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WBEZ-FM 91.5 was back on the air live and local Thursday morning after nearly a day without power forced the station to vacate its Navy Pier studios and run network programming.

ComEd replaced a damaged transformer and restored electricity to the studios at 1:46 a.m., allowing the station to return to normal programming in time for morning drive after a 16-hour disruption.

The outage occurred around 9:30 a.m. Wednesday during the “In the Loop” program with Sasha-Ann Simons. The station was briefly able to continue broadcasting its local programming on a backup power system, but the outage also knocked off the heat, forcing the on-air staff to vacate as the temperatures in the studios began to drop.

At about 10 a.m., WBEZ switched to a netw

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