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cam rodriguez 🔎 @camrodriguez.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

In order to track heat-related deaths, we pulled from the Cook County Medical Examiner's Office online case archive. I pulled together a little bot that would scrape and save data every hour, grab deaths flagged as heat-related, then message a Slack channel with updates. github.com/cam-rodrigue...

A message sent to a Slack channel with new heat-related deaths. The message reads:

Heat deaths update, Tuesday August 04 03:37 PM

7 new rows were added to the dataset between the last scrape and this one

Click here to view the data portal, and here to view the most recent copy. @channel

• Case number ME2026-03491: a 48-year-old Black Male in Chicago. The determined cause of death is HEAT STROKE and ETHANOL INTOXICATION. The death date was 2026-07-02 and the incident that led to their 2026-07-02 at 2916 W. Polk Ave, Chicago, Il 60612. view incident location here.

Case number ME2026-03506: a 57-year-old Latino White Male in Chicago. The determined cause of death is HYPERTENSIVE AND ATHEROSCLEROTIC CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE and DIABETES MELLITUS; HEAT STRESS. The death date was 2026-07-03 and the incident that led to their death was on 2026-07-03 at 3288 S Archer Ave Unit 2, Chicago, II 60608. view incident location here.

Case number ME2026-03513: a 71-year-old Black Female in Chicago. The determined cause of death is HYPERTENSIVE CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE and ASTHMA, OBESITY, HEAT STRESS. The death date was 2026-07-03 and the incident that led to their death was on 2026-07-03 at 1016 W 70Th St Apt 1E, Chicago, II 60621. view incident location here.

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cam rodriguez 🔎 @camrodriguez.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

It uses GitHub Actions, the Socrata API and Slack SDK. Human made after a lot of trial and error, but it enabled us to run quick wire stories (with @vimiller.bsky.social's help!) following each new death within hours of it being released by the ME's office. chicago.suntimes.com/news/2026/09...

chicago.suntimes.com

Man dies of heat-related causes on South Side, raising Cook County's heat death toll to 14

More people have died from the heat in the county this year than in any previous year of the last decade, according to a WBEZ and Chicago Sun-Times analysis

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cam rodriguez 🔎 @camrodriguez.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Anyway, documentation here. :-) github.com/cam-rodrigue...

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GitHub - cam-rodriguez/cpm_heatbot: 🤖 pull heat-related deaths from the Cook County Medical Examiner's Office

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