Elmhurst Sees Biggest Virus Hike In 3 Months: County

ELMHURST, IL — Elmhurst saw 34 new coronavirus cases in the last week, the largest weekly increase since early May, according to statistics from the DuPage County Health Department.

As of Sunday, the city had 4,502 cases. The week before last, Elmhurst saw an increase of 20 cases.

As of Sunday, the number of coronavirus-related deaths in Elmhurst stayed the same in the last week, at 68, as it has been for months. The mortality rate among those locally with the coronavirus is 1.5 percent.

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

As of Sunday, Elmhurst had 96.3 coronavirus cases per thousand people since the pandemic's beginning. The figure compares to 83.7 in Darien, 90.2 in La Grange Park, 93.9 in DuPage County, 94.8 in Hinsdale,101.7 in Western Springs, 103.5 in Clarendon Hills, 104.3 in suburban Cook County, 107.1 in Burr Ridge and 123.8 in La Grange (including unincorporated La Grange Highlands).

As of Sunday, Illinois' coronavirus case count increased to 1,436,353, up 1.2 percent from a week earlier, according to the state Department of Public Health. The number of confirmed deaths so far is 23,503.

Nationally, 35.7 million cases of the coronavirus have been reported, up 2.1 percent from the week before, according to the Centers for Disease Control. A total of 614,291 people have died from the virus in the United States.