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. ...
AP | Posted 07.19.2009 | Chicago
CHICAGO (AP) -- Illinois' unemployment rate reached 10.1 percent in May, the highest it's been in 25 years. The Illinois Department of Employment Sec...
AP | Posted 06.21.2009 | Chicago
CHICAGO (AP) -- Illinois' unemployment rate jumped to 9.4 percent in April as companies continued to shed thousands of jobs. The number of jobless in...
AP | Posted 06.15.2009 | Chicago
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) -- State economic officials say the film industry spent $141 million and created nearly 5,400 jobs in Illinois last year. Depa...
AP | Posted 05.21.2009 | Chicago
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) -- The federal government is giving Illinois an additional $100 million for its unemployment insurance program. Illinois gets ...
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...
Associated Press | Posted 04.24.2009 | Chicago
Illinois' unemployment rate jumped to 8.6 percent last month, the highest it's been since December 1991. February's rate is up from 7.8 percent in Ja...
Associated Press | Posted 04.11.2009 | Chicago
Illinois' unemployment rate jumped to 7.9 percent in January, the highest it's been since April 1993. That tops December's 7.2 percent mark and repre...
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...
Chicago Sun-Times | Francine Knowles | Posted 03.01.2009 | Chicago
The jobless rate increased in all 12 metropolitan areas in Illinois in December from a year earlier, the 20th straight month that has occurred, the Il...
Crain's Chicago Business | Monée Fields-White | Posted 02.23.2009 | Chicago
Illinois companies cut their payrolls for a seventh straight month and state unemployment jumped to 15-year high in December, government figures show....
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...
AP | Posted 12.21.2008 | Chicago
The unemployment rate in Illinois rose to 7.3 percent in October, up from 6.9 percent the month before. It's the fifth consecutive month of job loss ...
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