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800,000 Without Power at Height of Storms
CHICAGO (AP) -- A spokeswoman for ComEd says Monday's storm left the utility with its highest number of outages in a decade.

ComEd spokeswoman Alicia Zatkowski says that at the peak of the outages more than 800,000 customers were without power.

That number has been climbing. Some people lost power after they left for work and are reporting outages as they return home and discover the problem.

The utility has nearly 500 crews working to restore service to the more than 500,000 Chicago-area customers still waiting.

The fast-moving storm downed trees, flattened cornfields and slowed travel throughout northern Illinois. Airlines report delays at both O'Hare and Midway airports and more than 200 flight cancellations at O'Hare.

Seventy-five mph winds were measured at Midway.

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