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More than 2,700 Hinsdale Residents Without Power Monday Afternoon

According to deputy police chief, ComEd is still saying restoration will take multiple days.|

Updated at 3:48 p.m.

The lights are out for 2,739 Hinsdale residents Monday afternoon according to Deputy Hinsdale Police Chief Kevin Simpson after a quick but powerful storm hit Monday morning.

In an email sent at 3:42 p.m., Simpson said ComEd has said only that restoration will be a multi-day effort.

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Monday morning, Hinsdale Police Chief Brad Bloom had been given the same restoration estimation when he said two-thirds of the community was without power. 

“Because the storm was so widespread, we’ve been advised [by ComEd] that it’s going to be a multi-day response,” Bloom said.

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ComEd confirmed the multi-day response time Monday morning. The utility's media relations office said 378 crews are out working to restore power for 660,000 customers in the Chicago area are without electricity Monday morning. Approximately 156,000 of those customers are in the west region.

In the north suburbs, there are 298,000 affected customers and 90,000 in the south. According to ComEd the utility has requested support from surrounding states. 

According to a Chicago Tribune story Monday morning, storms that passed through the Chicago area contained wind gusts that reached 75 mph.

Bloom said he was told the storm front was 30 miles wide. He’s not aware of any significant property damage or of any injuries as a result of the storm.

Bloom said felled trees are blocking a lot of Hinsdale’s roads. The chief said there are many damaged trees, but not as many as the June 21 storm.

In Clarendon Hills, Fire Chief Brian Leahy said outages in that village are mostly on the north side of town. Leahy guessed that about 1,500 Clarendon Hills customers were without power. 

There are a lot of tree and wire problems in Clarendon Hills, though, according to Leahy. "About two dozen" reports of such problems have been made and the village's public works department is working with private contractors to clear approximately 20 roads closed due to felled trees. 

Acting Clarendon Hills Police Chief Ted Jenkins said the traffic lights along Chicago Avenue are out. 

All-in-all, however, Leahy said the effects of Monday's storm are much less problematic than those of the June 21 storm. 

"This wasn’t as bad," Leahy said. "Nothing like that."  

According to Hinsdale's Bloom, the village will have a better idea of how long power-line repairs will take later Monday morning.


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