Child Abuse and Neglect Statistics
Annual Report—Fiscal Year 1999

Demographics

Table 7
County Distribution of Abuse and Neglect Reports
Fiscal Year 1999
County Number Children Unique Number
Children		 Rate
per 1,000		   County Number Children Unique Number
Children		 Rate
per 1,000
Adams 763 604 34.7   Livingston 568 430 42.5
Alexander 190 147 51.7   Logan 350 279 38.2
Bond 173 143 40.2   Macon 1,520 1,248 42.5
Boone 279 234 21.2   Macoupin 557 410 32.2
Brown 41 25 18.4   Madison 3,057 2,515 37.7
Bureau 268 225 23.9   Marion 687 533 47.3
Calhoun 13 12 10.0   Marshall 93 79 24.4
Carroll 156 132 31.0   Mason 230 193 43.8
Cass 185 141 40.9   Massac 219 180 47.7
Champaign 1,476 1,265 34.7   Mc Donough 325 257 38.7
Christian 380 315 35.9   Mc Henry 1,631 1,357 19.1
Clark 132 113 29.6   Mc Lean 1,763 1,421 41.4
Clay 137 113 30.2   Menard 113 89 25.7
Clinton 252 208 21.8   Mercer 146 130 27.7
Coles 724 555 50.9   Monroe 106 91 12.7
Cook 43,195 37,359 27.6   Montgomery 356 275 34.7
Crawford 189 159 31.7   Morgan 437 366 44.9
Cumberland 124 90 28.6   Moultrie 105 92 23.9
De Kalb 720 583 30.5   Ogle 483 391 27.9
De Witt 273 202 46.4   Peoria 2,626 2,194 45.9
Douglas 192 149 26.6   Perry 237 179 32.7
Du Page 2,945 2,598 11.1   Piatt 82 66 15.8
Edgar 300 213 42.2   Pike 245 195 44.6
Edwards 43 39 22.7   Pope 40 32 28.6
Effingham 384 281 27.8   Pulaski 119 105 48.4
Fayette 260 218 39.6   Putnam 39 31 20.6
Ford 148 120 32.8   Randolph 292 246 29.9
Franklin 491 400 40.3   Richland 210 175 40.0
Fulton 419 359 38.5   Rock Island 2,057 1,694 44.7
Gallatin 69 54 34.2   Saline 439 313 48.5
Greene 191 157 37.9   Sangamon 2,429 1,955 39.6
Grundy 201 170 16.6   Schuyler 46 40 20.8
Hamilton 89 65 30.7   Scott 46 40 26.7
Hancock 200 162 29.8   Shelby 190 156 26.3
Hardin 65 60 52.2   Stark 44 36 22.2
Henderson 63 51 23.1   St. Clair 3,363 2,788 36.8
Henry 423 346 24.9   Stephenson 553 436 34.5
Iroquois 285 235 29.0   Tazewell 1,148 996 30.4
Jackson 673 496 41.0   Union 208 179 41.9
Jasper 82 58 18.8   Vermilion 1,441 1,152 52.8
Jefferson 544 410 42.4   Wabash 122 106 32.5
Jersey 171 133 23.0   Warren 308 250 51.7
Jo Daviess 144 124 22.5   Washington 99 87 21.2
Johnson 68 58 22.2   Wayne 165 130 31.0
Kane 3,152 2,676 22.1   White 159 126 34.0
Kankakee 1,224 1,001 34.0   Whiteside 687 528 33.0
Kendall 208 182 11.8   Will 2,577 2,242 16.2
Knox 727 574 43.9   Williamson 693 545 37.3
Lake 4,019 3,340 19.6   Winnebago 3,643 2,935 41.4
Lasalle 1,575 1,189 41.8   Woodford 249 190 18.8
Lawrence 177 142 38.1   Out of State 1 1 -
Lee 388 295 31.7   State 106,893 89,464 28.1