Hinsdale Sees Most Virus Cases In Months: Agencies

HINSDALE, IL – Hinsdale and Clarendon Hills are seeing the most new coronavirus cases in months, according to county agencies.

As of Sunday, Hinsdale had 3,580 coronavirus cases since the start of the pandemic, up 82 in the last week. The previous week, the village recorded 65 new cases.

Meanwhile, Clarendon Hills reached 2,047 coronavirus cases, up 44 in the last week. The week before, the village experienced 36 cases.

Hinsdale's coronavirus deaths increased by one in the last week, with the total at 66 since the pandemic's beginning, according to county agencies. Clarendon Hills' number of deaths stayed the same in the last week, at 18.

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

As of Sunday, Hinsdale had 203 coronavirus cases per thousand people since the pandemic's beginning. The figure compares to 193 in Darien, 213 in DuPage County, 220 in Elmhurst and suburban Cook County, 232 in La Grange Park, 233 in Western Springs, 234 in Clarendon Hills, and 239 in La Grange.

As of Sunday, Illinois' coronavirus case count increased to 3,209,341, a hike of 1.3 percent, according to the state Department of Public Health. The number of confirmed deaths so far is 33,705.

Nationally, 82.3 million cases of the coronavirus have been reported, an increase of 0.8 percent in the last week, according to the Centers for Disease Control. A total of 997,003 people have died from the virus in the United States.