The summer is usually a time for people to go outside and enjoy the fresh air and bright sun. ... These extremes are equally significant during the summer months, however, and most people, including those that can facilitate safety from it, fail to recognize its quiet, slow, and blistering danger. ... An event of such magnitude that it doubled the number who died in the great Chicago fire of 1871, and eclipsed the death toll of Hurricane Andrew by a figure twenty times as great. ... African-Americans were also at an increased risk, and when taking into account their relative populations, t...

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Heat Wave: Pointing Fingers By Nelson Gord University of Illinois at Chicago Professor Perry Duis History 255 November 19, 2003 The summer is usually a time for people to go outside and enjoy the fresh air and bright sun. ... These extremes are equally significant during the summer months, however, and most people, including those that can facilitate safety from it, fail to recognize its quiet, slow, and blistering danger. ... An event of such magnitude that it doubled the number who died in the great Ch...

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Root died before the project was completed, but Burnham continued as chief of construction. ... He died on April 14, 1924, in Chicago. ... Frank, during the summer while he was a teenager, had to get a summer job every summer to help with the family. ...

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Upton Sinclair's novel the Jungle illustrates how greed and ruthless competition has made turn of the century America into a brutal jungle.Take or be taken? was the guiding rule, and everyone was someone else's prey. Those at the bottom of the economic ladder - wage earners and their families were a...

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