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Illinois Unemployment

Dan Seals, Ann Williams And Jacob Meister Have A Tip For Dan Hynes -- "It's Jobs"

David Ormsby | Posted 11.23.2009 | Chicago

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A small but growing circle of Illinois candidates grasps that jobs -- not our famed corruption scandals or income tax plans -- are the key issue to win the 2010 elections here.

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Unemployment On Chicago's South Side Trails Only Detroit Nationally

Chicago Reporter | Alden Loury | Posted 11.19.2009 | Chicago

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An analysis of the U.S. Census Bureau's 2008 American Community Survey shows that the collective unemployment rate for four Chicago community areas ra...

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State Unemployment Rate Reaches 11 Percent

AP | Posted 11.19.2009 | Chicago

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CHICAGO — Illinois' unemployment rate continued to climb last month, rising to its highest level in more than a quarter century, officials repor...

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Unemployment Rises To 10.3 Percent

AP | Posted 08.16.2009 | Chicago

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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. ...

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Illinois Unemployment At 10.1 Percent, Highest In 25 Years

AP | Posted 07.19.2009 | Chicago

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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...

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Illinois Unemployment Rate Reaches 9.4%

AP | Posted 06.21.2009 | Chicago

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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...

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Film Industry Generated $141 Million, 5,400 Jobs For Illinois In 2008: State

AP | Posted 06.15.2009 | Chicago

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SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) -- State economic officials say the film industry spent $141 million and created nearly 5,400 jobs in Illinois last year. Depa...

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State Getting Another $100 Million For Unemployment Insurance

AP | Posted 05.21.2009 | Chicago

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SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) -- The federal government is giving Illinois an additional $100 million for its unemployment insurance program. Illinois gets ...

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State Jobless Rate Hits 9.1 Percent, Highest In 23 Years

Associated Press | Posted 05.17.2009 | Chicago

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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...

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State Unemployment Rate Jumps To 8.6 Percent

Associated Press | Posted 04.24.2009 | Chicago

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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...

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Illinois Unemployment Rate Hits 7.9%, Highest Since 1993

Associated Press | Posted 04.11.2009 | Chicago

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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...

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Unemployment Money To Increase For Illinois' Jobless

Associated Press | Posted 03.30.2009 | Chicago

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SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) -- As jobless rates climb toward record highs, Illinois residents looking for work will see an extra $25 a week in unemployment...

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State Could Lose Nearly 150,000 Jobs This Year: Study

Crain's Chicago Business | Paul Merrion | Posted 03.09.2009 | Chicago

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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...

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Unemployment Rises Across Illinois

Chicago Sun-Times | Francine Knowles | Posted 03.01.2009 | Chicago

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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...

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Illinois Unemployment Rate At 15-Year-High, Tops National Average

Crain's Chicago Business | Monée Fields-White | Posted 02.23.2009 | Chicago

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Illinois companies cut their payrolls for a seventh straight month and state unemployment jumped to 15-year high in December, government figures show....

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Economic Crisis: Lay Offs Highest Since '01

Crain's Chicago Business | Monée Fields-White | Posted 01.18.2009 | Chicago

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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...

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Illinois Unemployment Rate Hits 7.3%

AP | Posted 12.21.2008 | Chicago

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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 ...

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Illinois Unemployment Rising

Chicago Tribune | James P. Miller | Posted 10.19.2008 | Chicago

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Unemployment in Illinois continued to track well above the national average in August, as the number of job-seekers climbed and employers continued to...

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