Were the 739 deaths from Chicago's 1995 heatwave a one-time tragedy or appalling trend? Cooked: Survival by Zip Code tells the story of the tragic 1995 Chicago heatwave, the most traumatic in U.S.

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CHICAGO (WLS) -- Peabody Award-winning filmmaker Judith Helfand takes audiences from the deadly 1995 Chicago heat disaster deep into one of our nation's biggest growth industries - disaster ...

American pubcaster PBS will provide the broadcast television premiere of Peabody Award-winning director Judith A. Helfand‘s feature-length documentary Cooked: Survival by Zip Code when it debuts ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- "Cooked: Survival by Zip Code" is a new documentary that examines the July 1995 Chicago heatwave, which killed 739 people. "It's a title that makes some people uncomfortable, 'cause ...

If handled by our elected officials with some urgency, money and political sense, the monumental natural disasters that afflict us every year should be an easy, nonpartisan win inside a hard set of ...

Judith Helfand directed this Kartemquin-produced documentary about America’s preparedness for natural disasters, which argues that when widespread tragedies occur, low-income communities are likely to ...

COOKED: SURVIVAL BY ZIP CODE will screen at The Tivoli Theater (6350 Delmar) Friday, Nov 15 at 5:30pm as part of this year’s St. Louis International Film Festival. Producer Fenell Doremus will be in ...

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