UPDATED: Power Restoration Continues In Buffalo Grove

4 p.m. July 16

Target on Lake-Cook Road in Wheeling had its power restored today, after running on generators since Monday, employees said. The generators supplied enough power to keep the store open through the week, but were not strong enough to keep the freezer and refrigerator cases cold. All perishables were removed from the cases, which employees are beginning to restock today. They said a full selection is expected to be available by Monday.

Meanwhile, a employee said the Buffalo Grove store, which did not lose power, experienced higher than usual sales this week.

2 p.m July 16

Buffalo Grove officials, who received an update from ComEd this afternoon, reported that there are still four ComEd customers who have been without power since Monday. The Foxhill neighborhood, which has been without power since Wednesday, also remains without service. Power is expected to be restored by 6 p.m., an official told Patch.

announced on its Facebook fan page that its power was restored at 11 a.m. The store will reopen for business at 2 p.m. today.

11:30 a.m. July 16

A resident of the west side of Pinehurst Lane told Patch via the Facebook fan page that her power returned at 11:30 a.m. The outage occurred at 8:45 a.m. Friday.

9 a.m. July 16

A resident of the Weidner Road neighborhood who lost power Thursday night reported on the Buffalo Grove Patch Facebook page that electricity was restored around 9 a.m., after a 38-hour wait.

Meanwhile, Dorfler's Meat Market, which has been without power all week, continues to wait for restoration.

3:30 p.m. July 15

ComEd reported that 300 customers in Buffalo Grove remain without power this afternoon. Restoration is expected by midnight.

Dorfler's Meat Market remains without power.

The Village of Buffalo Grove is allowing residents with in dumpsters from 1 to 7 p.m. today in the park parking lot of the public works building. As of 4 p.m., 21 residents had delivered garbage bags full of food to the site.

10:30 a.m. July 15

A resident of Pinehurst Lane reported that the west side of the street lost power around 8:45 a.m.

6 p.m. July 14

Fifty-seven ComEd customers in Buffalo Grove remained without power this afternoon, while a total of 5,778 had been restored, according to the village.

Meanwhile, 2,220 customers in the area of Weidner, Hapsfield, Stratford and Thornton lost power again this afternoon.

On Wednesday, 153 customers in the Foxhill/Aberdeen area lost power due to a problem with an underground cable.

ComEd crews continue to work in the village.

12:30 p.m. July 14:

ComEd has restored power to 90 percent of its customers in Buffalo Grove, according to the village's website. A total of 5,561 properties have been restored and 602 remain without power.

9:45 a.m. July 14:

reported on its Facebook page that it remains without power. "ComEd is still saying tomorrow will be the day," it shared.

11 p.m. July 13:

All traffic signals in Buffalo Grove are back in service. Deputy Village Manager Ghida Neukirch said 930 ComEd customers in Buffalo Grove remain without power; 84 percent have been restored. The village remains in constant communication with ComEd to ensure that power is restored to all customers as quickly as possible, Neukirch said.

"We have been advised that crews will continue to work diligently until there is 100 percent restoration. All properties are our priority," she said.

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Power restoration continued Wednesday afternoon in Buffalo Grove, where businesses, homes and traffic lights are slowly blinking back to life.

ComEd crews restored electricity today in neighborhoods at the north end of the village, near Aptakisic Road and Route 22, Deputy Village Manager Ghida Neukirch said.

Residents in the Villa Verde and Oak Creek complexes and those near Dundee and Weidner roads are expected to have power again by the end of the day, she said.

“There’s a high concentration of residents in those areas, so those were considered high priority for Buffalo Grove,” Neukirch said. “There are still a number of customers that are still out of service as of this afternoon, but customers are being restored on a regular basis.”

Traffic signals were still out Wednesday afternoon at the intersections Buffalo Grove Road and Aptakisic, as well as on Dundee Road at both Weidner and Arlington Heights roads, causing major backups as drivers negotiated four-way stops. The storm knocked out power at six intersections in the village. Neukirch said most traffic signals are expected to be restored by this evening.

Power has been restored to about 62 percent of ComEd customers in the village, she said, including , which got its electricity back today.

Shopping centers, including Aptakisic Creek at Aptakisic and Buffalo Grove roads and stores in the Plaza Verde at Dundee and Arlington Heights roads also lost power in the storm. Many were open this afternoon, while others remained dark.