ComEd Outage Disperses South Side Residents

Aug 1, 2006, 2:00pm CT

ComEd Outage Disperses South Side Residents

Aug 1, 2006, 2:00pm CT

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Twelve hundred seniors and other residents from Chicago’s South Side are resting in emergency cooling centers after a late-night power failure.

Utility ComEd is racing to the fix problem, and it’s helping the city with the response.

Chicago Public Radio’s Shawn Allee has the story.