Dupage Policy Journal

As of September 23, there have been 704 Will County residents in their seventies who have tested positive for COVID-19, according to numbers being reported to the Illinois Department of Public Health.

There have been 16,944 residents in their seventies in the county who had been tested, meaning that four percent of those tested have the coronavirus. Through September 23, there have been 13,612 confirmed COVID-19 cases and 374 deaths from the coronavirus in Will County.

Illinois gathers all of its COVID-19 data from across the state electronically. The reported cases and deaths will fluctuate as additional info is gathered. Chicago was home to one of the first known cases of COVID-19 in the US, as well as it's transmission.

Date	Total Tested	Total Positive	Positive %
September 23	204,200	13,612	6.7
September 22	202,873	13,539	6.7
September 21	201,734	13,451	6.7
September 20	200,258	13,416	6.7
September 19	198,653	13,330	6.7
September 18	196,033	13,211	6.7
September 17	194,225	13,130	6.8
September 16	192,536	13,044	6.8
September 15	190,975	12,955	6.8
September 14	189,575	12,888	6.8