UPDATE: Systems coming back at Daley Center... and maybe across the county, too

This morning's Internet outage impacting the Daley Center was apparently countywide, according to multiple sources.

What happened, and why, is still unknown, but it seems that the entire Cook County WAN developed problems with Internet traffic -- slow-loading pages to the point of pages timing out, the kind of stuff that happens on my ancient laptop and even-older desktop on most days ending in -y. Outlook apparently continued to function. Phones, too. But the problem, whatever it was, was not confined to one office or one building.

None of the people I've communicated with this morning are technical people, so I can't provide any information about why this may have happened.

But the problems are apparently subsiding.

Of course, now I'm trying to confirm that, too. *Sigh* (Updating this update to add that multiple sources are saying all the technology is working again.)

If I get anything reasonably plausible from anyone who has knowledge about the cause of the problem (the morning rain or the almost-full moon are probably not to blame here) I will pass it along.