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The Illinois Department of Natural Resources is directing the state's largest fish kill Wednesday on a nearly six-mile stretch of the Chicago Sanitary & Ship Canal. Dumping the fish toxin rotenone into the water is the agency's latest attempt to stop...
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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 Illinois� unemployment rate stayed even in August, dipping 0.4 point to 10 percent, a state report said today...Payroll employment declined by 19,200 jobs in August, for a total of 5.65 million statewide, staying relatively the same...
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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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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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A Chicago-area resident is the first person in Illinois to die of swine flu. Illinois Department of Public Health director, Dr. Damon Arnold, said Monday that the person who died had underlying medical conditions. Arnold says the victim's family has requested...
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Sunday, Illinois reported 96 possible cases of H1N1 flu (Swine Flu) and three confirmed cases, according to the Illinois Department of Public Health's Web site. A confirmed case is defined as a person with an acute febrile respiratory illness with laboratory...
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Chicago swine flu cases 'throughout the city' Chicago Public Health Commissioner Terry Mason gave little new information on the spread of the disease, instead focusing on how people can stay healthy. A map given distributed at the news conference indicatedthere...
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