Daywatch: $50 billion state budget deal reached
Good morning, Chicago.
Amid all of the discourse on the devastating consequences of climate change, one fact often slips through the cracks: Targeted interventions can reduce potentially deadly heat exposure for city residents, not just in years to come but for people living in the present day.
Heat isn’t uniform across cities, and knowing whether a community tends to have elevated temperatures makes a difference. During heat waves of increasing intensity, many groups are particularly vulnerable, including children, older adults, and people who are low income, are pregnant, have certain medical conditions or work outdoors.
To provide Chicagoans access to temperature trends in their communities, the Tribune partnered with researchers at Boston University’s Center for Climate and Health to create a searchable map. The team also found that Chicago’s Latino population disproportionately shoulders the burden of heat disparities, while white residents disproportionately populate the city’s coolest areas.
Read our special report and search temperatures in your neighborhood.
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