When's the Power Back?

When will the power be back in Rolling Meadows, 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 Rolling Meadows · live from ComEd (Chicago, IL) · updated 9:18 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 Rolling Meadows 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 Rolling Meadows, Illinois — customers reported out, restoration progress, active weather alerts, and an independent restoration estimate. Rolling Meadows is a city in Cook County; when the serving utility's public feed reports Rolling Meadows directly, this page shows the city's own outage count and restoration time, with the county-wide view as context.

What we track for Rolling Meadows

Rolling Meadows is a city of about 23,732 residents in Cook County.

None of the utility outage maps we follow has yet listed an outage for Rolling Meadows by name, so this page reports the Cook County county-wide view, which covers Rolling Meadows. If a serving utility does name Rolling Meadows during an outage, the city's own numbers appear here automatically.

ZIP codes in Rolling Meadows: 60008 Checking a ZIP goes straight to the address-level view for that area.

Around Rolling Meadows: the closest other places we track are Arlington Heights, about 3 miles to the northeast; Palatine, about 3 miles to the north; Schaumburg, about 4 miles to the southwest; Mount Prospect, about 5 miles to the east. Also nearby: Elk Grove Village (5 mi S), Prospect Heights (5 mi E), Hoffman Estates (6 mi W), Wheeling (6 mi NE), Des Plaines (7 mi SE), Roselle (7 mi SW), Barrington (7 mi NW), Wood Dale (8 mi S). Looking further out, the nearest place we track is: east toward Glenview (10 mi); southeast toward Bensenville (9 mi); south toward Bloomingdale (9 mi); southwest toward Streamwood (9 mi); west toward Carpentersville (14 mi); northwest toward Cary (15 mi).

Who serves Rolling Meadows?

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.

Outage history — Cook County, IL (covers Rolling Meadows)
Last significant outage: Aug 15, 2026 — peaked at 4,390 customers, restored in ~29.5 hr (weather alert).
Across the 14 significant outages tracked here, restoration typically ran about 29.5 hr.
This county-level list covers larger outages (about 200+ customers at peak, lasting 30 minutes or more) — oldest listed: Jul 22, 2026. Smaller or briefer interruptions aren't listed.
Longer-term outage history — Cook County, IL (covers Rolling Meadows)
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 Rolling Meadows, 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 Rolling Meadows 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 Rolling Meadows, IL?

This page is a live power outage status check for the Rolling Meadows 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 Rolling Meadows ZIP code — 60008 — 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 Rolling Meadows, 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 Rolling Meadows specifically, or the whole county?

Right now, the Cook County county-wide view, which covers Rolling Meadows. No utility outage map we follow has yet listed an outage for Rolling Meadows by name; utilities here have so far reported only county-wide totals, or used area names we cannot match to Rolling Meadows. If that changes during an outage, the city's own count and restoration time appear here automatically. Arlington Heights (3 mi NE) is the closest place we track separately.

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.

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