La Grange Virus Caseload About Same: County

LA GRANGE, IL – La Grange's coronavirus caseload is barely changing, according to the Cook County Public Health Department.

As of Sunday, the village had 3,635 cases since the pandemic's beginning, up 27 from a week earlier. The previous week, the village saw 20 new cases. A month ago, the community experienced just two new cases.

According to the Cook County Medical Examiner's Office, the number of recorded coronavirus-related deaths in La Grange stayed the same in the last week, at 44. The latest deaths were Feb. 14, Jan. 27, Jan. 19, Jan. 16, Nov. 30 and Nov. 26, according to the medical examiner.

Effective April 1, the Cook County Medical Examiner's Office no longer is counting coronavirus deaths in each town.

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

As of Sunday, La Grange had 221 coronavirus cases per thousand people since the pandemic's beginning, the worst among its surveyed neighbors. The figure compares to 178 in Darien, 198 in Hinsdale, 200 in DuPage County, 206 in Elmhurst, 209 in suburban Cook County, 212 in La Grange Park, 216 in Clarendon Hills and 217 in Western Springs.

As of Sunday, Illinois' coronavirus case count increased to 3,080,436, a hike of less than 0.1 percent, according to the state Department of Public Health. The number of confirmed deaths so far is 33,465.

Nationally, 80.2 million cases of the coronavirus have been reported, an increase of 0.1 percent in the last week, according to the Centers for Disease Control. A total of 982,663 people have died from the virus in the United States.