Heat was restored Tuesday at Kenwood Academy High School after the heating system broke down on a day of record-breaking freezing temperatures.
“This morning, we became aware that one of our motors failed, which resulted in our school losing heat circulation,” Chicago Public Schools mentioned in a letter to oldsters of the college.
Heat was restored simply after four p.m., college officers mentioned.
Crews labored to repair an tools failure within the heating system on the college, 5015 S. Blackstone Ave., in keeping with a Chicago Fire Department spokesman.
No one was evacuated, and crews with CPS’s constructing division labored on the difficulty, Chicago fireplace mentioned.
School officers mentioned they checked temperatures within the college a number of instances all through the day and decided them to be protected.
The heater failure at Kenwood got here on a day of file chilly in Chicago.
By noon, the temperature in Chicago was 17 levels, with a wind chill of 5 levels, in keeping with the National Weather Service.
With an anticipated excessive of 18 levels on Tuesday, Chicago ought to shatter the earlier “lowest high” temperature of 28 set in 1995, the climate service mentioned.
A recorded temperature of seven levels at O’Hare Tuesday morning broke a file low set in 1986, the climate service mentioned.