"The hottest day of the heat wave is expected today with heat indices climbing to 105 to 110 degrees," the Chicago forecasters said in a social media post. They noted that some of those same areas ...

A record-breaking heat wave is sending temperatures soaring to ... in many places including the major metropolitan areas of Chicago, St. Louis, Detroit, Cleveland, Pittsburgh, New York City ...

Ward recalled the now-legendary Chicago heat wave that caused 739 heat-related deaths in July 1995. The city with the big shoulders sagged under daytime temperatures rose as high as 110 degrees, with ...

Chicago learned that the hard way in 1995. That July, a weeklong heat wave that hit 106 degrees Fahrenheit (41 degrees Celsius) killed more than 700 people. Most of the deaths occurred in poor ...