03/21/2014
Brendan Bond
Reboot Illinois
Every month the Illinois Department of Employment Security (IDES) rolls out unemployment figures for Illinois towns and cities. While the January 2014 figures were delayed in being released, we now have the ten cities in Illinois with the lowest unemployment rates. For some perspective, the current unemployment rate for the state of Illinois is 8.7 percent. Some cities have unemployment rates much higher than that. But not the cities below. They’re doing swell.
Jobs, jobs and more jobs is one of the themes of this election year. Read more about jobs-related content on our website. We’ve got some links for your viewing pleasure below:
Check out the ten worst cities for unemployment in Illinois in January
The minimum wage hike train is starting to roll in the Illinois legislature
Which companies in Illinois are growing?
House Speaker Mike Madigan wants a millionaires’ tax for school funding
Here are video highlights of Madigan’s press conference about the millionaire tax.
Brendan Bond is an editorial assistant at Reboot Illinois. He is a graduate of Loyola University, where he majored in journalism. Brendan takes a look each day at the Land of Lincoln Lowdown and it’s often pretty low. He examines the property tax rates that drive Illinoisans insane. You can find Reboot on Facebook at and on Twitter @rebootillinois. His email is Brendan.Bond@rebootillinois.com.