Latest Coronavirus Updates: 85 Combined Confirmed Cases In Palos
PALOS, IL — The new coronavirus outbreak in Illinois and across the country is having vast impacts in Palod, including the closure of several local businesses, the library, park district and schools.
Oak Lawn recorded the second highest number of confirmed cases with 132 reported on April 13. Calumet City now leads the south suburbs with 151 confirmed cases, according to the Cook County Department of Public Health.
Palos Hills has 36 cases, Palos Heights 38 and 11 in Palos Park.
Confirmed cases in nearby towns include 58 in Evergreen Park, 63 in Bridgeview, 41 in Chicago Ridge, 63 in Blue Island, 36 in Alsip and 32 in Crestwood. Don't miss local and statewide news about coronavirus developments and precautions. Sign up for Patch alerts and daily newsletters.
Across Illinois, 74 new deaths from coronavirus were announced, with the Illinois’s death toll now standing at 794. In Cook County, the death toll rose to 581 with an additional 55 coronavirus deaths recorded by the Cook County Medical Examiner.
In suburban Cook County, confirmed cases stand at 5,512, with 281 deaths. Coronavirus has now spread to 84 communal settings, including nursing homes, long-term care facilities and jails.
Since March 31, eleven people died of COVID-19 infections at Palos Community Hospital.
Four residents at Manor Care Palos Heights West, 11860 Southwest Highway and one resident Manor Care Palos Heights East, 7850 W. College Drive, lost their lives to coronavirus, according to medical examiner reports.
Two residents at Lexington of Chicago Ridge Health Network, 10300 Southwest Highway, Chicago Ridge, and a resident at Sunrise of Palos Park died of coronavirus.
At the Bridgeview Health Care Center, 8100 S. Harlem Ave., medical examiner reports indicate four residents died of COVID-19 infections.
On the business front, we've gathered information from local businesses and put together a directory featuring dozens of them.
The owner of a coronavirus-closed salon in Palos Heights is offering help for quarantine hair.
The City of Palos Hills has provided a list of loan services in Illinois to help small businesses weather the COVID-19 shutdown.
Moraine Valley Community College in Palos Hills is thinking positively by rescheduling canceled shows and performances starting in August.
Former Gov. Rod Blagojevich, newly sprung from a federal prison in Colorado after serving eight years of a 14-year sentence on corruption charges, appeared in a tutorial video showing people how to make a face mask. His source of material: "the old dress shirts you haven't worn in eight years for whatever reason."
The Cook County Medical Examiner opened a temporary "surge" morgue in a 66,000-square-foot warehouse for coronavirus fatalities.
A convicted child sex predator became the second Cook County Jail detainee to die of a COVID-19 infection.
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