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Chicago Area Sees Steep Rise In Suicide Among Black People
Resume![Cook County, Illinois, which includes Chicago and some suburbs, is on track for its highest rate of suicide among Black people in at least a decade. (Adek Berry/AFP/Getty Images)](https://wordpress.wbur.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/GettyImages-958445634-1000x666.jpg)
Cook County, Illinois, which includes Chicago and some suburbs, is on track for its highest rate of suicide among Black people in at least a decade. While the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reports the number of suicides in the U.S. has been rising for decades, there hasn't been a similar rise in suicide among Latinx or white residents of Cook County this year.
Here & Now's Tonya Mosley speaks with Lakeidra Chavis, a reporter for The Trace in Chicago.
This segment aired on August 4, 2020.