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    Medical Examiner Case Archive

    Metadata Updated: January 17, 2026

    Effective April 1, 2022, the Cook County Medical Examiner’s Office no longer takes jurisdiction over hospital, nursing home or hospice COVID-19 deaths unless there is another factor that falls within the Office’s jurisdiction. Data continues to be collected for COVID-19 deaths in Cook County on the Illinois Dept. of Public Health COVID-19 dashboard (https://dph.illinois.gov/covid19/data.html).

    This contains information about deaths that occurred in Cook County that were under the Medical Examiner’s jurisdiction. Not all deaths that occur in Cook County are reported to the Medical Examiner or fall under the jurisdiction of the Medical Examiner. The Medical Examiner’s Office determines cause and manner of death for those cases that fall under its jurisdiction. Cause of death describes the reason the person died. This dataset includes information from deaths starting in August 2014 to the present, with information updated daily.

    Changes: December 16, 2022: The Cook County Commissioner District field now reflects the boundaries that went into effect December 5, 2022.

    September 8, 2023: The Primary Cause field is now a combination of the Primary Cause Line A, Line B, and Line C fields.

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    Public: This dataset is intended for public access and use. Non-Federal: This dataset is covered by different Terms of Use than Data.gov. License: No license information was provided.

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    Dates

    Metadata Created Date November 10, 2020
    Metadata Updated Date January 17, 2026

    Metadata Source

    Harvested from cookcountyil json

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    Additional Metadata

    Resource Type Dataset
    Metadata Created Date November 10, 2020
    Metadata Updated Date January 17, 2026
    Publisher datacatalog.cookcountyil.gov
    Maintainer
    Identifier https://datacatalog.cookcountyil.gov/api/views/cjeq-bs86
    Data First Published 2023-05-26
    Data Last Modified 2026-01-17
    Category Health & Human Services
    Public Access Level public
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    Harvest Source Id d52781fd-51ef-4061-9cd2-535a0afb663b
    Harvest Source Title cookcountyil json
    Homepage URL https://datacatalog.cookcountyil.gov/d/cjeq-bs86
    Source Datajson Identifier True
    Source Hash 56caf8331b22154c5adba945112e4b2abb14134bc9a39fd1f2b875061733e23c
    Source Schema Version 1.1

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