1 Cover with aluminum foil and bake in preheated oven for 30 to 40 minutes. 2  Remove foil and bake for another 5 to 10 minutes; let stand for 10 minutes before cutting; serve.
1995 Chicago heat wave. The 1995 Chicago heat wave was a heat wave which led to 739 heat-related deaths in Chicago over a period of five days. Most of the victims of the heat wave were elderly poor residents of the city, who could not afford air conditioning and did not open windows or sleep outside for fear of crime. The heat wave also heavily impacted the wider Midwestern region, with additional deaths in both St. Louis, Missouri and Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
The alarming spike in Chicago homicides this year raises the specter of the city's murder epidemic that began about 1970 and didn't abate until the late 1990s. While 1994 saw the highest per-capita homicide rate in city history, 1974 saw the largest number of people killed: 970. This is the story of that year. Chicagoans had seen a precipitous rise in murders since the city registered 395 people killed in 1965. The death toll in the city by the lake topped 800 in 1970 and 1971. And in 1973, the city hit a cruel new record of 864 homicides.