What 700 Deaths Couldn’t Prove: Investigating Institutional Failure Without Intent (opens in new tab)

By NaBeela Washington On July 15, 2025, a lightbulb went off at an evening “unveiling.” I sat in a room full of residents and community organizers while Northwestern University researchers presented Chicago’s heat vulnerability index. Graphs flashed on the screen. Neighborhood-level data. Risk factors mapped to census tracts. The kind of granular information that could… The post What 700 Deaths Couldn’t Prove: Investigating Institutional Failure Without Intent appeared first on Investigative ...