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To the Editor: As commissioner of the Chicago Department of Public Health and an important figure in my book, Heat Wave, John Wilhelm has a distinctive view of whether he and the administration for which he works responded adequately to the 1995 disaster, which killed more than 700 people. In his review (Sept. 26 issue),¹ Wilhelm claims that the people I interviewed for the two chapters assessing Chicago's social protection programs and emergency responses "were not there." This is not true. Wilhelm, who was a leader in the city's effort to manage the crisis, was himself a source for the . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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