Belmont Cragin residents left without power for hours during extreme heat warning

Belmont Cragin residents left without power for hours during extreme heat warning

Katie Benson wasn’t sure if she’d need to stay at a hotel Wednesday after a power outage on her Belmont Cragin block left residents fighting extreme heat into Thursday.“We didn’t have that much ice because we didn’t know that the power was gonna go out [and] we were trying to figure out if we should go to a hotel or not because we have all these little kids,” said Benson, 38.Instead of going to a hotel, Benson, her husband and their three young …