COVID-19 Deaths in Chicago’s Neighborhoods
A Live Tracker
Chicago is a city of socially knit neighborhoods, not precisely boxed zip codes or uniform experience. In order to understand the public health of our city and to properly advocate for just allocation of care and resources, we must see clearly the way illness appears along lines of disparity. This live tracker of COVID-19 deaths by community area is intended for use as a tool toward those ends.
Total deaths attributed
to COVID-19 in Chicago:
7,386
Last updated August 7, 2022
All data shown is pulled from Cook County Medical Examiner (CCME) records released through the Cook County Data Portal and updated every day at 4:30pm. We have included death records with COVID-19 listed as a primary or secondary cause. Neighborhood counts have been calculated from latitudes and longitudes attached to death records. These locations reflect CCME's determination of where the person fell ill. In most cases, it is their home address. CCME also reports that when a person detained at Cook County Jail dies, their location is recorded as the jail's address in Little Village.
COVID-19 deaths in Chicago by race
Keeping data on race is always complicated, and the pie chart above should be taken with a grain of salt. CCME includes a value for race in most death records, and an additional flag for Latino that can be true or false. For this project, we are including any record where Latino is true exclusively in the Latinx category.
As part of this live tracker we are also keeping records of changes made to CCME data over time in order to create an archive of when death records are created and modified. All code running this site is open source here.
COVID-19 deaths in Chicago by day
Recent per capita COVID-19 deaths by Chicago neighborhood (Jul 17th-Aug 7th)
Community Area ↑↓ | Deaths per 10,000 residents ↑↓ | Total Deaths ↑↓ |
---|---|---|
8 | 0 | |
WEST PULLMAN | 0.4 | 1 |
NEAR WEST SIDE | 0.2 | 1 |
UPTOWN | 0.2 | 1 |
KENWOOD | 0 | |
LINCOLN SQUARE | 0 | |
WASHINGTON PARK | 0 | |
HYDE PARK | 0 | |
WOODLAWN | 0 | |
ROGERS PARK | 0 | |
JEFFERSON PARK | 0 | |
FOREST GLEN | 0 | |
NORTH PARK | 0 | |
ALBANY PARK | 0 | |
PORTAGE PARK | 0 | |
IRVING PARK | 0 | |
DUNNING | 0 | |
MONTCLARE | 0 | |
BELMONT CRAGIN | 0 | |
WEST RIDGE | 0 | |
HERMOSA | 0 | |
AVONDALE | 0 | |
LOGAN SQUARE | 0 | |
HUMBOLDT PARK | 0 | |
WEST TOWN | 0 | |
AUSTIN | 0 | |
WEST GARFIELD PARK | 0 | |
EAST GARFIELD PARK | 0 | |
DOUGLAS | 0 | |
NORTH LAWNDALE | 0 | |
FULLER PARK | 0 | |
SOUTH LAWNDALE (LITTLE VILLAGE) | 0 | |
LOWER WEST SIDE (PILSEN) | 0 | |
NEAR SOUTH SIDE | 0 | |
ARMOUR SQUARE | 0 | |
NORWOOD PARK | 0 | |
NEAR NORTH SIDE | 0 | |
LOOP | 0 | |
SOUTH SHORE | 0 | |
OAKLAND | 0 |
Total per capita COVID-19 deaths by Chicago neighborhood
Community Area ↑↓ | Deaths per 10,000 residents ↑↓ | Total Deaths ↑↓ |
---|---|---|
BURNSIDE | 57.7 | 13 |
FULLER PARK | 53.3 | 13 |
SOUTH SHORE | 43.2 | 218 |
MONTCLARE | 42.7 | 59 |
WEST ENGLEWOOD | 40.4 | 121 |
NEW CITY | 38.7 | 153 |
ROSELAND | 38.4 | 163 |
NORTH PARK | 38.2 | 72 |
PULLMAN | 37.8 | 25 |
MORGAN PARK | 36.6 | 82 |
ALBANY PARK | 36.5 | 190 |
AUSTIN | 36.2 | 345 |
NORWOOD PARK | 35.3 | 131 |
WEST PULLMAN | 35.3 | 98 |
ENGLEWOOD | 35.1 | 88 |
CALUMET HEIGHTS | 33.4 | 44 |
AUBURN GRESHAM | 33.3 | 154 |
GARFIELD RIDGE | 33.2 | 121 |
WASHINGTON HEIGHTS | 32.4 | 89 |
SOUTH LAWNDALE (LITTLE VILLAGE) | 31.9 | 239 |
GREATER GRAND CROSSING | 31.5 | 100 |
AVALON PARK | 31 | 31 |
ASHBURN | 29.5 | 129 |
DOUGLAS | 29.4 | 61 |
WEST RIDGE | 29 | 221 |
UPTOWN | 28.6 | 166 |
CHATHAM | 28.3 | 88 |
ROGERS PARK | 28.3 | 156 |
CHICAGO LAWN | 28.2 | 150 |
GAGE PARK | 27.4 | 112 |
SOUTH DEERING | 27.4 | 40 |
BELMONT CRAGIN | 26.9 | 215 |
NORTH LAWNDALE | 26.7 | 96 |
SOUTH CHICAGO | 26.5 | 75 |
EAST GARFIELD PARK | 24 | 48 |
GRAND BOULEVARD | 23.8 | 53 |
LINCOLN SQUARE | 23.7 | 99 |
WEST LAWN | 23.6 | 78 |
HUMBOLDT PARK | 23.2 | 131 |
ARCHER HEIGHTS | 22.8 | 30 |