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CBS 2 Investigators: A Look At The COVID-19 Hot Spots In Chicago’s African American Communities (380 hits)

CBS 2 Investigators: A Look At The COVID-19 Hot Spots In Chicago’s African American Communities

CHICAGO (CBS) — Monday marks 88 days since the coronavirus was first confirmed in Illinois.

And African Americans now represent 57% of all COVID-19 deaths in Chicago. In just the last two-weeks, the number of black victims has tripled.

CBS 2 Investigator Dorothy Tucker first identified five hot spots using maps CBS 2 created. Now, she’s digging deeper into the data and found in the neighborhoods where the victims lived, many have essential jobs that increase their chances of being exposed to the deadly virus.

Look no further than these blue points on the map. These are people who died of coronavirus. Most of them live in Chicago’s black communities, the hot spots for COVID-19 deaths.

When CBS 2 first took a look two weeks ago, five neighborhoods had the worse deaths: South Shore, Englewood, Auburn Gresham, Austin and Chatham. It was bad then. It is worse now.

Englewood is leading the way. The numbers of deaths have jumped from six to 23 as of last Friday. South Shore is almost as bad: seven deaths two weeks ago. By the weekend 22.

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