Steady Hike In Western Springs Virus Cases: County

WESTERN SPRINGS, IL – Western Springs is seeing small but steady increases in the number of coronavirus cases, according to the Cook County Public Health Department.

As of Sunday, the village had experienced 2,884 coronavirus cases since the beginning of the pandemic, with 16 new cases in the last week. The previous week, the village saw 15 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 216 coronavirus cases per thousand people since the pandemic's beginning. The figure compares to 178 in Darien, 198 in Hinsdale, 199 in DuPage County, 205 in Elmhurst, 208 in suburban Cook County, 211 in La Grange Park, 215 in Clarendon Hills and 221 in La Grange.

As of Sunday, Illinois' coronavirus case count increased to 3,069,050, according to the state Department of Public Health. The number of confirmed deaths so far is 33,394.

Nationally, 80 million cases of the coronavirus have been reported, according to the Centers for Disease Control. A total of 978,852 people have died from the virus in the United States.