A Social Autopsy of Disaster in Chicago
by
Eric Klinenberg
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2015
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 hit 126 degrees by the time the day was over. Meteorologists had been warning residents about a two-day...