CHICAGO, June 17 (Xinhua) -- Chicagoans have been taken aback by the heat wave when they stepped out of houses Monday morning.
Chicago Metropolitan Area is one of a dozen large metropolitan areas in the United States shrouded under a heat wave stretching from the Midwest to the Northeast that is expected to linger for at least five days, with temperatures each day above 32 Celsius degrees. Monday was forecast to see temperature reaching 36 Celsius degrees.
