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:
4,940
Last updated April 17, 2021
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 (Mar 27th-Apr 17th)
| Community Area ↑↓ | Deaths per 10,000 residents ↑↓ | Total Deaths ↑↓ |
|---|---|---|
| 8 | 0 | |
| OAKLAND | 1.5 | 1 |
| PULLMAN | 1.5 | 1 |
| MONTCLARE | 1.4 | 2 |
| EAST SIDE | 1.3 | 3 |
| SOUTH CHICAGO | 1.1 | 3 |
| EDISON PARK | 0.9 | 1 |
| CALUMET HEIGHTS | 0.8 | 1 |
| O'HARE | 0.8 | 1 |
| WEST RIDGE | 0.7 | 5 |
| SOUTH DEERING | 0.7 | 1 |
| WEST LAWN | 0.6 | 2 |
| GREATER GRAND CROSSING | 0.6 | 2 |
| PORTAGE PARK | 0.6 | 4 |
| CHICAGO LAWN | 0.6 | 3 |
| KENWOOD | 0.6 | 1 |
| AUBURN GRESHAM | 0.6 | 3 |
| WEST GARFIELD PARK | 0.6 | 1 |
| FOREST GLEN | 0.5 | 1 |
| NORWOOD PARK | 0.5 | 2 |
| NORTH PARK | 0.5 | 1 |
| WEST ELSDON | 0.5 | 1 |
| MOUNT GREENWOOD | 0.5 | 1 |
| EAST GARFIELD PARK | 0.5 | 1 |
| UPTOWN | 0.5 | 3 |
| WEST PULLMAN | 0.4 | 1 |
| AUSTIN | 0.4 | 4 |
| HUMBOLDT PARK | 0.4 | 2 |
| GRAND BOULEVARD | 0.4 | 1 |
| LOGAN SQUARE | 0.4 | 3 |
| WASHINGTON HEIGHTS | 0.4 | 1 |
| HYDE PARK | 0.4 | 1 |
| HERMOSA | 0.4 | 1 |
| NEW CITY | 0.3 | 1 |
| NORTH CENTER | 0.3 | 1 |
| NORTH LAWNDALE | 0.3 | 1 |
| AVONDALE | 0.3 | 1 |
| WEST ENGLEWOOD | 0.3 | 1 |
| CHATHAM | 0.3 | 1 |
| EDGEWATER | 0.2 | 1 |
Total per capita COVID-19 deaths by Chicago neighborhood
| Community Area ↑↓ | Deaths per 10,000 residents ↑↓ | Total Deaths ↑↓ |
|---|---|---|
| MONTCLARE | 31.8 | 44 |
| NORTH PARK | 30.3 | 57 |
| NORWOOD PARK | 28.3 | 105 |
| SOUTH SHORE | 27.6 | 139 |
| MORGAN PARK | 26.8 | 60 |
| ALBANY PARK | 26.4 | 137 |
| SOUTH LAWNDALE (LITTLE VILLAGE) | 25.8 | 193 |
| WEST ENGLEWOOD | 25.1 | 75 |
| NEW CITY | 24 | 95 |
| AUSTIN | 23.3 | 222 |
| ROSELAND | 23.3 | 99 |
| ROGERS PARK | 22.5 | 124 |
| BURNSIDE | 22.2 | 5 |
| GAGE PARK | 22 | 90 |
| UPTOWN | 21.9 | 127 |
| WEST RIDGE | 21.9 | 167 |
| CHICAGO LAWN | 21.8 | 116 |
| GARFIELD RIDGE | 21.7 | 79 |
| WEST PULLMAN | 21.3 | 59 |
| PULLMAN | 21.2 | 14 |
| ASHBURN | 20.6 | 90 |
| FULLER PARK | 20.5 | 5 |
| BELMONT CRAGIN | 20.4 | 163 |
| DOUGLAS | 20.2 | 42 |
| LINCOLN SQUARE | 19.4 | 81 |
| WASHINGTON HEIGHTS | 19.3 | 53 |
| NORTH LAWNDALE | 18.9 | 68 |
| HERMOSA | 18.6 | 45 |
| CALUMET HEIGHTS | 18.2 | 24 |
| GREATER GRAND CROSSING | 17.9 | 57 |
| SOUTH DEERING | 17.8 | 26 |
| HUMBOLDT PARK | 17.4 | 98 |
| LOWER WEST SIDE (PILSEN) | 17 | 56 |
| SOUTH CHICAGO | 16.6 | 47 |
| LOGAN SQUARE | 15.7 | 115 |
| WEST LAWN | 15.7 | 52 |
| O'HARE | 15.4 | 19 |
| AVALON PARK | 15 | 15 |
| ENGLEWOOD | 14.8 | 37 |
| BRIGHTON PARK | 14.5 | 65 |