3 People Hospitalized After Power Outage At High-Rise Apartment Building
The Chicago Fire Department sent several ambulances to the 8-story apartment building at the corner of Maypole and Homan shortly before 9:30 a.m.
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The Chicago Fire Department sent several ambulances to the 8-story apartment building at the corner of Maypole and Homan shortly before 9:30 a.m.
Puerto Rico has suffered an island-wide power outage, Puerto Rico's power authority said Wednesday -- nearly seven months after Hurricane Maria destroyed much of the island's infrastructure and its electrical grid.
Atlanta Mayor Kasim Reed said foul play is not suspected. Travel experts have said the mess might not be straightened out for a few days.
ComEd said 4,000 customers were affected.
Chicago's Police Department headquarters was without power for more than two hours Thursday afternoon, but officials say core functions were not affected.
A truck overturned and struck a light pole Wednesday morning in the Southwest Side Little Village neighborhood.
Part of the truck got caught in wiring under the CTA tracks on Lake Street near Post Place at 11:38 p.m., according to Chicago Police.
Both inbound and outbound trains were stopped on the Milwaukee District / North Line; the Milwaukee District / West Line; the Rock Island District Line; and the Metra Electric District, the transit agency reported at 12:50 a.m. Wednesday. Signals and power were completely restored by 2:23 a.m.
Construction work on Randolph Street ruptured a water main, and water gushed into an electrical vault, disrupting elevator service and air conditioning at the Michael A. Bilandic Building at 160 N. LaSalle St., according to the state's Department of Central Management Services.
The outage occurred at 10:05 p.m. and affected the area between Michigan Avenue and Lake Shore Drive and between Wacker Drive and Monroe Street, ComEd spokeswoman Krissy Posey said. Approximately 1,600 customers were affected, although power was fully restored by 2:50 a.m. Thursday.
Cheers went up at a far south suburban brewery Thursday morning, when the lights finally came back on, more than three days after severe storms knocked out the power.
After commuters had to deal with nearly four hours of major delays on the Blue Line, due to a power outage on tracks near a downtown subway station, CTA officials said service was returning to normal Wednesday afternoon.
At least two buildings lost power Sunday afternoon when a ComEd vault caught fire in the Gold Coast neighborhood.
The fire started in the basement at a high-rise in the 3200 block of North Lake Shore Drive, and was mostly contained there, cutting power to areas near the blaze. Elevators in the building are out of service.
Seven patients were transferred from a northwest suburban hospital Friday morning after a wing of the hospital lost power for two hours.
Aurora on Monday was being inundated with 911 calls after a power outage hit the east side of town.
Students at a Grand Boulevard neighborhood elementary school were being bused to another school, or allowed to go home, after a transformer failure caused a power outage.
Officials at O'Hare International Airport are saying a bit more about what caused lights to fail on two runways Thursday night, but have yet to determine an exact cause.
A teenager is telling the story of her harrowing rescue from one of Chicago's most recognizable high rises.
The outage affected trains between South Bend and East Chicago and caused "extensive damage" at the South Shore substation.
Train service has been suspended for South Shore trains between South Bend and East Chicago due to a power outage Sunday in Portage County, Indiana.
The Shedd Aquarium was evacuated Thursday afternoon when the electricity went out to much of the building.
Severe thunderstorms moved through Chicago Sunday afternoon with high wind and hail, and 155,000 customers were still without power by late evening.
A power outage on Midway's airfield grounded dozens of flights and hundreds of passengers. The outage lasted for four hours, and CBS 2 learned the delays will be spilling into the weekend.
Power has been restored to the runway lights at Midway International Airport, after a night that left passengers stranded and miserable for hours.
