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Chicago Sun-Times
Chicago Sun-Times
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Advocates call on CPS to use schools as cooling centers amid scorching Chicago heat

An ice cream vendor walks around Montrose Beach. (Pat Nabong/Sun-Times file)

As Chicago continues to face scorching temperatures early this summer, activists are calling on officials to use public school buildings as cooling centers to supplement the city’s existing six sites.

Heat-related injuries and deaths have been top of mind for many Chicagoans as the city reached 100-degree temperatures for the second consecutive week — and after a May tragedy in which three women died during a heat wave.

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