Heat Wave: A Social Autopsy of Disaster in Chicago

Heat Wave: A Social Autopsy of Disaster in Chicago

On Thursday, July 13, 1995, Chicagoans awoke to a blistering day in which the temperature would reach 106 degrees. The heat index, which measures how the temperature actually feels on the body, would …

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