CHICAGO — Illinois' unemployment rate continued to climb last month, rising to its highest level in more than a quarter century, officials repor...
AP | Posted 08.16.2009 | Chicago
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...
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...
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...
Chicago Sun-Times | Cheryl V. Jackson and Francine Knowles | Posted 12.22.2008 | Chicago
Jerry Gillespie is a carpenter. But the 31-year-old Chicago man has hit wall after wall in an effort to find work. Unemployed for the last six mont...
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 ...
AP | Posted 11.19.2009 | Chicago