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Child Abuse and Neglect Statistics
Annual Report—Fiscal Year 1997

Table 8 County Distribution of Indicated Reports Fiscal Year 1997
County	Number Families	Number Children	Rate per 1,000
Adams	189	329	19.3
Alexander	32	47	15.3
Bond	39	67	18.2
Boone	62	99	11.5
Brown	9	9	7.0
Bureau	69	110	11.7
Calhoun	4	6	4.6
Carroll	46	86	20.4
Cass	23	40	11.5
Champaign	435	808	21.4
Christian	78	260	29.8
Clark	32	53	13.5
Clay	32	44	12.0
Clinton	52	99	10.8
Coles	142	218	20.4
Cook	9,686	17,871	14.0
Crawford	50	89	18.5
Cumberland	17	42	14.0
De Kalb	153	274	16.4
De Witt	51	83	19.5
Douglas	26	37	6.7
Du Page	527	862	4.2
Edgar	53	88	17.6
Edwards	18	32	17.5
Effingham	65	118	12.3
Fayette	63	121	23.2
Ford	25	53	14.4
Franklin	74	118	12.2
Fulton	133	255	27.4
Gallatin	16	25	15.3
Greene	39	62	15.3
Grundy	33	51	5.7
Hamilton	28	45	22.0
Hancock	57	96	17.5
Hardin	4	6	4.9
Henderson	11	20	9.7
Henry	109	199	14.5
Iroquois	56	97	12.2
Jackson	155	301	25.9
Jasper	19	37	12.3
Jefferson	109	197	19.8
Jersey	38	57	10.3
Jo Daviess	49	82	14.3
Johnson	11	21	9.3
Kane	773	1,287	13.6
Kankakee	299	569	21.0
Kendall	64	108	9.2
Knox	185	361	26.8
Lake	752	1,296	9.1
Lasalle	350	692	25.4
Lawrence	40	76	20.0
Lee	85	145	16.3