Western Springs Virus Caseload About Same: County

WESTERN SPRINGS, IL – Western Springs coronavirus caseload is barely changing, according to the Cook County Public Health Department.

As of Sunday, the village had experienced 2,903 coronavirus cases since the beginning of the pandemic, with 19 new cases in the last week. The previous week, the village saw 16 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.

Effective April 1, the Cook County Medical Examiner’s Office no longer is counting coronavirus deaths in each town.

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

As of Sunday, Western Springs had 217 coronavirus cases per thousand people since the pandemic's beginning. The figure compares to 178 in Darien, 198 in Hinsdale, 200 in DuPage County, 206 in Elmhurst, 209 in suburban Cook County, 212 in La Grange Park, 216 in Clarendon Hills and 221 in La Grange.

As of Sunday, Illinois' coronavirus case count increased to 3,080,436, a hike of less than 0.1 percent, according to the state Department of Public Health. The number of confirmed deaths so far is 33,465.

Nationally, 80.2 million cases of the coronavirus have been reported, an increase of 0.1 percent in the last week, according to the Centers for Disease Control. A total of 982,663 people have died from the virus in the United States.