There was a significant jump in the number of new COVID-19 cases today in Evanston, Suburban Cook County, Chicago, and the State, compared to the average number of new cases in the prior four days. On a Statewide basis there were 12,542 new cases today, compared to an average of 7,229 in the prior four […]

The accompanying charts show that the seven-day averages of new cases in Evanston, Suburban Cook County, Chicago, and Illinois are all continuing to come down. In addition, in the last week, the number of hospitalizations due to COVID-19 seem to have peaked at 6,171 and slowly declined to 5,849 today. Dr. Ngozi Ezike, Director of […]