I just read on Tom Skilling’s weather page that it was exactly nine years ago that the mercury hit 104F at O’Hare and 106F at Modway with a then-unheard-of heat index of 128. I will never forget that day! That was the last time I ever drove to work. My car overheated on the way to Northbrook (I took Sheridan Rd. due to fewer stoplights) and the mechanic told me to take the same route home. I did-and the AC gave out. The next morning, I took the bus.
Wolfy