As of April 8, 33 Forest Park residents have been diagnosed with COVID-19, according to a Cook County Health Department website, ccdphcd.shinyapps.io/covid19/. This number represents a rate of 232.94 cases per 100,000.
Other nearby towns, listed below by number per 100,000 people, were reported with the following numbers of COVID-19 cases:
- River Forest, 9 cases or 80.56 per 100,000 people
- Berwyn, 88 cases or 155.32 per 100,000 people
- Melrose Park, 47 cases or 184.96 per 100,000 people
- Maywood: 60 cases or 249.07 per 100,000 people
- Broadview, 22 cases or 277.36 per 100,000 people
- Bellwood, 89 cases or 466.68 per 100,000 people