Strong storms across the Chicago area and northwest Indiana left more than half a million ComEd and NIPSCO customers without power on Tuesday.
As of just after 12:45 p.m., more than 280,000 ComEd customers and more than 280,500 NIPSCO customers were without power, according to outage data provided by the utility companies.
An “intense line of storms” that moved across Illinois from Iowa brought damaging winds and triggered tornado warnings in several counties throughout the late morning…