Bigger Virus Caseload In Western Springs: County

WESTERN SPRINGS, IL – Western Springs experienced the most new coronavirus cases in a week since January, according to the Cook County Public Health Department.

As of Sunday, the village saw 3,116 coronavirus cases since the beginning of the pandemic, with 60 new cases in the last week. The previous week, the village saw 48 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 233 coronavirus cases per thousand people since the pandemic's beginning. 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, 234 in Clarendon Hills, and 239 in La Grange.

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