Chicago heat wave, which took place 30 years ago this week, remains the Chicago area's deadliest weather disaster.

A historic, deadly heat wave affected much of the Midwest and specifically Chicago in July of 1995. Over 700 deaths were ...

As one of the first major Hollywood studio films to address racism in the immediate aftermath of the Jim Crow era, In the Heat of the Night quickly gained a reputation for being one of the most ...

For three horribly sweltering days in the summer of 1995, Chicago endured the deadliest stretch of heat ever recorded in the United States. The death toll ultimately numbered an estimated 739.

Grammy- and Emmy-winning songwriter whose lyric-writing partnership with wife Marilyn lasted more than six decades, has died.

Blame the heat index, also called “apparent temperature.” It’s a combination of air temperature and humidity, and it measures what the body actually feels, CNN meteorologist Haley Brink said.