La Grange Sees Most Virus Cases Since January: County

LA GRANGE, IL – La Grange last week experienced the most new coronavirus cases since January, according to the Cook County Public Health Department.

As of Sunday, the village had 3,817 cases since the pandemic's beginning, up 70 from a week earlier. The previous week, the village saw 49 new cases.

On April 1, the Cook County Medical Examiner's Office stopped counting the number of coronavirus deaths by municipality. At last count, the number was 44.

Here's a look at the number of accumulated cases since the beginning of the crisis:

As of Sunday, La Grange had 234 coronavirus cases per thousand people since the pandemic's beginning, the worst among its surveyed neighbors. The figure compares to 193 in Hinsdale, 209 in DuPage County, 216 in Elmhurst and suburban Cook County, 225 in La Grange Park, and 229 in Clarendon Hills and Western Springs.

As of Sunday, Illinois' coronavirus case count increased to 3,169,315, a hike of 1 percent, according to the state Department of Public Health. The number of confirmed deaths so far is 33,660.

Nationally, 81.7 million cases of the coronavirus have been reported, an increase of 0.7 percent in the last week, according to the Centers for Disease Control. A total of 995,823 people have died from the virus in the United States.