When will the power be back in Pekin, IL?

Pekin is a city of about 31,266 residents in Tazewell County.

Ameren has reported outages for Pekin by name on its own public outage map (most recently observed 2026-09-18) — so when Pekin 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 Pekin:

• 61554
• 61555
• 61558

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Around Pekin: the closest other places we track are East Peoria, about 8 miles to the northeast; Morton, about 9 miles to the east; Peoria, about 13 miles to the north; and Washington, about 14 miles to the northeast. Also nearby: Canton (22 mi W), Lincoln (32 mi SE), Normal (33 mi E), Bloomington (35 mi E), Galesburg (47 mi NW), Kewanee (49 mi N), Springfield (55 mi S) and Macomb (56 mi W).

Looking further out, the nearest place we track is: north toward Sterling (85 mi); northeast toward Pontiac (56 mi); east toward Mahomet (70 mi); southeast toward Decatur (61 mi); south toward Chatham (62 mi); southwest toward Jacksonville (66 mi); west toward Burlington, IA (80 mi); and northwest toward East Moline (77 mi).

Pekin's last tracked outage began Sep 30, peaked at 71 customers out, and was restored in an hour. Across the 6 outages tracked here, the typical (median) restoration ran 2 hours.

• Sep 30 — 71 customers out, restored in an hour
• Sep 28 — 74 customers out, restored in 3 hours
• Sep 21 — 51 customers out, restored in 2 hours
• Sep 16 — 50 customers out, restored in 2 hours