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 .
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The people who died had pre-existing health conditions, and their secondary cause of death was listed as cold exposure, according to the Cook County Medical Examiner’s office.