By: Diane Benjamin
All of these coroner reports are available in the documentation for the County Justice Committee: https://mcleancountyil.gov/478/Justice-Committee
See January-March of 2024 reports here: https://blnnews.com/2024/05/03/the-coroners-reports/
The first 3 months of 2024 show 7 suicides. I don’t know if “probable” are reflected the following month or not.
The reports below add another 12, total of 19 suicides through September. I asked the coroner for an age range, I haven’t received a response yet.
Drug overdoses in 2024 total 21 with 3 more months to report.
The number of deaths continue to be higher than last year after reversing the trend in previous years.
Just for comparison, total suicides in 2020 were 27, drug overdoes were 20: https://blnnews.com/2021/02/04/2020-mclean-county-suicides/
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