CHICAGO (WLS) -- "Cooked: Survival by Zip Code" is a new documentary that examines the July 1995 Chicago heatwave, which killed 739 people. "It's a title that makes some people uncomfortable, 'cause ...

In July 1995 some 500-750 people died in Chicago during a torpid 5-day heat wave on July 12-16 that hit the city. This summer, similar temperatures occurred in Chicago on July 3-7 but there were ...

Fatalities soared 25 years ago this week in what may be the worst climate disaster in U.S. history. Twenty-five years ago this week, the Chicago coroner’s office was swimming in corpses. It began as a ...

CHICAGO (WGN) – Dozens of people gathered in Chicago’s Austin neighborhood Tuesday night to remember hundreds of people who died during the July 1995 heat wave. At the Columbus Park Refectory, Mayor ...

It’s been 25 years since the deadliest heat wave in U.S. history killed more than 700 people, namely elderly residents from Chicago’s poorest neighborhoods. Temperatures in July 1995 reached record ...

CHICAGO (AP) — Natural disasters can be dramatic — barreling hurricanes, building-toppling tornadoes — but heat is more deadly. Chicago learned that the hard way in 1995. That July, a weeklong heat ...

The book is "Heat Wave: A Social Autopsy of Disaster in Chicago." The author is Eric Klinenberg. He teaches sociology at New York University. Heat Wave is part history book, part urban handbook, part ...

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The Chicago heat wave of 1995 wasn't indiscriminate. It took the lives of the city's most vulnerable: the elderly, the infirm, the forgotten shut-ins...the people who had fallen through the cracks. It ...

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Weather extremes are normal for Chicago. But Wednesday, July 12, 1995, was odd: the third day of an intensifying heat wave reached 97 degrees and, as darkness fell, didn’t cool down. At 10 p.m. the ...