Heat-related illness patients in late summer up threefold over past decade: data

The number of heat-related illness cases reported in late summer nearly tripled in the past 10 years, government data showed Saturday. An annual average of 215 heat-related patients were reported from "ipchu" to the end of August during the 2011-2015 period, according to an analysis by a research institute under the in

A man died of heat-related reasons Tuesday just a block away from several hospitals, according to the Cook County Medical Examiner’s office. The 64-year-old man, whose name has yet to be released, died of cardiovascular disease complications and heat stress in the 1000 block of South Wood Street Tuesday around 6 p.m.,