Not Seasonally Adjusted Unemployment Rates
Metropolitan Area
Nov.
2017
Nov.
2016
Over-the-Year Change
Bloomington
3.9%
4.6%
-0.7
Carbondale-Marion
4.5%
5.2%
-0.7
Champaign-Urbana
4.2%
4.7%
-0.5
Chicago-Naperville-Arlington Heights
4.8%
5.3%
-0.5
Danville
6.0%
6.7%
-0.7
Davenport-Moline-Rock Island, IA-IL
3.9%
4.8%
-0.9
Decatur
5.3%
6.0%
-0.7
Elgin
4.4%
4.9%
-0.5
Kankakee
5.0%
5.8%
-0.8
Lake-Kenosha, IL-WI
3.9%
4.6%
-0.7
Peoria
4.8%
5.9%
-1.1
Rockford
5.1%
6.0%
-0.9
Springfield
4.0%
4.4%
-0.4
St. Louis (IL-Section)
4.5%
5.1%
-0.6
Illinois Statewide
4.7%
5.2%
-0.5
* Data subject to revision.
CHICAGO–Unemployment rates decreased over-the-year in November in all of Illinois’s metropolitan areas, according to preliminary data released today by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) and...
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