An 81-year-old Evergreen Park woman found dead in her home Monday died of exposure, according to the Cook County Medical Examiner’s Office.
Mary Savisky, of the 9600 block of South Francisco Avenue, is the eighth cold-weather death reported in Cook County this winter.
An autopsy determined her cause of death to be cold exposure, with heart disease as a contributing cause. Her death was ruled accidental.
Temperatures were in the single digits on Monday, with a high around 7 degrees.
Weather conditions are expected to get even nastier this weekend, with dangerous wind chills of as low as -40 degrees possible Thursday night through Saturday morning with a strong chance of accumulating snow.
Savisky was the second person from the southwest suburbs to die from the weather this winter.
A 68-year-old woman whose body was found Nov. 28 near the Worth Public Library was Cook County’s first cold weather-related death, according to the Cook County Medical Examiner’s Office.
Autopsy results found the woman’s cause of death to be hypothermia and heart disease. Her death was ruled accidental.