On Thursday, July 13, 1995, Chicagoans awoke to a blistering day in which the temperature would reach 106 degrees.
When the Heat wave broke a week later, city streets had buckled; the records for electrical use were shattered; and power grids had failed,.
Meteorologists had been warning residents about a two-day Heat wave, but these temperatures did not end that soon.
The Heat index, which measures how the temperature actually feels on the body, would hit 126 degrees by the time the day was over.
On Thursday, July 13, 1995, Chicagoans awoke to a blistering day in which the temperature would reach 106 degrees