La Grange Sees Nearly 10% More Virus Cases

LA GRANGE, IL — As of Sunday, La Grange saw a nearly 10 percent increase in coronavirus cases over the previous week, according to the Cook County Public Health Department. The number of cases rose 19 to 226. The previous week saw a hike of 10 cases.

The village experienced no new coronavirus deaths in the last week, with the total remaining at 13, the county medical examiner's figures show.

Here is a look at the growth in La Grange's coronavirus case numbers:

As of Sunday, La Grange had 14.8 coronavirus cases per thousand people, which is higher than most towns in the area. La Grange's rate compares to 6.2 in Western Springs, 6.8 in Darien, 7 in Clarendon Hills, 7.4 in La Grange Park, 8.6 in Elmhurst, 10.5 in DuPage County, 10.9 in Burr Ridge, 12.5 in Hinsdale and 15.2 in suburban Cook County.

As of Sunday, the local hospital, Amita Adventist Medical Center La Grange, had seven patients positive for COVID-19, the illness caused by the coronavirus, spokeswoman Olga Solares said in an email. As of the end of June, 17 people had died at the hospital as the result of the virus, she said.

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As of Sunday, Illinois' coronavirus case count increased to 153,916, up 4.5 percent from a week earlier. The coronavirus has claimed the lives of 7,187 state residents.

Nationally, 3.2 million people have caught the virus and 134,572 have died from it.