Cook County Medical Examiner's office

A record 875 gun-related homicides occurred during 2020, the Cook County Medical Examiner’s office said Friday, breaking the previous record of 833 set in 1994. The medical examiner’s office released the information Jan. 1, as well as preliminary 2020 data on overall homicides, COVID-19 deaths, overdose deaths and suicides. Overall, 970 homicides were reported in 2020, the highest number in…

More than 900 homicides have occurred so far in 2020, the Cook County Medical Examiner’s Office said Monday. Of a total 902 homicides between Jan. 1 and Nov. 30 in Chicago and suburban Cook County, 810 were the result of gunshot wounds. In all of 2019, the medical examiner’s office handled a total of 675 homicides. This year marked the…

A 20-year-old man was killed in a forklift accident Thursday in suburban Glenwood, according to the medical examiner’s office. The accident happened about 10:30 p.m. in the 300 block of West 194th Street, the Cook County medical examiner’s office said. Rosendo Ortiz, of Crown Point, Indiana was pronounced dead at the scene, the medical examiner’s office said. An autopsy...

The Cook County Medical Examiner’s Office has confirmed its first two cold-related fatalities of the season after a 58-year-old man and a 69-year-old woman died this month. According to the medical examiner’s office, a 58-year-old man died in Chicago on Oct. 7 as a result of necrotizing pneumonia, with hypothermia as a result of environmental cold exposure as a...

A man was found stabbed to death Tuesday morning in west suburban Elk Grove Village. The Elk Grove Village Police Department was dispatched to the 1400 block of Greenleaf Tuesday around 8 a.m., where officers found a deceased male in a grassy area near the railroad tracks. The 45-year-old man from Des Plaines had suffered multiple stab wounds, according to…

A total of 15 gun-related homicides took place across Cook County Sunday, the highest number of daily homicides the chief medical examiner said she has seen in her more than 18 years with the county. Three additional forensic pathologists were called in Monday to handle an increased caseload of 35 autopsies, which is approximately 15 to 20 more than the…

Cook County has seen more deaths in the first half of 2020 than it had in all of 2019, Cook County Board President Toni Preckwinkle announced Wednesday.

A 19-year-old woman was killed in a crash last week in northwest suburban Wood Dale. A motorcycle and vehicle collided about 11:30 a.m. May 2 at the intersection of Wood Dale Road and Elmhurst Street, killing Angel Marie Foerster, of River Grove, the Cook County medical examiner’s office said. She was pronounced dead about 12 hours later at Lutheran General…

Two more people were confirmed dead of cold-related causes Wednesday, bringing the total in Cook County to 17 so far this season. Anthony Tomassetti, 33, was found dead Nov. 28 lying between buildings in the 8100 block of Knox Avenue in Skokie, the Cook County medical examiner’s office and Skokie police said. An autopsy ruled his death an accident, saying…

A man is in custody Friday after he allegedly stabbed a man to death in Lake View and called authorities to report it, police say. The stabbing, which police say is possibly domestic-related, happened about 11:45 a.m. in the 800 block of West Dakin Street, Chicago police said. A 44-year-old man called 911 to report that he had just killed…

The family of a pregnant woman who was fatally struck by a truck last month in River North has filed a wrongful death lawsuit against the driver and his employer. Michael Boshardy filed the four-count suit Oct. 11 in Cook County Circuit Court on behalf of his wife and their daughter, naming Edward J. Metz and Rauch Clay Sales Corporation...

Pictures of 5-month-old Anayelli Avina were pressed up against the window of her Hammond home Monday after police said the girl died Saturday, days after being beaten.