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SEPTEMBER 25, 2013
Vol. 5 No. 43
A FLICKERING HOPE IN COMED
Downers Grove residents express concerns to utility By Jewell Washington For the Bugle
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Village of Downers Grove Mayor Martin Tully speaks with residents at Thursdays ComEd town hall meeting.
owners Grove residents gathered Sept. 19 to express more concerns over ComEd electricity reliability and service at the village’s third annual ComEd town hall meeting. Nearly 30 residents met to hear the village highlight its annual report and findings as well as hear ComEd officials respond to it. Both village officials and residents agreed ComEd has restored power more promptly after an outage, resulting in fewer outages in the last two years. But they added ComEd still has a lot of work to do, particularly in regards to customer service. “If a resident calls because they have a tree that they’re concerned about, we wanna make sure that those trees are See COMED, page 3