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Season 21 Episode 8: Cooked: Survival by Zip Code

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?

Genre:

Documentary

Seasons:

27

Episodes:

542

Actor:

Stanley Tucci

Quality:

HD

Status:

Returning Series

First Air:

1999

IMDb:

6.6