Chicago’s hottest days — with temperatures of 100 degrees or higher — on record
— dubbed America’s first Public Enemy No. 1 by U.S. Attorney General Homer S. Cummings — was gunned down by federal agents outside the air conditioned Biograph Theatre.The outdoor swimming pool at the Edgewater Beach Hotel held its opening premiere during a hot June in 1953.“Of the estimated 350,000 persons who sought relief at beaches and pools, five drowned, scores suffered heat prostration, and thousands took home second-degree sunburns.
“The heat softened blacktop roads in many parts of the Chicago area. Pavement buckled in two places in Lake county — route 173, near Channel Lake, and route 134, near Big Hollow. ...“It was also the hottest spring day in Chicago weather history, because summer does not begin until noon today, and the warmest day of this year, exceeding Friday’s 101.8 degrees.
“Unusually small crowds attended Lincoln Park and Brookfield zoos. Directors Robert Bean of Brookfield said the animals appeared to be comfortable despite the heat. ‘They are more judicious than humans, and never seek second degree burns on beaches,’ he said.”“On the first day of summer Monday, Chicago-area residents experienced two weather milestones. The thermometer at O’Hare International Airport read 104 degrees at 4:26 p.m., the second-hottest temperature ever recorded in Chicago.
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