countsConfidence range + whether the outage is growing, stable, or restoring

How the forecast works: we analyze how quickly customers are being restored, whether the outage is still growing, current weather, outage size, and similar past outages in this area. Every completed forecast is compared with when power actually returned. As of Aug 19, 7,878 completed outages have been graded this way — median error 2 hours across the most recent 600 of them (about 1.9 days), and we publish the misses. See the full record (how it works). Independent and unofficial: never the utility's commitment.

Track current power outages in Cicero, Illinois — customers reported out, restoration progress, active weather alerts, and an independent restoration estimate. Cicero is a town in Cook County; when the serving utility's public feed reports Cicero directly, this page shows the city's own outage count and restoration time, with the county-wide view as context.

What we track for Cicero

Cicero is a town of about 82,090 residents in Cook County.

ComEd has reported outages for Cicero by name on its own public outage map (most recently observed 2026-08-17) — so when Cicero is affected, this page can show the city's own customers-out count and restoration time rather than only the county-wide total.

ZIP codes in Cicero: 60804 Checking a ZIP goes straight to the address-level view for that area.

Around Cicero: the closest other places we track are Berwyn, about 2 miles to the west; Forest Park, about 3 miles to the northwest; Oak Park, about 3 miles to the northwest; Lyons, about 4 miles to the southwest. Also nearby: Chicago (4 mi E), River Forest (5 mi NW), Brookfield (5 mi W), Summit (5 mi SW), Maywood (5 mi NW), La Grange Park (6 mi W), Elmwood Park (6 mi NW), La Grange (6 mi SW). Looking further out, the nearest place we track is: north toward Norridge (9 mi); southeast toward Riverdale (15 mi); south toward Burbank (7 mi); southwest toward Justice (8 mi); west toward Westchester (7 mi); northwest toward Bellwood (7 mi).

Who serves Cicero?

We track live outage data from ComEd in Cook County — but several utilities can serve one county, so confirm your own by searching your address on the live map. See the forecast panel above for how the estimate works — its inputs, its independence from the utility, and how every completed forecast is scored against what actually happened. Outages below 5 customers are too small for a meaningful area-wide estimate — the page says so instead of guessing.

Recent outages tracked in Cicero

Cicero's last tracked outage began Aug 16, peaked at 25 customers out, and was restored in 3 hours. Across the 3 outages tracked here, the typical (median) restoration ran 2 hours.

  • Aug 16 — 25 customers out, restored in 3 hours
  • Aug 16 — 71 customers out, restored in 50 minutes
  • Aug 14 — 72 customers out, restored in 2 hours
Tracked by this site's own monitoring of the serving utilities' live feeds (outages of 25+ customers; times are US Eastern). These recent, city-level outages build on the longer-term federal record below.
Longer-term outage history — Cook County, IL (covers Cicero)
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.

Common questions

When will my power be back on in Cicero, IL?

It depends on the cause and how many crews are working. When's the Power Back? combines the live outage count, the current restoration rate, weather, and local history into an independent estimate for the Cicero area — shown even before your utility posts an official restoration time. Check the live power outage status at the top of this page. For context from Cicero's own record: across the 3 outages this site has tracked here, the typical (median) restoration ran 2 hours — the outage-history panel above lists them.

How do I check the power outage status in Cicero, IL?

This page is a live power outage status check for the Cicero area: current customers out, the affected areas on the map, and an independent restoration forecast when enough trend data is available, refreshed about every 15 minutes from utilities' own outage maps and the federal government's county outage data. To narrow it to your own street, search a Cicero ZIP code — 60804 — and the map opens on that area. Your utility's own outage map remains the official word for your account.

How do I report a power outage in Cicero, IL?

Report it to your electric utility — crews are dispatched from customer reports. Utilities tracked in Cook County include ComEd; confirm your own provider, then use its outage line or website. Reporting a downed line helps crews find the fault faster. In a life-threatening emergency, call 911.

Does this page show Cicero specifically, or the whole county?

Both, and for Cicero we have the city-level view: ComEd has published outages for Cicero under its own name, most recently seen on 2026-08-17. When Cicero is affected, you get its own customers-out count and restoration time, with the Cook County county-wide total shown separately as context. Don't add the two together — the county figure already includes Cicero.

How accurate is the restoration estimate?

Every estimate is later graded against when the tracked outage was substantially restored (~90% of customers back), and the track record is published on our accuracy page. Estimates firm up a few hours into an outage once a steady restoration trend appears; very small outages are marked "too small to estimate" rather than guessed.

Cicero, IL — live power outage tracker