The unemployment rate in the Chicago metropolitan area continued to surge in June, reaching 11.3 percent, up from 6.9 percent a year earlier and the highest level since July of 1983, the Illinois Department of Employment Security said Thursday.
The rate is up from 10.7 percent in May and from 9.9 percent in April. It exceeds the state's 10.3 percent rate and the nation's 9.5 percent rate.
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The Chicago area lost 184,300 jobs--the biggest decline--as jobs dropped in 11 of the 12 metropolitan areas in the state. The second biggest drop was in the Lake County area, which lost 17,800 jobs, followed by the Rockford area, which lost 5,900, and the Peoria area, which lost 5,100. The only metropolitan area to report an increase in jobs was Champaign-Urbana, which added 1,400 jobs.
Dispatches from Chicago's south side.
Thursday, July 23, 2009
Unemployment in Chicago area reaches 11.3 percent
Well on top of that editorial by Ald. Brookins, well the Sun-Times offers the unemployment rate in the Chicagoland area:
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