Cases Top 100, Testing Nearby: Orland Park Coronavirus Updates

ORLAND PARK, IL — As of April 15, Orland Park has 120 confirmed cases of the new coronavirus, according to a map published by the Cook County Department of Public Health. The map now also shows how many cases each town has per 100,000 residents rather than the total number of confirmed cases.

Nearby, Tinley Park has 81 confirmed cases and Oak Forest has 49. So far, statewide there are more than 23,000 total confirmed cases and more than 800 people in Illinois have died of the coronavirus.

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Coronavirus testing is now available in the south suburbs, with the nearest testing location to Orland Park now open to anyone eligible at the vehicle emissions test site near 159th and Pulaski in Markham. Anyone older 65 and anyone older than 17 with a pre-existing condition are eligible, as well as any first responder or hospital worker who is showing symptoms.

Antibody testing remains available at ARCpoint Labs here in Orland Park.

Just this week, Orland Park Bakery confirmed they will be closing temporarily and indefinitely after one of their employees had tested positive for the coronavirus over the weekend.

Elsewhere on the local business front, several Orland Park-based business owners have shared their information on when they are open and what they are offering on the Orland Park Patch Local Business Guide.

The Darvin Furniture store in Orland Park went above and beyond their call in offering 13 mattresses at a highly discounted price to help move families affected by domestic violence out of the Crisis Center for South Suburbia's emergency shelter and into housing that's more suitable for social distancing amid the pandemic.

Good deeds are continuing to come in amid this crisis. Locally, an Orland Hills girl scout troop donated several cookie boxes to workers at Palos and Loyola hospitals. Managers at staff at all Cooper's Hawk restaurants, of which the very first was right here in Orland Park, have put together an effort to feed their employees two meals a day.

Michael Arundel, an Orland Park resident, college student at the University of Alabama and recent Sandburg High School alum, is making an impact on a national scale. His newly formed non-profit, "Leave It To Us," has mobilized volunteers across the country to shop for senior citizens during the pandemic.