Heat emergency response cost agencies $1.25 million

Chicago's blitzkrieg response to last month's four-day heatemergency cost $1.25 million, officials said Monday. Preliminaryestimates include $800,000 spent by the city, $150,000 by the ChicagoHousing Authority and $75,000 by the Chicago Park District. The CTAhas pegged its costs at $100,000. That figure includes the cost ofbuying generators and supplying cooling buses as well as revenueslost when stations had to be left open because fare card readers lostpower. Only expenses directly related to power outages will bebilled to Commonwealth Edison, a city spokeswoman said. In 1995, thecity spent $3.3 million responding to a 10-day heat emergency thatcontributed to the deaths of …