June 16 (UPI) --An excessive heat wave will have 135 million Americans in its grips, from Chicago to New York. Temperatures are also expected to be in excess of 110 in the desert Southwest ...

"The hottest day of the heat wave is expected today with heat indices climbing to 105 to 110 degrees," the Chicago forecasters said in a social media post. They noted that some of those same areas ...

Ward recalled the now-legendary Chicago heat wave that caused 739 heat-related deaths in July 1995. The city with the big shoulders sagged under daytime temperatures rose as high as 110 degrees, with ...

Chicago learned that the hard way in 1995. That July, a weeklong heat wave that hit 106 degrees Fahrenheit (41 degrees Celsius) killed more than 700 people. Most of the deaths occurred in poor ...