Report Date: September 02, 2020

COVID-19 Morbidity and Mortality by Geography

GEOGRAPHY CASES1 DEATHS
Chicago 71,704 2,883
Suburban Cook County (IDPH) 55,891 2,190
Illinois (IDPH) 238,643 8,091
U.S. (CDC) 6,047,692 184,083
World (WHO) 25,602,665 852,758
1Does not include persons with pending COVID-19 tests or persons with COVID-19 related illness who have not been tested.

 

COVID-19 Death Characteristics for Chicago residents

CHARACTERISTIC  DEATHS % TOTAL DEATHS % DEATHS WITHIN GROUP RATE PER 100,000 POPULATION
Chicago 2,883 100% 4.0% 106.5
Age
0-17 2 0.1% 0.0% 0.4
18-29 23 0.8% 0.2% 4.2
30-39 70 2.4% 0.5% 15.3
40-49 160 5.5% 1.3% 47.6
50-59 319 11.1% 2.9% 101.9
60-69 630 21.9% 8.2% 239.6
70+ 1,679 58.2% 23.3% 713.5
Gender 
Female 1,192 41.3% 3.3% 86.0
Male 1,691 58.7% 4.9% 128.1
Under investigation 0 0% 0% -
Race-ethnicity2
Latinx 937 32.7% 3.4% 120.6
Black, non-Latinx 1,231 42.9% 7.5% 157.0
White, non-Latinx 550 19.2% 5.6% 61.1
Asian, non-Latinx 124 4.3% 8.1% 68.9
Other, non-Latinx 25 0.9% 0.9% 20.9
Under investigation 16 0.6% 0.1% -
2Race-ethnicity percentage is calculated among those with known race-ethnicity as reported by the medical provider.

COVID-19 Case Characteristics for Chicago residents 

CHARACTERISTIC  NUMBER % TOTAL CASES1 RATE PER 100,000
Chicago 71,704 100% 2,649.8
Age
0-17  4,736 6.6% 862.7
18-29 15,364 21.4% 2,778.6
30-39 13,119 18.3% 2,874.9
40-49 12,336 17.2% 3,666.4
50-59 11,163 15.6% 3,566.9
60-69 7,736 10.8% 2,941.5
70+ 7,234 10.1% 3,074.1
Under investigation 16 0.0% -
Gender 
Female 36,075 50.3% 2,602.6
Male 34,567 48.2% 2,619.0
Under investigation 1,062 1.5% -
Race-ethnicity2
Latinx 27,741 47.4% 3,571.8
Black, non-Latinx 16,516 28.2% 2,105.9
White, non-Latinx 9,830 16.8% 1,092.2
Asian, non-Latinx 1,525 2.6% 848.0
Other, non-Latinx 2,870 4.9% 2,402.3
Under investigation 13,222 18.4% -
2Race-ethnicity percentage is calculated among those with known race-ethnicity as reported by the medical provider.
COVID-19 Reports

Data Source: Providers reporting to CDPH through the Illinois' National Electronic Disease Surveillance System (I-NEDSS)
Data Source: Providers reporting to CDPH through the Illinois' National Electronic Disease Surveillance System (I-NEDSS)

COVID-19 Research Articles Authored by members of the Chicago Department of Public Health