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.
On this day in 1871, flames spark in the Chicago barn of Patrick and Catherine OâLeary, igniting a two-day blaze that kills between 200 and 300 people, destroys 17,450 buildings, leaves 100,000 homeless and causes an estimated $200 million (in 1871 dollars; $3 billion in 2007 dollars) in damages.