Glenview's 77 Coronavirus Cases Include Village Employee

CHICAGO — Public health officials released a map showing the locations of all confirmed cases of the new coronavirus in suburban Cook County, as well as additional details about the first 1,346 cases within the jurisdiction of the Cook County Department of Public Health.

As of Monday, Glenview had 77 confirmed cases of COVID-19, the disease caused by the coronavirus, the most of any north suburban municipalities other than Skokie, according to data from their respective health departments. Skokie's health department reported four more cases than Glenview, which has just 75 percent of the population of its neighbor to the southeast.

One village employee in Glenview has tested positive for the coronavirus, according to a village spokesperson. The employee worked inside Village Hall on three unspecified days between March 16 and March 20 and did not have any direct contact with the public. The area where the village staffer worked has been thoroughly cleaned and village hall remains operational.

Among other neighboring towns, Wilmette had 36 confirmed cases, Northbrook had 29, Morton Grove had 14, Wheeling had 13, Niles had seven and Northfield had fewer than five, as of Sunday, according to the health department.

According to the health department data, nearly 60 percent of all detected COVID-19 cases in suburban Cook County have been people between the ages of 40 and 69.

More than 10 percent of COVID-19 cases with known hospitalization status required treatment in intensive care, according to the health department data. About 40 percent have been hospitalized at some point. Hospitalization data was only available for about half of the known case.

Nearly 78 percent of the confirmed cases in suburban Cook County have an unknown origin, according to the health department data. That means over 1,000 such cases were potentially caused by the community spread of the virus.

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As of Monday, 23 group living settings — such as nursing homes and long-term care facilities — had reported one or more confirmed cases the coronavirus and 24 people had died within the jurisdiction of the Cook County Department of Public Health, according to the department's website.

The department's jurisdiction includes all suburban municipalities other than Evanston, Oak Park, Skokie and Stickney Township, which all have their own state-certified health departments. The health department's data does not include cases in those locations, nor does it include those who live in unincorporated areas of the county.

As of Monday afternoon, Evanston reported 71 cases, Oak Park had 26 cases and Skokie had 81 cases and four deaths. The Stickney Public Health District reported a 76-year-old Burbank woman died of the virus last week but did not report a total number of cases. According to its website, the southwest suburban health department does not offer tests for COVID-19.

Find more data and complete map from the Cook County Department of Public Health »