Chicago’s response to heat wave faulted as critics, City Council members call for changes

Some Chicago alderpersons want Mayor Brandon Johnson’s administration to explain how the city responds to extreme weather, such as the recent heat wave that saw temperatures in the 90s and very warm nights. Advocates for seniors, low-income residents, the homeless and other vulnerable people were outraged last week when Johnson’s administration closed most of the city’s cooling centers and all of Chicago’s libraries on Juneteenth, the fourth day of the dangerous heat wave. “These are the types of things we have got to have our eye on at all times,”...