When will the power be back in Mount Prospect, IL?
Our restoration forecast is independent and unofficial, never the utility's commitment. How it works · How accurate it has been
Mount Prospect is a village of about 55,460 residents in Cook County.
ComEd has reported outages for Mount Prospect by name on its own public outage map (most recently observed 2026-08-21) — so when Mount Prospect 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 Mount Prospect:
Checking a ZIP goes straight to the address-level view for that area.
Around Mount Prospect: the closest other places we track are Des Plaines, about 3 miles to the southeast; Prospect Heights, about 3 miles to the north; Arlington Heights, about 3 miles to the northwest; and Rolling Meadows, about 5 miles to the west. Also nearby: Wheeling (5 mi N), Elk Grove Village (5 mi SW), Park Ridge (6 mi SE), Glenview (6 mi E), Palatine (7 mi NW), Northbrook (7 mi NE), Niles (7 mi E) and Wood Dale (7 mi S).
Looking further out, the nearest place we track is: north toward Buffalo Grove (7 mi); northeast toward Deerfield (8 mi); east toward Morton Grove (8 mi); southeast toward Schiller Park (8 mi); south toward Bensenville (7 mi); southwest toward Roselle (10 mi); west toward Schaumburg (8 mi); and northwest toward Barrington (11 mi).
Who serves Mount Prospect?
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. Village of Winnetka also serves parts of Cook County — we don't yet read its own live outage map.
Mount Prospect's last tracked outage began Oct 1, peaked at 271 customers out, and was restored in an hour. Across the 5 outages tracked here, the typical (median) restoration ran 3 hours.
- Oct 1 — 271 customers out, restored in an hour
- Sep 30 — 723 customers out, restored in 5 hours
- Sep 22 — 55 customers out, restored in 3 hours
- Sep 17 — 99 customers out, restored in 4 hours
County context: across all of Cook County, federal outage records (EAGLE-I, 2014–2025) show outages of 200+ customers typically restored in about 12.5 hr. The full record for Cook County
Common questions
How do I check the power outage status in Mount Prospect, IL?
To check your own street, search a Mount Prospect ZIP code — 60056 — and the map opens on that area.
