Tag: suicide

Written by Diane Benjamin - editor

2024 Suicides and Drug Overdoses

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 […]

Written by Diane Benjamin - editor

Local Stats nobody talks about – deaths

By:  Diane Benjamin I compiled these numbers from the Coroner’s Report filed monthly with the McLean County Board Justice Committee.   All of the below can be found in the meeting attachments here: https://www.mcleancountyil.gov/478/Justice-Committee I wanted to see what effect the COVID shutdown is having in McLean County.  There isn’t enough information in the Coroner’s report […]