Drop In Western Springs Virus Cases: County

WESTERN SPRINGS, IL — Western Springs saw a decrease in its coronavirus case rate, according to the Cook County Public Health Department.

As of Sunday, the village had experienced 2,808 coronavirus cases since the beginning of the pandemic, with 34 new cases in the last week, the lowest weekly total since November. The previous week, the village saw 64 cases.

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

The number of Western Springs' virus-related deaths stayed the same in the last week, at six. The latest deaths were reported May 31 and May 11, according to the Cook County Medical Examiner's Office. That's a mortality rate of less than 1 percent. All the local deaths have been those who were 53 or older, according to the county medical examiner.

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

As of Sunday, Western Springs had 210 coronavirus cases per thousand people since the pandemic's beginning. The figure compares to 168 in Darien, 182 in Hinsdale, 190 in DuPage County, 198 in Elmhurst, 203 in suburban Cook County, 205 in Clarendon Hills, 206 in La Grange Park and 213 in La Grange.

As of Sunday, Illinois' coronavirus case count increased to 3,013,709, a 0.9 percent increase from the previous week, according to the state Department of Public Health. The number of confirmed deaths so far is 32,299.

Nationally, 78.3 million cases of the coronavirus have been reported, a 1 percent increase from the previous week, according to the Centers for Disease Control. A total of 930,811 people have died from the virus in the United States.