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After the Office of the coroner was abolished, the Cook County Medical Examiner's Office was founded here in the 1976. This office serves one of the bloodiest cities in the world, half the population of the entire state of Illinois. More then 16,000 deaths are reported here annually.

The autopsy report for the St. Valentine's Day Massacre is kept here. In 1978, the remains of John Wayne Gacy, Jr.'s victims were brought here for examination after they were discovered buried under his house.

The office lost its national accreditation in 2011 due to a shortage of staff and stacked bodies. A morgue vault designed to hold 300 bodies was piled with over 360. The limbs of corpses were sticking out and decomposition covered the floor.

Located at 2121 W. Harrison St.
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Author Stephen Hogan from Chicago, United States
Camera location41° 52′ 26.56″ N, 87° 40′ 46.2″ W Kartographer map based on OpenStreetMap.View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMapinfo

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