La Grange Sees Over 100 New Virus Cases: County

LA GRANGE, IL – La Grange is still experiencing its biggest coronavirus caseloads since January, according to the Cook County Public Health Department.

As of Sunday, the village had 4,009 cases since the pandemic's beginning, up 101 from a week earlier. The previous week, the village saw 91 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 246 coronavirus cases per thousand people since the pandemic's beginning, the worst among its surveyed neighbors. The figure compares with 197 in Darien, 206 in Hinsdale, 217 in DuPage County, 223 in suburban Cook County, 224 in Elmhurst, 237 in Western Springs, 239 in Clarendon Hills and 240 in La Grange Park.

As of Sunday, Illinois' coronavirus case count increased to 3,249,534, a hike of 1.2 percent, according to the state Department of Public Health. The number of confirmed deaths so far is 33,761.

Nationally, 83.1 million cases of the coronavirus have been reported, an increase of 0.9 percent in the last week, according to the Centers for Disease Control. A total of 999,254 people have died from the virus in the United States.