Western Springs Virus Cases Stay Low: County

WESTERN SPRINGS, IL – Western Springs' coronavirus cases stayed about the same in the last week, according to the Cook County Public Health Department.

As of Sunday, the village had experienced 2,842 coronavirus cases since the beginning of the pandemic, with eight new cases in the last week. The previous week, the village saw four 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 213 coronavirus cases per thousand people since the pandemic's beginning. The figure compares to 172 in Darien, 183 in Hinsdale, 193 in DuPage County, 201 in Elmhurst, 206 in suburban Cook County, 209 in La Grange Park, 210 in Clarendon Hills and 218 in La Grange.

As of Sunday, Illinois' coronavirus case count increased to 3,0045,718, a 0.2 percent increase from the previous week, according to the state Department of Public Health. The number of confirmed deaths so far is 33,075.

Nationally, 79.3 million cases of the coronavirus have been reported, a 1.5 percent increase from the previous week, according to the Centers for Disease Control. A total of 964,774 people have died from the virus in the United States.