EDITOR'S NOTE: Our newest story on power outages and storm damage for Wednesday, Aug. 28 can be found here. Our original story continues below.
After intense heat brought the highest temperatures of the year to Chicago and the surrounding suburbs, severe storms are now impacting the region and have left thousands of customers without power.
According to ComEd's outage map, over 44,000 customers are without power as of 6:40 p.m.
While many of the earlier outages were reported near the border between Lake and McHenry counties, widespread outages were reported throughout the north and west suburbs after a round of severe storms swept through the region.
A severe thunderstorm watch for parts of the region remains in effect until 11 p.m.
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