La Grange Virus Caseload Still High: County

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

As of Sunday, the village had 3,908 cases since the pandemic's beginning, up 91 from a week earlier. The previous week, the village saw 70 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 239 coronavirus cases per thousand people since the pandemic's beginning, the worst among its surveyed neighbors. The figure compares to 193 in Darien 203 in Hinsdale, 213 in DuPage County, 220 in Elmhurst and suburban Cook County, 232 in La Grange Park, 233 in Western Springs and 234 in Clarendon Hills.

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.