SPRINGFIELD – The Illinois economy added 18,800 jobs during June as the unemployment rate fell to 4.5 percent, the lowest it has been since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. That…
SPRINGFIELD – The statewide unemployment rate in Illinois fell three-tenths of a percentage point in March, to 7.1 percent, as the daily count of new COVID-19 cases and the case positivity…
The number of nonfarm jobs decreased over-the-year in all 14 Illinois metropolitan areas in November, according to preliminary data released Dec. 23 by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics…
SPRINGFIELD – The unemployment rate in Illinois reached a staggering 16.4 percent in April, the highest rate recorded since the modern system of tracking joblessness began in 1976,…
SPRINGFIELD – More than half a million Illinois workers have filed first-time unemployment claims in the four weeks since the COVID-19 outbreak first hit the labor market. Economists…
SPRINGFIELD – The state reported 3,526 new confirmed or probable cases of COVID-19 Thursday, April 1, the highest one-day total since Feb. 5. That drove the seven-day rolling average…
SPRINGFIELD — Three Republican lawmakers on Friday, Dec. 4, put pressure on Illinois Department of Employment Security officials to answer for the backlog in unemployment claims and…
SPRINGFIELD — In the week ending April 11, another 141,049 Illinoisans filed initial unemployment claims, bringing the total number during the latest four weeks of the novel coronavirus…
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