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Medical Examiner Case Archive

Metadata Updated: December 20, 2024

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 December 20, 2024

Metadata Source

Harvested from cookcountyil json

Additional Metadata

Resource Type Dataset
Metadata Created Date November 10, 2020
Metadata Updated Date December 20, 2024
Publisher datacatalog.cookcountyil.gov
Maintainer
Identifier https://datacatalog.cookcountyil.gov/api/views/cjeq-bs86
Data First Published 2023-05-26
Data Last Modified 2024-12-20
Category Public Safety
Public Access Level public
Metadata Context https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema/catalog.jsonld
Metadata Catalog ID https://datacatalog.cookcountyil.gov/data.json
Schema Version https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema
Catalog Describedby https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema/catalog.json
Harvest Object Id 011307e5-7bbc-4693-ac50-60516ce6a397
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 cb79efcccdecdf44cd160b290f4561b450f52cb196a83c866a630c5dff646fb1
Source Schema Version 1.1

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