Municipalities around Cook County have opened cooling centers for area residents as temperatures start to rise. Residents who need to seek shelter should contact the center first to verify it is open. This dataset will be no longer updated on May 1, 2019. Please refer to this link for future updates: https://datacatalog.cookcountyil.gov/dataset/Cook-County-Cooling-Centers-Map/dnn9-esge
The Initiation results data presented here reflects all of the arrests that came through the door of the State's Attorneys Office (SAO). An initiation is how an arrest turns into a “case” in the courts. Most cases are initiated through a process known as felony review, in which SAO attorneys make a decision whether or not to prosecute. Cases may also be indicted by a grand jury or, in narcotics cases, filed directly by law enforcement (labeled "BOND SET (Narcotics)" in this data). Included in this data set are the defendant counts by initiation and year. This data includes felony cases handled by the Criminal, Narcotics, and Special Prosecution Bureaus. It does not include information about cases processed through the Juvenile Justice and Civil Actions Bureaus.
Please use this link for more instructions and data glossary:
https://www.cookcountystatesattorney.org/resources/how-read-data
The disposition data presented in this data reflects the culmination of the fact-finding process that leads to the resolution of a case. Each row represents a charge that has been disposed of.
