A nearly eight hour power outage in Ottawa is over. It started about 9:45pm last night because of equipment damage. Spokeswoman Marcelyn Love says an underground line failed. Power was on again for most people by 5:30am. Ameren’s online outage monitoring map showed around 500 customers were affected, but Love says it affected around 1,100. The outage put AM-1430 WCMY off the air, but the FM transmitter on 93.5 and 95.3 Jack FM stayed on.
This story has been updated with information from Ameren Illinois spokeswoman Marcelyn Love.