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Sunday, July 27, 2025

221 Kankakee County residents in their fifties test positive for COVID-19

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As of July 16, there have been 221 Kankakee County residents in their fifties who have tested positive for COVID-19, according to numbers being reported to the Illinois Department of Public Health.

There have been 3,689 residents in their fifties in the county who had been tested, meaning that six percent of those tested have the coronavirus. Through July 16, there have been 1,472 confirmed COVID-19 cases and 66 deaths from the coronavirus in Kankakee 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.

Test results for the past 10 days in Kankakee County
DateTotal TestedTotal PositivePositive %
July 1622,0691,4726.7
July 1521,4041,4546.8
July 1420,9881,4436.9
July 1320,6121,4397.0
July 1220,2411,4317.1
July 1119,6691,4147.2
July 1019,3241,4017.3
July 918,6271,3447.2
July 818,1571,3357.4
July 717,8931,3127.3

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