A Brown Sugar Bakery employee dips ice cream in chocolate to make ice cream bars, before storing them in a freezer, at the bakery’s production facility in Chicago on Aug. 7, 2026. The bakery lost 500 ice cream bars when a storm knocked out power in June 2026. (Jamie Kelter Davis/The New York Times) By LYDIA DePILLIS In early June, the power went out at Stephanie Hart’s bakery on Chicago’s South Side, during an intense storm and a suffocating heat wave. Five hundred ice cream bars meant for a…
