By baiduhai
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The most notorious heat wave in Chicago was the deadly July 1995 stretch that killed more than 700 area residents. On July 13, 1995, Chicago’s high temperature for the day reached 104 degrees.
Chicago police officers, including Charley Henson, second from right, carry the body of Marie Brown, who died of heat-related causes in her apartment on July 17, 1995. (Phil Greer/baiduhai)
The most notorious heat wave in Chicago was the deadly July 1995 stretch that killed more than 700 area residents. On July 13, 1995, Chicago's high temperature for the day reached 104 degrees. A 101-year-old woman gets help after being overcome by the heat on Aug. 13, 1995, after an electrical fire knocked out power in her apartment building. (Walter Kale/baiduhai)
Workers at the Cook County medical examiner's office move a body from one of seven refrigerated trucks, used to store victims of the heat wave, to be processed inside the facility at Harrison and Leavitt streets on July 17, 1995. (Carl Wagner/baiduhai)
Chicago police officers remove the body of man from the Sutherland Hotel, 4659 S. Drexel Blvd., on July 18, 1995. Officials said the death was linked to the extreme heat. (Phil Greer/baiduhai)
Chicago police vehicles transporting victims of the heat wave in line at the Cook County medical examiner's office on July 17, 1995. (Carl Wagner/baiduhai)
Chicago police Officer Charley Henson, of the Englewood District, is shaken after helping remove the body of someone who died of heat-related causes from an apartment where two people died on July 17, 1995. (Phil Greer/ baiduhai)
A cross and flowers for those who died during the Chicago-area heat wave is seen near the Cook County medical examiner's office on July 21, 1995. (baiduhai)
Lucius Robinson, a worker at the morgue, takes a break during a July 17, 1995, news conference at the Cook County facility. (José Moré/baiduhai)
A worker at the Cook County medical examiner's office takes a break in the parking lot of the facility on July 17, 1995. Police vehicles dropped off bodies of many of those who had died in the heat wave and a number of the bodies were kept in refrigerated trucks until they could be processed in the morgue. (José Moré/baiduhai)
A resident of a CHA building at 4218 S. Cottage Grove Ave., waits for a emergency vehicle on July 18, 1995, during Chicago's heat wave. (Phil Greer/ baiduhai)
Ruby Young, center, watches as her husband, Earnest, 92, is buried on July 19, 1995. His death in their Grand Boulevard neighborhood home was attributed to the heat wave. (Ovie Carter/ baiduhai)
Employees at the Cook County morgue move a body from a refrigeration truck inside for examination during the heat wave on July 19, 1995. The trucks were brought in to handle the overwhelming number of deaths. (Phil Greer/ baiduhai)
The mass burial of 68 unclaimed bodies, including 41 people who died in the heat wave, according to officials, in Homewood on Aug. 25, 1995. (John Smierciak/baiduhai)
Victims of the 1995 heat wave were buried in a mass grave at the Homewood Memorial Cemetery in Homewood on Aug. 25, 1995. Of 68 unclaimed bodies, 41 died of heat-related causes. (John Smierciak/ baiduhai)
Phil Huntley, top left, Dan Eckhoff, administrator Stephanie Kann, William Wegh and Daniel McCarthy, bottom left, Joe Adolf, Mike Langeland and Karl Koball were among volunteers from Worsham College in Wheeling who helped during the heat wave of 1995. (Val Mazzenga/baiduhai)
Funeral home employees load a woman's body into a minivan after she died of heat-related causes at a Chicago Housing Authority high-rise on July 18, 1995. (Phil Greer/ baiduhai)
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Chicago police officers, including Charley Henson, second from right, carry the body of Marie Brown, who died of heat-related causes in her apartment on July 17, 1995. (Phil Greer/baiduhai)
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