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Illinois county death feed: new obituaries in every county

One subscription. Every county in Illinois. See new obituaries as they're published, the relatives named in them, and possible property matches where available. That gives investors, agents, trust managers, skip tracers and proptech teams an earlier start on their research. Relatives named in an obituary are not a legal determination of heirs. $249 a month per state after a 5-day free trial. Pull all counties or filter to a single county with county_slug.

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Illinois Death & Obituary Data

Aggregate metrics from ObituaryMonitor's eligible Daily County Intelligence notice universe: not official vital statistics.

1,803

Deaths detected in the last 7 days

7,029

Deaths detected in the last 30 days

721

Active sources monitored (30 days)

100

Counties with recent activity

2 hours ago

Latest snapshot refresh

Data updated 2 hours ago

Illinois Death Data by County

100 counties with recent activity

Explore recent death and obituary activity detected across supported counties. Search the coverage table below to see where eligible Daily County Intelligence records have been detected during the last 30 days.

County30-day recordsSourcesLatest activityStatus
Cook County1,812197TodayActive
Madison County56724TodayActive
DuPage County42539TodayActive
Will County29434YesterdayActive
St. Clair County24823TodayActive
Lake County21135TodayActive
Kane County18923YesterdayActive
Rock Island County17210YesterdayActive
Winnebago County17020YesterdayActive
McHenry County14819TodayActive
Sangamon County13417YesterdayActive
Christian County12052 days agoActive
Tazewell County11715YesterdayActive
Peoria County11016YesterdayActive
DeKalb County10710YesterdayActive

Recent Deaths Detected Across Illinois

Counts of death and obituary records detected by ObituaryMonitor, not official state mortality totals.

Last 7 days

1,803

Previous 7 days: 1,968 · -8% vs prior period

Last 30 days

7,029

Previous 30 days: 7,843 · -10% vs prior period

These figures represent records detected by ObituaryMonitor and should not be interpreted as official state mortality statistics.

What Illinois Death & Obituary Records Can Include

Field availability across recent eligible Illinois Daily County Intelligence records (trailing 30 days).

Name

100%

of recent Illinois records

Date of death

100%

of recent Illinois records

City / location

98.3%

of recent Illinois records

County

100%

of recent Illinois records

Source URL

100%

of recent Illinois records

Funeral home / publisher

100%

of recent Illinois records

Notice text read

92.4%

of recent Illinois records

Where ObituaryMonitor Detects Illinois Death & Obituary Data

Cities with recent eligible activity (not a complete list of every community).

Chicago757Granite City254Blue Island166Belleville135Rockford134Naperville124Springfield102Morrisonville98Joliet97Moline85Princeton81Decatur78

Illinois Funeral Homes & Obituary Sources

ObituaryMonitor monitors funeral homes and obituary sources across Illinois to detect newly published death and obituary information. Eligible records become available through Daily County Intelligence. Listing a source here does not imply a partnership.

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How Illinois Daily County Intelligence Works

  1. ObituaryMonitor monitors 17,565+ funeral-home and newspaper sources.
  2. New death records are detected and normalized.
  3. Geographic information is assigned where supported.
  4. Eligible Illinois records become available through Daily County Intelligence.
  5. Customers receive new records through API, CSV, or portal delivery.

Data is continuously collected from monitored sources, not sold as a static list.

Access Illinois Death Data Your Way

API

Receive eligible Illinois death and obituary records programmatically in JSON.

Explore the Daily County Intelligence →

CSV

Download or export records for operational workflows and CRM import.

Web Portal

Review and filter new Illinois records through the ObituaryMonitor portal.

Who Uses Illinois Death Data?

Real Estate Investors

Monitor newly detected deaths across every county in Illinois for potential probate or inherited-property research.

Probate & Legal Services

Identify recent deaths within geographic service areas and support downstream estate workflows.

Financial Institutions

Use death signals as an additional input in deceased-customer and risk-monitoring processes. Financial institutions monitoring

Data & Software Companies

Integrate normalized death and obituary data into software products and operational systems.

Research / Operations

Monitor county-level death events without manually checking individual obituary websites.

Example Illinois Death Data API Record

Illustrative sample record, not an actual person.

{
  "id": "fh-sample",
  "full_name": "Sample Person",
  "first_name": "Sample",
  "last_name": "Person",
  "date_of_death": "2026-08-08",
  "state": "IL",
  "county": "Cook",
  "county_slug": "cook-county-il",
  "city": "Chicago",
  "source_type": "funeral_home",
  "obituary_url": "https://example.com/sample",
  "funeral_home_name": "Example Funeral Home",
  "indexed_at": "2026-08-08T14:22:00.000Z",
  "survivors_status": "ok"
}

This example shows the structure of an eligible Daily County Intelligence record. Field names follow the public Daily County Intelligence notice schema. Internal-only fields are omitted.

Illinois Death Data & Daily County Intelligence FAQ

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Get new obituary notices as they're published, with relatives named in the obituary, possible property matches, and portal access to explore the details. Every county in Illinois is included.

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