After a relatively dry August with normal temperatures and just a few spikes in rain and heat, Labor Day is coming in hot — but not so much as to disrupt holiday activities. Despite the Aug. 23-24 heat wave, the average temperature in Chicago hovered around 74 degrees throughout August. And unlike the hot stretch that prompted the summer’s first excessive heat warning in the city, the National .
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The city of Chicago says it will open additional cooling centers this week ahead of a heat wave that could push heat indices well over 100 degrees in coming.
There’s a slight cool breeze in the hallways of the largest residential building in the city’s 49th Ward. But when Susan Hoffman steps inside her apartment at the senior living facility in Rogers Park, the heat closes in and the air stands still. Hoffman, 71, waves her hand over one of her two air conditioning units connected to the building’s central cooling system. She walks to the second .