Long Line Of Mask-Wearing Burr Ridge Residents: Mayor

BURR RIDGE, IL — Burr Ridge Mayor Gary Grasso said in a statement last week that it appears the pandemic is not putting stress on the region's health care systems.

New cases in DuPage County, he said, are flattening, though cases among those 20 to 29 are up by 200 percent in the last month.

"If there is good news, it is that hospitalizations are not spiking while deaths are trending down again — but remember, these two stats always lag behind new cases and thus they could still spike," Grass said in his regular statement on the pandemic.

He said he stopped by the mobile motor vehicle service at Village Hall last week.

"There was a long-line of mask-wearing residents — everyone I saw had a mask! All age groups," Grasso said. "You couldn't see it under my mask, but I was smiling."

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As of Sunday, Burr Ridge saw a 5 percent increase in its coronavirus caseload from a week earlier, according to county health authorities. The cases number 191, up nine from a week before.

As of Sunday, Burr Ridge had 17.8 coronavirus cases per thousand people. The figure compares to 10 in Darien, 10.7 in Western Springs, 10.9 in La Grange Park, 12.5 in Elmhurst, 12.8 in Clarendon Hills, 14 in DuPage County, 15.5 in Hinsdale, 18.6 in suburban Cook County and 21.9 in La Grange.

As of Sunday, Illinois' coronavirus case count increased to 206,081, up 6 percent from a week earlier. The coronavirus has claimed the lives of 7,744 state residents.

Nationally, 5.3 million people have caught the virus, up 7 percent from the week before. A total of 168,696 people have died from the virus in the United States.