CHICAGO (AP) -- Illinois' unemployment rate rose to 10.3 percent in June. That's the highest rate since 1983, and it's up from 10.1 percent in May. ...
Crain's Chicago Business | Posted 07.19.2009 | Chicago
Exelon Corp. plans to cut about 500 jobs and is reworking the duties of several executives, the company said Thursday....
AP | Posted 06.12.2009 | Chicago
MAYWOOD, Ill. (AP) -- Loyola University Health System says it's eliminating 443 positions in the west Chicago suburb of Maywood because an increasing ...
Associated Press | Posted 05.17.2009 | Chicago
CHICAGO (AP) -- Illinois' unemployment rate hit 9.1 percent in March, the highest it's been in almost 24 years. That compares to 8.6 percent last mon...
Chicago Tribune | Becky Yerak | Posted 05.07.2009 | Chicago
More than 20 companies alerted the state in March that they plan plant closure or "mass" layoffs, putting nearly 2,500 workers out of work....
Associated Press | Posted 03.30.2009 | Chicago
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) -- As jobless rates climb toward record highs, Illinois residents looking for work will see an extra $25 a week in unemployment...
Crain's Chicago Business | Paul Merrion | Posted 03.09.2009 | Chicago
Illinois could lose another 147,200 jobs this year on top of the 100,700 jobs it lost in 2008, according to a new study released Friday. [...] Illinoi...
Crain's Chicago Business | Monée Fields-White | Posted 01.18.2009 | Chicago
Illinois companies cut their payrolls in November by the greatest number of jobs in about seven years, while unemployment stayed at a 15-year high, go...
Chicago Tribune | James P. Miller | Posted 10.19.2008 | Chicago
Unemployment in Illinois continued to track well above the national average in August, as the number of job-seekers climbed and employers continued to...
AP | Posted 08.16.2009 | Chicago