The repairs to the McCook station were completed successfully overnight Sunday to Monday, without any addition loss of power, according to the village of La Grange.
The repairs were needed as a result of a power outages that occurred earlier in August and affected about 15,000 customers overall in La Grange, LaGrange Highlands, Western Springs and Countryside.
The first outage occurred on the night of Aug. 11 and affected about 9,000 customers. It stemmed from equipment problems at the McCook station. Power was restored temporarily that night, but problems continued and other outage occurred during the night on Aug. 14. About 5,700 customers were affected by the second outage and ComEd brought in generators to keep the power on in the La Grange downtown business district and elsewhere.
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ComEd established a command center and village personnel were involved in finalizing and action plan and putting that plan into motion, assistant village manager Andrianna Peterson said.
Other actions have been taken to improve power reliability. These include installing new equipment north of the railroad tracks on Brainard Avenue, repairs on Cossitt Avenue and Ashland avenues.
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