Bodies Doubled Up At Cook County Morgue

January 12, 2011 6:39 AM


The Cook County Medical Examiner’s Office (Credit: CBS)

CHICAGO (WBBM) – WBBM Newsradio 780 has learned that the cooler at the Cook County morgue is so crowded right now, bodies are doubled-up on some of the trays.

Why are there so many bodies?

“We had this huge upswing in deaths right at the end of the year, and with the holidays being on Saturdays, it really created a backlog because the funeral directors weren’t coming in,â€