More than 200,000 homes and businesses across the Chicago area entered a second full day without electricity this week, and emergency officials are most worried about how people will get through it.
Portable generators kill roughly 100 people in the United States every year through carbon monoxide poisoning, according to the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission. Most of those deaths happen at home, during weather-related outages, in the days immediately after a storm. That is precisely the window the Chicago region is in right now.
