Outage impacts city

Power lines are shown north of Fairbury.

A large power outage Wednesday morning impacted a large portion of Fairbury and the surrounding area.

Numerous businesses and homes were impacted with some stores posting on social media that they were either using generator power or could not take credit cards due to the outage. Internet was down for many and the area grain elevators were affected as well.

Sources say a squirrel in a transformer was the cause of Wednesday's outage.