Hinsdale Sees Big Increase In New Virus Cases: Agencies

HINSDALE, IL — Hinsdale and Clarendon Hills saw big weekly hikes in new coronavirus cases in the last week, according to county health agencies.

As of Sunday, Hinsdale had 3,055 coronavirus cases since the start of the pandemic, up 190 in the last week. The previous week, the village recorded 103 new cases. Four weeks ago, the village broke a record at 198.

Meanwhile, Clarendon Hills reached 1,699 coronavirus cases, up 149 in the last week, the highest weekly number since the beginning of the pandemic. The week before, the village experienced 48 cases.

Hinsdale's coronavirus deaths increased by one in the last week, with the total at 64 since the pandemic's beginning, according to county agencies. Clarendon Hills' number of deaths stayed the same in the last week, at 17.

Here is the growth in coronavirus case numbers in Hinsdale and Clarendon Hills:

As of Sunday, Hinsdale had 173 coronavirus cases per thousand people since the pandemic's beginning. The figure compares to 159 in Darien, 179 in DuPage County, 189 in Elmhurst, 194 in Clarendon Hills, 196 in La Grange Park and suburban Cook County, 200 in Western Springs and 203 in La Grange.

As of Sunday, Illinois' coronavirus case count increased to 2,897,174, a 4.5 percent increase from the previous week, according to the state Department of Public Health. The number of confirmed deaths so far is 30,688.

Nationally, 74 million cases of the coronavirus have been reported, a 5.5 percent increase from the previous week, according to the Centers for Disease Control. A total of 879,971 people have died from the virus in the United States.