Medical Examiner Case Archive, 2014 to present

The information presented here is compiled from the Cook County Medical Examiner’s Office. The data sets include information from deaths starting in August 2014 to the present, with information updated twice a day. It 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. 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). 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. Manner of death falls under one of five categories: · Homicide · Suicide · Natural · Accident · Undetermined The information posted here may be graphic in nature and may not be appropriate for all users. Published 11/21/17 and updated twice a day.本数据集信息汇编自库克县法医办公室（Cook County Medical Examiner’s Office）。数据集涵盖2014年8月至今的死亡相关信息，每日更新两次。该数据集收录了库克县内处于法医管辖范畴内的死亡案例信息。需注意，并非库克县境内所有死亡事件都会上报至法医办公室，或归属于其管辖范围。自2022年4月1日起，库克县法医办公室不再管辖发生于医院、养老院或临终关怀机构内的新冠死亡病例，除非存在其他符合该办公室管辖条件的因素。库克县境内的新冠死亡病例数据，仍可通过伊利诺伊州公共卫生部（Illinois Dept. of Public Health）新冠数据仪表盘（https://dph.illinois.gov/covid19/data.html）获取。法医办公室负责为其管辖范围内的案例确定死亡原因与死亡方式：死亡原因指个体的致死缘由；死亡方式分为以下五类： · 凶杀 · 自杀 · 自然死亡 · 意外死亡 · 未确定 本页面发布的信息可能包含敏感内容，并非所有用户都适宜查看。本内容发布于2017年11月21日，每日更新两次。