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The Chicago�s area�s unemployment rate rose in September to 10.1 percent, state officials said today. The Illinois Department of Employment Security said the region�s jobless rate increased from 9.6 percent in August and from 6.2 percent in September...
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The Illinois Department of Employment Security released new statewide figures today. The agency says the three-month unemployment average increased 0.1 percent to 10.3 percent, its highest level since December 1983. The state�s unemployment rate at this...
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Bucking the national trend, the unemployment rate in Kane County and across Illinois declined in August. According to statistics released Thursday by the Illinois Department of Employment Security, the unadjusted unemployment rate in the county was 9.7...
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GUY sguy@suntimes.com The Chicago area's unemployment rate in July stood at 10.7 percent, up from 6.9 percent a year ago, but lower than June's 11.3 percent rate, according to the latest data released Thursday. Unemployment in July was higher than year-ago...
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DeKalb County's unemployment rate hit 10.6 percent in May, according to data released Thursday by the Illinois Department of Employment Security. This continues a trend started in April, when unemployment in the county hit a 26-year high...That month,...
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Unemployment surged in May among residents of Chicago's north, northwest and western suburbs. The jobless rates for all but one suburb served by Pioneer Press with more than 25,000 residents increased by as much as 1 percent from April's rate, according...
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The Illinois unemployment rate continued to rise in April, climbing to 9.4 percent from 6.2 percent a year earlier and from a revised 9 percent in March, according to the Illinois Department of Employment Security...Illinois lost 255,400 jobs over the...
There may be positive signs in the latest report of jobless residents in Chicago's north, northwest and western suburbs. The unemployment rate for suburbs served by Pioneer Press with more than 25,000 residents decreased, stayed flat, slowed or grew by...
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The jobless rate in Illinois surged by half a percentage point in March, to 9.1 percent -- marking the state's highest unemployment level since November 1985 -- officials disclosed Thursday. Illinois employers cut 39,300 workers last month, the Illinois...
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Unemployment in Kankakee County hit 12 percent in February, according to data released Tuesday by the Illinois Department of Employment Security...In fact, umemployment in all 12 Illinois metropolitan areas were above previous-year levels. Rockford reported...
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