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NewsColony Family Mourns Cook County Correctional Officer Who Died Of Coronavirus CHICAGO (CBS) — The Cook County Jail continues to be one of the biggest hotspots in the country with 215 detainees now having tested positive for coronavirus. This week, the county Sheriff’s office lost one of their own who worked there as a correctional officer. CBS 2’s Marissa Parra spoke to the family of the officer, Sheila Rivera . Officer Sheila Rivera (left). (Supplied by family) A total of 185 correctional officers had COVID-19 as of Tuesday. Another 100 Cook County Sheriff’s employees have recovered and returned to work. One of those who was sick was Officer Rivera. The virus killed her on Sunday. “She liked helping people,” said Rivera’s brother, Sonny Mattera. Rivera was once a social worker and then became a police officer before finding her place as a corrections officer with the Cook County Jail. Even among the detainees, her brother said, she was respected. “Some of the inmates...