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Illinois Death Feed & Obituary API

Access continuously updated Illinois death and obituary data across supported counties. ObituaryMonitor detects newly published death information from funeral homes and obituary sources and makes eligible records available through API, CSV, and the County Feed portal.

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Illinois Death & Obituary Data

Aggregate metrics from ObituaryMonitor's eligible County Feed notice universe — not official vital statistics.

1,291

Deaths detected in the last 7 days

5,581

Deaths detected in the last 30 days

569

Active sources monitored (30 days)

91

Counties with recent activity

33 minutes ago

Latest snapshot refresh

Data updated 33 minutes ago

Illinois Death Data by County

91 counties with recent activity

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

County30-day recordsSourcesLatest activityStatus
Cook County1,408154TodayActive
DuPage County36132TodayActive
Madison County28216TodayActive
Kane County25622TodayActive
St. Clair County22917TodayActive
Will County21324TodayActive
Lake County16622TodayActive
Rock Island County14511TodayActive
Winnebago County11012TodayActive
DeKalb County1049TodayActive
Bureau County981TodayActive
McHenry County9717TodayActive
Peoria County9013TodayActive
Grundy County848TodayActive
Christian County8176 days agoActive

Recent Deaths Detected Across Illinois

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

Last 7 days

1,291

Previous 7 days: 1,472 · -12% vs prior period

Last 30 days

5,581

Compared with the prior 30-day window when available.

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 County Feed 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

Captured text excerpt

93.9%

of recent Illinois records

Where ObituaryMonitor Detects Illinois Death & Obituary Data

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

Chicago603Belleville120Naperville100Princeton98Joliet84Granite City81Rock Island74Country Club Hills69Rockford68Morrisonville66Genoa62Springfield57

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 County Feed. Listing a source here does not imply a partnership.

Browse Illinois Funeral Homes →

How Illinois County Feed Works

  1. ObituaryMonitor monitors thousands of obituary and funeral-home sources.
  2. New death records are detected and normalized.
  3. Geographic information is assigned where supported.
  4. Eligible Illinois records become available through County Feed.
  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 County Feed API →

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 in selected Illinois counties 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 County Feed record. Field names follow the public County Feed API notice schema. Internal-only fields are omitted.

Illinois Death Data & County Feed FAQ

Start Monitoring Illinois Death Data

Choose the Illinois counties that matter to your organization and receive newly detected records through API, CSV, or the ObituaryMonitor portal.

Also see the national County Feed product page and Browse Illinois Funeral Homes.