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:
3306
Last updated November 29, 2020
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 (Nov 8th-Nov 29th)
| Community Area ↑↓ | Deaths per 10,000 residents ↑↓ | Total Deaths ↑↓ |
|---|---|---|
| 8 | 0 | |
| O'HARE | 6.5 | 8 |
| BURNSIDE | 4.4 | 1 |
| MONTCLARE | 4.3 | 6 |
| WEST LAWN | 3 | 10 |
| PULLMAN | 3 | 2 |
| NORWOOD PARK | 3 | 11 |
| CLEARING | 2.3 | 6 |
| HERMOSA | 2.1 | 5 |
| GAGE PARK | 2 | 8 |
| NORTH LAWNDALE | 1.9 | 7 |
| EAST SIDE | 1.7 | 4 |
| CHICAGO LAWN | 1.7 | 9 |
| EDISON PARK | 1.7 | 2 |
| SOUTH LAWNDALE (LITTLE VILLAGE) | 1.7 | 13 |
| WEST ENGLEWOOD | 1.7 | 5 |
| UPTOWN | 1.6 | 9 |
| GARFIELD RIDGE | 1.6 | 6 |
| MOUNT GREENWOOD | 1.6 | 3 |
| ARCHER HEIGHTS | 1.5 | 2 |
| WEST PULLMAN | 1.4 | 4 |
| NEW CITY | 1.3 | 5 |
| MCKINLEY PARK | 1.3 | 2 |
| AUSTIN | 1.2 | 11 |
| LOGAN SQUARE | 1.2 | 9 |
| HUMBOLDT PARK | 1.2 | 7 |
| WASHINGTON HEIGHTS | 1.1 | 3 |
| ASHBURN | 1.1 | 5 |
| JEFFERSON PARK | 1.1 | 3 |
| DUNNING | 1.1 | 5 |
| SOUTH CHICAGO | 1.1 | 3 |
| BRIGHTON PARK | 1.1 | 5 |
| BELMONT CRAGIN | 1 | 8 |
| WEST ELSDON | 1 | 2 |
| LINCOLN SQUARE | 1 | 4 |
| BEVERLY | 1 | 2 |
| EAST GARFIELD PARK | 1 | 2 |
| LOWER WEST SIDE (PILSEN) | 0.9 | 3 |
| PORTAGE PARK | 0.9 | 6 |
| WASHINGTON PARK | 0.9 | 1 |
Total per capita COVID-19 deaths by Chicago neighborhood
| Community Area ↑↓ | Deaths per 10,000 residents ↑↓ | Total Deaths ↑↓ |
|---|---|---|
| NORTH PARK | 25.5 | 48 |
| SOUTH SHORE | 24.4 | 123 |
| MORGAN PARK | 20.1 | 45 |
| SOUTH LAWNDALE (LITTLE VILLAGE) | 19.8 | 148 |
| ALBANY PARK | 18.5 | 96 |
| ROGERS PARK | 18 | 99 |
| MONTCLARE | 17.4 | 24 |
| NEW CITY | 17.2 | 68 |
| WEST ENGLEWOOD | 16.7 | 50 |
| FULLER PARK | 16.4 | 4 |
| AUSTIN | 16.3 | 155 |
| UPTOWN | 16.2 | 94 |
| GARFIELD RIDGE | 15.9 | 58 |
| CHICAGO LAWN | 15.8 | 84 |
| NORTH LAWNDALE | 15.6 | 56 |
| ROSELAND | 15.6 | 66 |
| WEST PULLMAN | 15.5 | 43 |
| NORWOOD PARK | 15.4 | 57 |
| ASHBURN | 15.1 | 66 |
| GREATER GRAND CROSSING | 14.8 | 47 |
| WEST RIDGE | 14.7 | 112 |
| HERMOSA | 14.5 | 35 |
| DOUGLAS | 13.5 | 28 |
| LINCOLN SQUARE | 13.4 | 56 |
| BURNSIDE | 13.3 | 3 |
| LOWER WEST SIDE (PILSEN) | 12.8 | 42 |
| WASHINGTON HEIGHTS | 12.7 | 35 |
| BELMONT CRAGIN | 12.4 | 99 |
| GAGE PARK | 12.2 | 50 |
| SOUTH CHICAGO | 12 | 34 |
| LOGAN SQUARE | 11.6 | 85 |
| WEST LAWN | 10.9 | 36 |
| HUMBOLDT PARK | 10.8 | 61 |
| ENGLEWOOD | 10.4 | 26 |
| GRAND BOULEVARD | 10.3 | 23 |
| SOUTH DEERING | 10.3 | 15 |
| LINCOLN PARK | 10.2 | 69 |
| AVALON PARK | 10 | 10 |
| KENWOOD | 9.9 | 17 |
| ARCHER HEIGHTS | 9.9 | 13 |