CHICAGO (WLS) -- It was 30 years ago this week that the deadly heat wave of 1995 hit Chicago. And on Tuesday, the city detailed a new tool part of a larger project to pinpoint areas most vulnerable or ...
Three decades after Chicago’s devastating heat wave left more than 700 people dead, city efforts to keep people protected from extreme weather continue to fall short. This weekend marks the 30th ...
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 ...
Twenty-five years ago, people all over the world helped mourn as unclaimed victims of a deadly heat wave were laid to rest in a Homewood cemetery. People who witnessed the burial of 68 bodies in a ...
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Monday is Earth Day, and as summer weather approaches, Chicago officials are preparing for potential severe weather. "Last summer, we had a heat index on Aug. 24 that reached 120 degrees. That was the ...
Emilio Aguirre died July 17, 1995. He died because he was too hot. He received a headstone in the back of Homewood Memorial Gardens cemetery just last month. We know very little about Emilio Aguirre.
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