On May 07, 2014
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Five companies may shed a combined 776 jobs in Illinois in coming months, according to state filings.
A portion of the losses are at OfficeMax Inc., which is laying off 137 people in Ottawa, about 84 miles southwest of downtown Chicago, according to the state’s Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act, or WARN,report for April.
OfficeMax, formerly based in Naperville, merged with Boca Raton, Fla.-based Office Depot Inc. last year. The combined company, called Office Depot, is now headquartered in Florida. Officials previously said they would start moving 1,600 jobs out of Illinois last month.