The unemployment rate in the Chicago metropolitan area continued to surge in June, reaching 11.3 percent, up from 6.9 percent a year earlier and the h...
Crain's Chicago Business | Moneè Fields-White | Posted 02.06.2009 | Chicago
Companies throughout the Chicago area reduced their payrolls in November by the most jobs in more than four years, government figures released Tuesday...
Crain's Chicago Business | Lorene Yue | Posted 12.27.2008 | Chicago
The jobless rate for metropolitan Chicago rose in October to 6.9%, according to figures released Wednesday. The Illinois Department of Employment Sec...
Crain's Chicago Business | Lorene Yue | Posted 11.23.2008 | Chicago
The Chicago-area jobless rate fell in September, remaining above the national average but below statewide levels. The September unemployment rate for...
Chicago Sun-Times | Fran Spielman | Posted 11.21.2008 | Chicago
Ignoring sniping from all sides, Mayor Daley said today he's not about to soften the cuts in his tough-times 2009 budget because there's no money to p...
Crain's Chicago Business | Monée Fields-White | Posted 11.14.2008 | Chicago
(Crain's) -- The Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum has cut its staff by about 18% amid the faltering economy. The reductions, which were across the board...
ABC 7 | Posted 11.07.2008 | Chicago
CHICAGO (WLS) -- There will be more layoffs at an auto plant on Chicago's Far South Side. Ford plans to cut nearly 800 jobs at its factory at 103rd an...
Chicago Sun-Times | Francine Knowles | Posted 09.21.2008 | Chicago
The unemployment rate in the Chicago metropolitan area jumped to 7.5 percent in July from 5.4 percent a year earlier, and the area lost 2,700 jobs, th...
Chicago Sun-Times | Francine Knowles | Posted 08.23.2009 | Chicago