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ComEd: 99% Restoration by Late Friday
The hardest hit northern region, which includes Algonquin, still has 125,000 homes without power this morning.
For residents who are still without power following a short, violent windstorm, power has been restored to more than 70 percent of ComEd's customers, but it still may take a few more days to get everyone back on the line.
ComEd expects to have power restored for 90 percent of its customers by Thursday at midnight, and have a 99 percent restoration rate by midnight on Friday.
As of 8 a.m. July 13, ComEd has restored power to 675,000 customers.
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Still, 193,000 customers, or nearly 30 percent, have been without power for more than 48 hours.
Most of those customers are in the northern region, which includes Crystal Lake, where 125,000 are still without power.
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A spokesman for ComEd said there were 700 crews in the field working to restore power coming from as far as Florida, Alabama and Pennsylvania.
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