Western Springs Sees Another Hike In Virus Cases: County

WESTERN SPRINGS, IL – Western Springs experienced yet another hike in weekly coronavirus cases, according to the Cook County Public Health Department.

As of Sunday, the village had experienced 2,974 coronavirus cases since the beginning of the pandemic, with 43 new cases in the last week. The previous week, the village saw 28 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 has 223 coronavirus cases per thousand people since the pandemic's beginning. The figure compares to 182 in Darien, 192 in Hinsdale, 203 in DuPage County, 210 in Elmhurst, 211 in suburban Cook County, 215 in La Grange Park, 219 in Clarendon Hills and 227 in La Grange.

As of Sunday, Illinois' coronavirus case count increased to 3,114,036, a hike of 0.6 percent, according to the state Department of Public Health. The number of confirmed deaths so far is 33,568.

Nationally, 80.8 million cases of the coronavirus have been reported, an increase of 0.4 percent in the last week, according to the Centers for Disease Control. A total of 988,589 people have died from the virus in the United States.