August IDES report shows 22,000 people dropped out of the workforce, and 4,400 manufacturing jobs were lost.

Enjoy Life Foods relocates manufacturing and distribution facility from Chicago suburbs to Indiana.

The manufacturing company plans to reduce operations in Illinois.

Deere & Co. plans to lay off 115 manufacturing workers by late September.

Manufacturers are struggling with unfavorable global conditions, and Illinois’ anti-growth policies are only hurting the state’s industrial sector more.

Manufacturing weakness driving Illinois unemployment up; dropout and out-migration driving unemployment down.

Illinois’ weak manufacturing recovery from the Great Recession has led to the Land of Lincoln’s having the worst unemployment rate among nearby and neighboring Rust Belt states.

The month of June saw Illinois continue to lose jobs, as the state’s long-term economic woes continue to push workers out of the state.

Moline, Ill.-based agricultural equipment maker will cut more than 100 jobs by September; Illinois’ manufacturing workers continue to struggle for job opportunities enjoyed by their counterparts in the region.

Illinois’ workers’ compensation system has not evolved to meet the modern workplace, and is instead working more for special interests than employers and employees.