Special Report
This Is the County in the Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN-WI Metro Area With the Least COVID-19
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To date, 82,217,041 Americans are confirmed to have been infected with COVID-19 — and over 1 million have died as a result. On a per capita basis, the U.S. has one of the highest known infections rates in the world.
In the Chicago-Naperville-Elgin metropolitan area, which covers parts of Illinois, Indiana, and Wisconsin, a total of 2,260,897 COVID-19 cases have been reported to date. Adjusted for population, there have been 23,708 reported infections for every 100,000 people in the area — below the national rate of 25,130 cases per 100,000 people.
The lower than average per capita COVID-19 infection rate across Chicago-Naperville-Elgin is being driven by one area in particular.
The broader Chicago metro area comprises 14 counties or county equivalents — and of them, Newton County in Indiana has the fewest COVID-19 cases per capita. So far, there have been a total of 2,598 confirmed infections in Newton County, or 18,533 for every 100,000 people.
Though Newton County has the lowest per capita infection rate in the Chicago metro area, its per capita fatality rate is disproportionately high.
There have been a total of 485 coronavirus-related deaths for every 100,000 people in Newton County, above the 256 COVID-19 deaths per 100,000 across the entire Chicago-Naperville-Elgin metro area.
All COVID-19 data used in this story are current as of May 23, 2022.
Rank | Geography | COVID cases per 100,000 people | Total cases | Deaths per 100,000 people | Total deaths |
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1 | Newton County, IN | 18,533 | 2,598 | 485 | 68 |
2 | Lake County, IN | 22,427 | 109,184 | 378 | 1,838 |
3 | Lake County, IL | 22,993 | 161,783 | 199 | 1,399 |
4 | Porter County, IN | 23,112 | 38,838 | 336 | 564 |
5 | Cook County, IL | 23,163 | 1,209,972 | 276 | 14,397 |
6 | DeKalb County, IL | 23,903 | 24,907 | 191 | 199 |
7 | DuPage County, IL | 24,463 | 227,929 | 185 | 1,724 |
8 | Will County, IL | 24,902 | 171,497 | 224 | 1,542 |
9 | Kane County, IL | 25,085 | 133,162 | 212 | 1,128 |
10 | Grundy County, IL | 25,964 | 13,114 | 269 | 136 |
11 | McHenry County, IL | 26,012 | 80,063 | 158 | 485 |
12 | Kendall County, IL | 26,479 | 33,000 | 130 | 162 |
13 | Kenosha County, WI | 27,124 | 45,658 | 375 | 631 |
14 | Jasper County, IN | 27,481 | 9,192 | 445 | 149 |
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