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Medical Examiner’s Office Releases Preliminary 2022 Data

The Cook County Medical Examiner’s Office is releasing preliminary statistics for cases it handled in 2022. The Office’s caseload continued to significantly surpass pre-COVID levels, with 10,443 cases falling under the Office’s jurisdiction last year. This is a drop from a peak caseload of 16,047 in 2020 and 12,612 cases in 2021. Before the pandemic began, the Office saw approximately 6,200 deaths in an average year. Nearly 43% of all cases in 2022 were Black and just over 14% Latino.

Suburban Centers to Remain Operational Throughout the Holiday Weekend

Cook County is opening 24-hour warming centers in the north, west and south suburbs to help residents combat extreme weather conditions. The warming centers will open at 5 p.m. tonight and run continuously until 8 a.m. Monday, December 26.

Residents who do not have adequate access to heat are advised to seek respite at a warming center.

The center locations are as follows:

The County is sharing tips and information to keep residents and pets safe

The season’s first major winter storm will bring high winds and dangerously low temperatures to the region. Cook County is sharing the following information to keep residents and pets safe.

Heat Safety Awareness

The County’s Emergency Management and Regional Security encourages residents to follow the following tips during cold weather to keep themselves and their families safe:

President Preckwinkle today announced a major update to the Cook County 2010-2020 Census Demographics App. The updated interactive map makes it easier to identify a variety of demographic changes that took place in Cook County on a census-tract level between 2015 and 2020.

The Cook County Board of Commissioners approved funding today for transportation-related projects, maintenance-related equipment and materials for the County’s Department of Transportation and Highways (DoTH).

The type, cost and scope of each project is listed below.

Countywide Geotechnical Engineering Services | $750,000
Professional services for soil sampling, testing, analyses and recommendations to support the design of transportation improvement projects countywide.

Cook County announces financial counseling partnership with Working Credit

Today, Cook County Board President Toni Preckwinkle announced that the first payments to participants in the Cook County Promise Guaranteed Income Pilot (Promise Pilot) have been released and will reach participants in the coming days. The $42 million pilot is the largest publicly-funded guaranteed income program in American history, and received over 233,000 applications during the open application period between October 6 and October 21.

Tanya Anthony and Zahra Ali bring track records of success to their new roles

Cook County Board President Toni Preckwinkle announced the appointments of Tanya S. Anthony (left) to Chief Financial Officer (CFO) of the County’s Bureau of Finance (BOF) and Zahra Ali (right) to Chief Administrative Officer (CAO) of the County’s Bureau of Administration (BOA) today. The two will assume their new roles on January 1, with confirmation from the Board of Commissioners expected at the January board meeting.

All lanes of the bridge will be closed for repairs Friday night through Sunday evening

The Cook County Department of Transportation and Highways is closing all lanes of the Crawford Avenue/Pulaski Road bridge over the Cal-Sag Channel in Alsip, Crestwood and Robbins, IL to traffic beginning Friday, December 9 at 10 p.m. through Sunday, December 11 at 6 p.m. The closure is being planned for necessary overhead structural steel repairs to the bridge.

COOK COUNTY, IL — Today, Cook County Board President Toni Preckwinkle and the Illinois Manufacturing Excellence Center (IMEC) announced a new round of applications for Manufacturing Reinvented, a $5 million grant program that supports local, suburban manufacturers with the implementation of projects to improve a business’s competitiveness and resiliency in the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic environment.