Western Springs' Number Of New Virus Cases Falls: County

WESTERN SPRINGS, IL — Western Springs' weekly increase in new coronavirus cases was the smallest since early August, according to the Cook County Public Health Department.

As of Sunday, the village had experienced 1,482 coronavirus cases since the beginning of the pandemic, with 10 new cases in the last week. The week before last, the village saw 23 new cases. For four weeks in June and July, the village's coronavirus case count did not budge.

The number of Western Springs' virus-related deaths stayed the same in the last week, at six. The latest deaths were reported May 31, May 11 and Nov. 21, according to the Cook County Medical Examiner's Office. That's a mortality rate of less than 1 percent. All the local deaths have been those who were 53 or older, according to the county medical examiner.

As of Sunday, Western Springs had 111 coronavirus cases per thousand people since the pandemic's beginning. The figure compares to 90 in Darien, 97 in La Grange Park, 101 in DuPage County, 102 in Hinsdale, 105 in Elmhurst, 110 in Clarendon Hills, 112 in suburban Cook County, 114 in Burr Ridge and 131 in La Grange (including unincorporated La Grange Highlands).

As of Sunday, Illinois' coronavirus case count increased to 1,590,342, up 1.7 percent from a week earlier, according to the state Department of Public Health. The number of confirmed deaths so far is 24,546.

Nationally, 41.9 million cases of the coronavirus have been reported, up 2.5 percent from the week before, according to the Centers for Disease Control. A total of 670,565 people have died from the virus in the United States.