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Trailer | Cooked: Survival by Zip Code

Were the 739 deaths from Chicago's 1995 heatwave a one-time tragedy or appalling trend?

02/03/2020

Independent Lens

Trailer | Cooked: Survival by Zip Code

Preview: Season 21 Episode 8 | 30sVideo has Closed Captions

Were the 739 deaths from Chicago's 1995 heatwave a one-time tragedy or appalling trend?

Cooked: Survival by Zip Code tells the story of the tragic 1995 Chicago heatwave, the most traumatic in U.S. history, in which 739 citizens died over the course of just a single week, most of them poor, elderly, and African American. Cooked is a story about life, death, and the politics of crisis in an American city that asks the question: Was this a one-time tragedy, or an appalling trend?

02/03/2020

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"Almost Perfect Overlaps" | Cooked: Survival by Zip Code

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Clip: S21 Ep8 | 1m 29s | A heat death map lays out a painful reality about the tragic 1995 Chicago heatwave. (1m 29s)

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