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A man uses the shade of a tree to shield himself from the sun near North Avenue Beach, Sunday, June 16, 2024. Temperatures in the Chicago area were hovering around 90 degrees.

Tyler Pasciak LaRiviere / Chicago Sun-Times

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A man uses the shade of a tree to shield himself from the sun near North Avenue Beach, Sunday, June 16, 2024. Temperatures in the Chicago area were hovering around 90 degrees.

Tyler Pasciak LaRiviere / Chicago Sun-Times

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Temperatures at O’Hare hottest in 70 years

90-plus degree days expected through the end of the week.

A man uses the shade of a tree to shield himself from the sun near North Avenue Beach, Sunday, June 16, 2024. Temperatures in the Chicago area were hovering around 90 degrees.

Tyler Pasciak LaRiviere / Chicago Sun-Times
By Lynnea Domienik
   

We’re not even officially in summer and it’s hot, hot, hot. So much so that Monday’s record-breaking temperature was the hottest it’s been in this area on that date (June 17) since 1887.

Reset hears what’s ahead for the week, and the season.

GUEST: Scott Collis, atmospheric scientist, Argonne National Laboratory

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