Illinois offers residents help with heating and energy bills through the Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program. But applications aren’t taken from June through August, when most heat waves occur.
Temperatures barely climbed past 32 degrees Celsius and only for a couple of days. But the discovery of the bodies of three women inside a Chicago senior housing facility this month left the city looking for answers to questions that were supposed to be addressed after a longer and hotter heat wave killed more than…