739 People Died in Five Days. The Heat Was Only Part of the Reason.
Tuesday, June 16, 2026
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The Chicago Heat Wave of 1995: The Disaster That Taught Us Who Heat Actually KillsThe heat wave that killed 739 Chicagoans in July 1995 was the same citywide. The deaths weren’t. They followed patterns of social isolation, neighborhood disinvestment, and urban design that the heat made lethal — and that would have been invisible in any other kind of disaster. → Two adjacent South Side neighborhoods with similar poverty rates and demographics had dramatically different death tolls — the difference was neighborhood social infrastructure, not the heat → Elderly men died at significantly higher rates than elderly women — a disparity that appears in heat mortality data across multiple events and appears to track differences in social network density → The city initially contested the death toll — a dispute that recurs after virtually every major heat wave and reflects the political discomfort of a number that implies institutional failure The excess mortality count — deaths above what would be expected in a normal year — is consistently higher than direct heat death certifications, representing people who died of heart attacks and respiratory failure that the heat triggered. |
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