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CHICAGO (AP) — Illinois' unemployment rate dropped to 6.1 percent in January. It was the 10th monthly decrease in the past 11 months. The state Department of Employment Security said Thursday in its monthly statewide unemployment report that the jobless rate fell from 6...

Taking a look at June’s unemployment numbers for Illinois’ various counties and cities can give us an idea of where we stack up compared to the rest of the state. The quick headline is that it's still bad, but could be worse. For example, among metro areas around the state, Reboot Illinois reports that the employment rate for Rockford (Winnebago and Boone Counties combined) stands at 8... Read Mor

Jim Anderson -- Illinois Radio Network The unemployment rate is down sharply in Illinois, but there are some quirks in the new report out Thursday. For April, unemployment was 7.9 percent, down from 8.4 percent in March. That may be the biggest one-month decline in the rate ever, says Jay Rowell, head of the Illinois Department of Employment Security...

Sorry to end the week on a down note, but there is bad news to report on the jobs picture in Pat Quinn's Illinois. The month of January marked two straight months of job losses in the Land of Lincoln. After losing about 4,000 jobs in December, Illinois dropped almost 28,000 more in January: As the Illinois Policy Institute points out: The number of payroll jobs today is the same as it was in Novem