More than 80,000 ComEd customers without power after icy storm knocks down trees, power lines across Chicago area

A woman crosses Wabash Avenue near Washington Street in the Loop as rain falls Wednesday. (Tyler Pasciak LaRiviere/Sun-Times)

More than 80,000 ComEd customers remained without power Thursday morning after an icy storm knocked down trees and power lines throughout the Chicago area.

Most of the outages were reported in Cook, DuPage, Lake, Kane, McHenry, Winnebago and Boone counties, according to a ComEd outage map. At the height of the storm Wednesday night, more than 100,000 customers were without power.