Independent Lens S21E9: Cooked: Survival by Zip Code
- Aired: 2020-02-03
- Time: 22:00:00
- Runtime: 90 minutes
Overview
Cooked: Survival by Zip Code tells the story of the tragic 1995 Chicago heatwave, the most traumatic in U.S. history, in which 739 citizens died over the course of just a single week, most of them poor, elderly, and African American. Cooked is a story about life, death, and the politics of crisis in an American city that asks the question: Was this a one-time tragedy, or an appalling trend?