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.
This dataset has the following 18 columns:
| Column Name | API Column Name | Data Type | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| Case Number | casenumber | text | Case Number assigned by the Medical Examiner's office. |
| Date of Incident | incident_date | calendar_date | Date incident occurred |
| Date of Death | death_date | calendar_date | Date the deceased was pronounced dead |
| Age | age | number | Age of decedent |
| Gender | gender | text | Gender of decedent |
| Race | race | text | Race of decedent |
| Latino | latino | checkbox | Whether the family of the decedent identified him/her as Latino |
| Manner of Death | manner | text | One of five categories: Homicide, Suicide, Natural, Accident, Undetermined |
| Primary Cause | primarycause | text | Primary reason the person died. This field combines Primary Cause Line A, Line B, and Line C into one field |
| Primary Cause Line B | primarycause_lineb | text | Primary reason the person died |
| Primary Cause Line C | primarycause_linec | text | Primary reason the person died |
| Secondary Cause | secondarycause | text | Secondary reason |
| Gun Related | gunrelated | checkbox | Whether the death was caused by a gun |
| Opioid Related | opioids | checkbox | Whether the death was caused by an opioid |
| Incident Address | incident_street | text | Address where incident occurred |
| Incident City | incident_city | text | City where incident occurred |
| OBJECTID | objectid | number | |
| location | location | location | Incident Location |