In his book Heat Wave: A Social Autopsy of Disaster in Chicago, Eric Klinenberg brings to light how a number of social, political, ecological, and economical factors aligned to create one of the largest and most traumatic meteorological events in recent history. ... This area, which in the book Ethnic Chicago Jorge Caruso and Eduardo Camacho define by its "lively streets, taco stands, and bodegas", has supplied a number of jobs to the community and has attained a level of stability which keeps generations of families in close proximity to each other. ...

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