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CHICAGO — Two new cold weather deaths have brought the total number of confirmed or suspected Cook County weather deaths to seven since a snowstorm and frigid temperatures swept through the Midwest, officials said Wednesday. Officials in Will and Lake counties had also reported at least three possible weather-related deaths in the same period. Police said Vanda Parish, 66, of the North Center neighborhood, was found unresponsive outside her home Tuesday morning and pronounced dead at Advocate Illinois Masonic Medical Center. An autopsy found that Parish died of injuries related to a fall down …

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