The August BLS jobs report shows Illinois is down 8,000 manufacturing jobs on the year, giving the state the worst manufacturing job losses in the region, and a summer workforce contraction totaling 100,000 people.
Years of job-killing policies in Illinois have pushed residents out of the state, while nearby Michigan has taken an alternate, pro-growth approach to turn it around.
Illinois stands out in the industrial Midwest for its skewed government-to-manufacturing-jobs ratio.
So far, only two food carts have been licensed to sell tamales in Chicago.
August IDES report shows 22,000 people dropped out of the workforce, and 4,400 manufacturing jobs were lost.
City officials in Chicago and across the state are crushing a pillar of the culinary community. But food trucks are fighting back.
A new ordinance would ban all cars with autonomous technology from Chicago, preventing Uber from expanding the fleet of self-driving vehicles it recently introduced in Pittsburgh.
One in every 1,100 homes in Illinois is in bank-owned foreclosure.
Illinois House Speaker Mike Madigan’s current tax-and-spend policies and protection of special interests stand in contrast to the speaker’s past statements declaring the need for economic growth and opportunity.
“When I was a kid this is what I used to make with my grandmother. She would always make two batches of tamales: one batch [to] sell and one batch for family. For family there would be a lot more meat, a lot more flavor, a lot more lard. There would be nothing from a...
Enjoy Life Foods relocates manufacturing and distribution facility from Chicago suburbs to Indiana.
The Land of Lincoln’s out-migration crisis is the most severe in the region and worsening over time.
Illinois lags the rest of the Midwest in recovering from the recession.
August records summer-high job losses, including 495 in manufacturing.