Today’s Headlines 6/23/2011
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— Unemployment in the Chicago-Joliet-Naperville area was 9.8 percent in May, a drop from its 10.4 percent level last year.
The figure was released Thursday by the Illinois Department of Employment Security.
State officials say unemployment in all 12 Illinois metro areas dropped in May, and all but three of those regions added jobs or were unchanged.
The department says the biggest decreases last month were in Peoria, Rockford, Danville and the Kankakee-Bradley area.
Rockford remains the area with the highest unemployment rate at 10.7 percent. But that’s down from 14.2 percent a year earlier.
The Peoria area added 5,300 jobs over the past year as manufacturers such as Caterpillar Inc. continued to bounce back from the recession.
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