La Grange Virus Case Rate Increases: County

LA GRANGE, IL – After a drop the previous week, La Grange's coronavirus case rate increased again, according to the Cook County Public Health Department.

As of Sunday, the village had 3,698 cases since the pandemic's beginning, up 43 from a week earlier. The previous week, the village saw 20 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 227 coronavirus cases per thousand people since the pandemic's beginning, the worse among its surveyed neighbors. The figure compares to 182 in Darien, 192 in Hinsdale, 203 in DuPage County, 210 in Elmhurst, 211 in suburban Cook County, 215 in La Grange Park, 219 in Clarendon Hills and 223 in Western Springs.

As of Sunday, Illinois' coronavirus case count increased to 3,114,036, a hike of 0.6 percent, according to the state Department of Public Health. The number of confirmed deaths so far is 33,568.

Nationally, 80.8 million cases of the coronavirus have been reported, an increase of 0.4 percent in the last week, according to the Centers for Disease Control. A total of 988,589 people have died from the virus in the United States.