As of 6 p.m. on April 8, 37 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 261.17 cases per 100,000.

Other nearby towns, listed below in order of number of cases 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, 100 cases or 176.5 per 100,000 people
  • Melrose Park, 54 cases or 212.51 per 100,000 people
  • Broadview, 22 cases or 277.36 per 100,000 people
  • Maywood: 65 cases or 269.82 per 100,000 people
  • Bellwood, 92 cases or 482.41 per 100,000 people