Cooked: Survival by Zip Code
Season 21 Episode 8 | 56m 5sVideo has Closed Captions
Were the 739 deaths from Chicago's 1995 heatwave a one-time tragedy or appalling trend?
Cooked: Survival by Zip Code tells the story of the tragic 1995 Chicago heatwave, the most traumatic in U.S. history, in which 739 citizens died over the course of just a single week, most of them poor, elderly, and African American. Cooked is a story about life, death, and the politics of crisis in an American city that asks the question: Was this a one-time tragedy, or an appalling trend?
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Cooked: Survival by Zip Code
Season 21 Episode 8 | 56m 5sVideo has Closed Captions
Cooked: Survival by Zip Code tells the story of the tragic 1995 Chicago heatwave, the most traumatic in U.S. history, in which 739 citizens died over the course of just a single week, most of them poor, elderly, and African American. Cooked is a story about life, death, and the politics of crisis in an American city that asks the question: Was this a one-time tragedy, or an appalling trend?
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Clip: S21 Ep8 | 1m 29s | A heat death map lays out a painful reality about the tragic 1995 Chicago heatwave. (1m 29s)
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