Elmhurst Sees Big Rise In Virus Cases: County

ELMHURST, IL — Elmhurst saw a big increase in coronavirus cases last week, following a few weeks of declines, according to the DuPage County Health Department.

As of Sunday, the city had seen 8,826 cases since the beginning of the pandemic, up 528 from a week before. That's higher than the previous week's 359. The city hit a weekly record of 599 earlier this month. In the pandemic's surge in late 2020, weekly coronavirus cases reached a high of 248 that November.

The number of coronavirus-related deaths in Elmhurst increased by one in the last week, to 79. The mortality rate among those locally with the coronavirus is 1 percent.

Here is how Elmhurst's coronavirus cases have grown over time:

As of Sunday, Elmhurst had 189 coronavirus cases per thousand people since the pandemic's beginning. The figure compares to 159 in Darien, 173 in Hinsdale, 179 in DuPage County, 194 in Clarendon Hills, 196 in La Grange Park and suburban Cook County, 200 in Western Springs and 203 in La Grange.

As of Sunday, Illinois' coronavirus case count increased to 2,897,174, a 4.5 percent increase from the previous week, according to the state Department of Public Health. The number of confirmed deaths so far is 30,688.

Nationally, 74 million cases of the coronavirus have been reported, a 5.5 percent increase from the previous week, according to the Centers for Disease Control. A total of 879,971 people have died from the virus in the United States.