SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (WCIA) – Last week, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics and the Illinois Department of Employment Security released February data that indicates a rise in nonfarm jobs in several metropolitan areas since the previous year. They found that nonfarm jobs went up in 11 metropolitan areas and decreased in three since Feb. 2023. The […]
Unemployment rates have slightly increased across all 14 metropolitan areas in Illinois since last February, according to data released Thursday by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics and the Illinois Department of Employment Security. The annual unemployment change was the highest in the Chicago-Naperville-Arlington Heights metropolitan area, which includes Evanston, rising from a 4.3% unemployment.