Western Springs Weekly Virus Caseload Drops: County

WESTERN SPRINGS, IL – Western Springs saw a dip in new coronavirus cases last week, according to the Cook County Public Health Department.

As of Sunday, the village saw 3,167 coronavirus cases since the beginning of the pandemic, with 51 new cases in the last week. The previous week, the village saw 60 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 had 237 coronavirus cases per thousand people since the pandemic's beginning, better than its neighbors. The figure compares with 197 in Darien, 206 in Hinsdale, 217 in DuPage County, 223 in suburban Cook County, 224 in Elmhurst, 239 in Clarendon Hills, 240 in La Grange Park and 246 in La Grange.

As of Sunday, Illinois' coronavirus case count increased to 3,249,534, a hike of 1.2 percent, according to the state Department of Public Health. The number of confirmed deaths so far is 33,761.

Nationally, 83.1 million cases of the coronavirus have been reported, an increase of 0.9 percent in the last week, according to the Centers for Disease Control. A total of 999,254 people have died from the virus in the United States.