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- Arts & Culture, Lit Feature Oct 21, 2015
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Can Chicago take another heat wave?
Twenty years after Chicago's deadly 1995 heat wave, the man who wrote the book on the disaster says the city is—and isn’t—prepared for another.
- Blogs, Bleader Jul 23, 2015
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Chicago is a city (still) on a hot seat
Chicago's deadly '95 heat wave turned 20, but complex questions raised in a 2002 Reader piece on the subject remain unanswered.
- Arts & Culture, Theater Review Mar 12, 2015
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Steppenwolf's showcase for off-Loop theater is expansive—and thus a bit shaky
It's risky business at this year's Garage Rep.
- Blogs, Bleader Jul 16, 2012
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Everybody talks about climate change but the candidates
Could this heat wave be a political issue?
- Blogs, Bleader Jun 18, 2012
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Against air-conditioning
Air-conditioning keeps us cool as cucumbers, and about as politically active
- Blogs, Bleader Jul 26, 2011
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A weather primer
A round-up of weather-related reporting.
- News & Politics, Feature Jul 25, 2002
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City on the Hot Seat
Despite what we were told at the time, the heat wave of 1995 didn't kill indiscriminately. In his new book Heat Wave, Northwestern socialogist Eric Klinenberg argues that it was much harder on people isolated by poverty and crime. Klinenberg's liberal val
