Child Abuse and Neglect Statistics
Annual Report—Fiscal Year 2000

Table 7
County Distribution of
Abuse and Neglect Reports
County
Number Children
Unique Number
Children*
Rate
per 1,000
County
Number Children
Unique Number
Children*
Rate
per 1,000
Adams 901 733 42.1 Livingston 705 526 52.0
Alexander 163 121 42.5 Logan 364 310 42.5
Bond 179 152 42.8 Macon 1,351 1,140 38.8
Boone 302 253 22.9 Macoupin 566 470 36.9
Brown 56 48 35.3 Madison 3,148 2,530 37.9
Bureau 231 206 21.9 Marion 817 612 54.3
Calhoun 50 40 33.4 Marshall 108 83 25.6
Carroll 174 144 33.8 Mason 192 161 36.5
Cass 136 125 36.2 Massac 200 173 45.8
Champaign 1,746 1,434 39.3 Mc Donough 242 212 31.9
Christian 347 280 31.9 Mc Henry 1,629 1,389 19.6
Clark 160 149 39.0 Mc Lean 1,712 1,389 40.5
Clay 158 133 35.6 Menard 115 101 29.1
Clinton 208 185 19.4 Mercer 122 116 24.7
Coles 608 497 45.6 Monroe 113 99 13.9
Cook 40,737 35,472 26.2 Montgomery 332 264 33.3
Crawford 202 162 32.3 Morgan 482 371 45.5
Cumberland 122 104 33.0 Moultrie 123 108 28.0
De Kalb 611 502 26.3 Ogle 456 389 27.8
De Witt 249 190 43.7 Peoria 2,644 2,277 47.6
Douglas 181 150 26.8 Perry 264 197 36.0
Du Page 2,708 2,423 10.4 Piatt 108 97 23.2
Edgar 219 192 38.0 Pike 176 147 33.6
Edwards 61 55 32.0 Pope 46 37 33.1
Effingham 285 224 22.2 Pulaski 125 111 51.2
Fayette 199 150 27.2 Putnam 39 37 24.6
Ford 119 99 27.1 Randolph 336 269 32.7
Franklin 651 515 51.9 Richland 246 208 47.6
Fulton 436 361 38.7 Rock Island 2,080 1,656 43.7
Gallatin 99 82 51.9 Saline 355 276 42.8
Greene 196 171 41.3 Sangamon 2,613 2,111 42.8
Grundy 215 199 19.4 Schuyler 100 77 40.1
Hamilton 104 80 37.8 Scott 45 41 27.4
Hancock 191 153 28.1 Shelby 181 163 27.5
Hardin 48 32 27.8 Stark 52 42 25.9
Henderson 44 40 18.1 St. Clair 3,060 2,657 35.0
Henry 470 415 29.9 Stephenson 532 422 33.4
Iroquois 263 238 29.4 Tazewell 1,035 878 26.8
Jackson 690 537 44.3 Union 179 153 35.8
Jasper 88 72 23.4 Vermilion 1,342 1,099 50.3
Jefferson 526 422 43.7 Wabash 152 115 35.2
Jersey 201 181 31.4 Warren 215 175 36.2
Jo Daviess 143 108 19.6 Washington 88 86 21.0
Johnson 100 83 31.7 Wayne 154 134 32.0
Kane 2,922 2,570 21.2 White 130 111 30.0
Kankakee 1,189 964 32.8 Whiteside 688 557 34.8
Kendall 243 223 14.4 Will 2,672 2,355 17.0
Knox 845 635 48.6 Williamson 819 656 44.9
Lake 3,673 3,211 18.9 Winnebago 3,591 2,951 41.6
Lasalle 1,421 1,131 39.8 Woodford 244 205 20.3
Lawrence 177 154 41.3 Unknown 2 2
Lee 376 289 31.1 State 103,513 87,834 27.6
*Unique Number of children reported is an unduplicated count within the County.