Chicago’s unhoused endure latest heat wave: ‘This is one of the worst’

Jeffery Holiday, 60, who has lived in a tent on Lower Wacker Drive for about eight months, receives cold bottled water and free supplies, such as sandwiches and socks, from the Night Ministry’s street medicine van on Thursday. (Ashlee Rezin/Sun-Times)

On the second day of extreme heat in Chicago, the suffering could be felt among those living on the streets on Lower Wacker Drive.

“It’s bad,” says Jeffery Holiday, 60, from outside a tent in a rare sunny section of Lower Wacker, near Van Buren. “I try to stay hydrated, which is hard to do.”