Unemployment rate increases The Illinois Department of Employment Security announced that the unemployment rate was unchanged at 4.8% in April. The national unemployment rate was 3.9% in April, up a percentage point from the previous month. The number of unemployed workers was 313,200, up 0.3% from the prior month, and up 17% over the same […]
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