Those Killed Were Mostly Poor, Isolated, And Elderly When it's hot, Chicagoans naturally compare the degree of heat to that historic summer of 1995 when a killer heat wave devastated the city. It turns out that heat kills more Americans than all other natural disasters combined. A typical hot spell during a Chicago summer lasts a few days and then rain cools off the city, but July ‘95 was not typical. The temperature hit 106 degrees at Midway on July 13th and the oppressive humidity made it feel like 127. “It’s just so hot, feels like an oven out here,"...