The upcoming holiday weekend is truly the perfect end to a week of hazardous air quality due to wildfire smoke from Canada. After staying mostly indoors and recoiling at the horrid campfire smell permeating the air, it’s only fitting that we enter a weekend filled with fireworks and Chicago’s first NASCAR race downtown. A celebration of the internal combustion motor and chemical explosions is certainly one way to ignore the fact that we need clean air for a functioning society.