When's the Power Back?

When will the power be back in Oak Lawn, 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 Oak Lawn · live from ComEd (Chicago, IL) · updated 9:16 PM CDT
Across the whole county (Cook, Illinois, all utilities): 37 reported out — a broader count from a different source; don't add it to the Oak Lawn figure above.
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 Oak Lawn, Illinois — customers reported out, restoration progress, active weather alerts, and an independent restoration estimate. Oak Lawn is a village in Cook County; when the serving utility's public feed reports Oak Lawn directly, this page shows the city's own outage count and restoration time, with the county-wide view as context.

What we track for Oak Lawn

Oak Lawn is a village of about 56,531 residents in Cook County.

ComEd has reported outages for Oak Lawn by name on its own public outage map (most recently observed 2026-08-16) — so when Oak Lawn 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 Oak Lawn: 60453 · 60454 Checking a ZIP goes straight to the address-level view for that area.

Around Oak Lawn: the closest other places we track are Chicago Ridge, about 2 miles to the southwest; Burbank, about 2 miles to the north; Worth, about 3 miles to the southwest; Evergreen Park, about 3 miles to the east. Also nearby: Alsip (3 mi S), Bridgeview (3 mi NW), Hickory Hills (4 mi W), Palos Hills (4 mi W), Palos Heights (4 mi SW), Crestwood (5 mi S), Justice (5 mi NW), Blue Island (5 mi SE). Looking further out, the nearest place we track is: north toward Cicero (9 mi); east toward East Chicago, IN (16 mi); southeast toward Riverdale (8 mi); south toward Midlothian (6 mi); southwest toward Orland Park (9 mi); west toward Burr Ridge (9 mi); northwest toward Summit (6 mi).

Who serves Oak Lawn?

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 Oak Lawn

Oak Lawn's last tracked outage began Aug 16, peaked at 46 customers out, and was restored in 4 hours.

  • Aug 16 — 46 customers out, restored in 4 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 Oak Lawn)
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 Oak Lawn, 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 Oak Lawn area — shown even before your utility posts an official restoration time. Check the live power outage status at the top of this page.

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

This page is a live power outage status check for the Oak Lawn 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 Oak Lawn ZIP code — 60453, 60454 — 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 Oak Lawn, 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 Oak Lawn specifically, or the whole county?

Both, and for Oak Lawn we have the city-level view: ComEd has published outages for Oak Lawn under its own name, most recently seen on 2026-08-16. When Oak Lawn 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 Oak Lawn.

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.

Oak Lawn, IL — live power outage tracker