Western Springs Sees Big Drop In Virus Cases: County

WESTERN SPRINGS, IL — Western Springs' coronavirus caseload remains high, but the village saw a big drop in the last week, according to the Cook County Public Health Department.

As of Sunday, the village had experienced 2,526 coronavirus cases since the beginning of the pandemic, with 84 new cases in the last week. The previous two weeks were 128 and 188, respectively.

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 189 coronavirus cases per thousand people since the pandemic's beginning. The figure compares to 145 in Darien, 162 in Hinsdale, 169 in DuPage County, 177 in Clarendon Hills, 178 in Elmhurst, 186 in La Grange Park, 188 in suburban Cook County and 194 in La Grange.

As of Sunday, Illinois' coronavirus case count increased to 2,773,362, an 7.1 percent increase from the previous week, according to the state Department of Public Health. The number of confirmed deaths so far is 29,845.

Nationally, 70.2 million cases of the coronavirus have been reported, a 7.1 percent increase from the previous week, according to the Centers for Disease Control. A total of 862,494 people have died from the virus in the United States.