Western Springs Sees Slight Drop In Virus Cases: County

WESTERN SPRINGS, IL — Western Springs saw a slight drop in coronavirus cases in the last week, according to the Cook County Public Health Department.

As of Sunday, the village had experienced 1,636 coronavirus cases since the beginning of the pandemic, with 26 new cases in the last week. The week before last, the village saw 28 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 and May 11, 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.

The number of those who have recovered is unavailable.

Here's a look at the number of accumulated cases since the beginning of the crisis:

As of Sunday, Western Springs had 122 coronavirus cases per thousand people since the pandemic's beginning. The figure compares to 97 in Darien, 110 in Hinsdale and DuPage County, 113 in Elmhurst and La Grange Park, 119 in Clarendon Hills, 120 in La Grange, 122 in suburban Cook County, and 133 in Burr Ridge.

As of Sunday, Illinois' coronavirus case count increased to 1,735,586, a 1.3 percent increase from the previous week, according to the state Department of Public Health. The number of confirmed deaths so far is 26,077.

Nationally, 46.9 million cases of the coronavirus have been reported, a 1.1 percent increase from the previous week, according to the Centers for Disease Control. A total of 759,552 people have died from the virus in the United States.