Cook County Court Sentencing Records for Convicted Charges

Sentencing data from Cook County, Illinois, reflects the judgment imposed by the court on people found guilty. Each row represents a charge that has been sentenced. The dataset is no longer actively maintained as of December 30, 2024, with the Cook County State's Attorney's Office publishing new data dashboards beginning in 2025.

Use Cases

• Analyze sentencing patterns and outcomes based on charge-level data.
• Study disparities in criminal justice outcomes based on the reported sentencing judgments.
• Model trends in court-imposed judgments for convicted individuals.

Strengths

• Data is provided in multiple machine-readable formats: CSV, JSON, RDF, and XML.
• Published by the Cook County State's Attorney's Office, an authoritative government source.

Limitations

• Dataset is no longer actively maintained as of December 30, 2024; freshness should be verified.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.

Provenance

Source

Cook County State's Attorney's Office

Collection Method

Likely extracted from court records or case management systems.

Time Range

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Freshness

Last updated 2026 03 22 03:25:46.526953; but data collection ceased in 2024.

Geography

Cook County, Illinois, United States