Another Drop In Western Springs Virus Cases: County

WESTERN SPRINGS, IL – For the second week in a row, Western Springs has seen a drop in the number of new weekly coronavirus cases, according to the Cook County Public Health Department.

As of Sunday, the village saw 3,204 coronavirus cases since the beginning of the pandemic, with 37 new cases in the last week. The previous week, the village saw 51 cases.

For four weeks last June and July, the village's coronavirus case count did not budge.

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 six.

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

As of Sunday, Western Springs had 240 coronavirus cases per thousand people since the pandemic's beginning. The figure compares with 200 in Darien, 208 in Hinsdale, 220 in DuPage County, 226 in suburban Cook County, 227 in Elmhurst, 242 in Clarendon Hills, 243 in La Grange Park and 248 in La Grange.

As of Sunday, Illinois' coronavirus case count increased to 3,286,377, a hike of 1.1 percent, according to the state Department of Public Health. The number of confirmed deaths so far is 33,806.

Nationally, 83.7 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 1,001,313 people have died from the virus in the United States.